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Windows Server 2016 Cookbook

By : Jordan Krause
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Windows Server 2016 Cookbook

By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

This hands-on Cookbook is stuffed full of practical recipes that will help you handle the essential administrative tasks in Windows Server 2016. You’ll start by familiarizing yourself with the look and feel of Windows Server 2016, and will then learn how to navigate through some daily tasks using the graphical interface. You will see how to compose optimal Group Policies and facilitate task automation with PowerShell 5.0 scripting. We will also take a look at the functions available to provide remote network access to your traveling users, and explore the much anticipated Nano Server and Hyper-V built-in integration support that is brand new in Windows Server 2016. By the end of this book, you will know how to take your Windows Server 2016-powered server and turn it into any common infrastructure role that might be required in your company.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Windows Server 2016 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Configuring a full system backup using Windows Server Backup


Maintaining a good backup solution is so critical to administering a corporate server environment in today's IT world. There are limitless potential options for designing your particular backup plan, all the way from file copy backups to redundant servers sitting in hot standby mode.

While many third-party tools and technologies provide the capability to back up all of your servers simultaneously while retaining multiple previous versions of each, those tools are not always on the table because of cost and implementation complexity. Let's take a few minutes and familiarize ourselves with the built-in backup solution that Microsoft provides free of charge, right in the Server 2016 operating system.

Getting ready

We are logged in to our Server 2016 web server. We will be using the built-in Windows Server Backup tool in order to create a full image of this server.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to back up your Server 2016 using the...