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Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

By : EDRICK GOAD
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

By: EDRICK GOAD

Overview of this book

Automating server tasks allows administrators to repeatedly perform the same, or similar, tasks over and over again. With PowerShell scripts, you can automate server tasks and reduce manual input, allowing you to focus on more important tasks. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will show several ways for a Windows administrator to automate and streamline his/her job. Learn how to automate server tasks to ease your day-to-day operations, generate performance and configuration reports, and troubleshoot and resolve critical problems. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will introduce you to the advantages of using Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell. Each recipe is a building block that can easily be combined to provide larger and more useful scripts to automate your systems. The recipes are packed with examples and real world experience to make the job of managing and administrating Windows servers easier. The book begins with automation of common Windows Networking components such as AD, DHCP, DNS, and PKI, managing Hyper-V, and backing up the server environment. By the end of the book you will be able to use PowerShell scripts to automate tasks such as performance monitoring, reporting, analyzing the environment to match best practices, and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing Windows Server Update Services


Microsoft Windows Server Update Services is a built-in feature of Server 2012 that can be installed in any Server 2012 edition. The update service provides simplified, centralized management of updates in your environment. This feature inventories the updates installed on computers, downloads the updates, and then distributes them to clients as defined by the administrator.

For WSUS to function, two steps are needed: install the Update Services feature, and perform the initial configuration, which is referred to as the postinstall phase. This postinstall phase finalizes the WSUS installation by configuring the database and location to store the updates.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, we will be using a domain-joined server with access to the Internet. Once the Update Services feature is installed, we will perform the initial configuration of the system and perform the initial update synchronization. All of the tasks shown will be performed locally...