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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Thomas Lee
Book Image

Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Thomas Lee

Overview of this book

Windows Server 2019 is the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship server operating system. It also comes with PowerShell Version 5.1 and offers a number of additional features that IT professionals will find useful. This book is designed to help you learn how to use PowerShell and manage the core roles, features, and services of Windows Server 2019. You will begin by creating a PowerShell Administrative Environment that features updated versions of PowerShell, the Windows Management Framework, .NET Framework, and third-party modules. Next, you will learn to use PowerShell to set up and configure Windows Server 2019 networking and understand how to manage objects in the Active Directory (AD) environment. The book will also guide you in setting up a host to utilize containers and deploying containers. Further along, you will be able to implement different mechanisms to achieve Desired State Configuration. The book will then get you up to speed with Azure infrastructure, in addition to helping you get to grips with setting up virtual machines (VMs), websites, and file share on Azure. In the concluding chapters, you will be able to deploy some powerful tools to diagnose and resolve issues with Windows Server 2019. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with a number of useful tips and tricks to automate your Windows environment with PowerShell.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Third Edition
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introduction


Understanding how your infrastructure is being utilized is a key task for many IT pros today, and has been a challenge since the earliest days of computing. Windows NT 3.1 came with a marvelous tool, Performance Monitor (perfmon), that allowed you to see what the OS and applications are doing and what resources they are consuming. The Windows NT 3.1 Resource Kit even included an entire book on how to use perfmon and the various performance counters.

In addition to understanding how your individual servers are performing, you need to know what they are actually doing in terms of user work. Knowing, for example, the usage of printers is useful for capacity-planning purposes.

This chapter shows you how you can use PowerShell to obtain and display performance information and usage information using a variety of techniques, including cmdlets, WMI, and more.

Windows Server 2019 contains a subsystem known as Performance Logging and Alerting (PLA). PLA enables you to obtain performance...