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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

Installing and authorizing a DHCP server


In most organizations, your servers are configured with a static IP address configuration, but client computers can get IP addresses from a DHCP server. In Windows (and with most Linux, Macintosh, and mobile phones), the operating system contains a DHCP client that communicates with a DHCP server to obtain an IP address configuration (including the IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, and DNS server IP address).

Installing and authorizing a DHCP server is easy and straightforward. You can use Server Manager to achieve this. Server Manager, though, is a GUI that's layered on top of PowerShell. Alternatively, as you see in this recipe, you can use PowerShell to automate the installation and configuration of DHCP.

Getting ready

This recipe installs the DHCP service and the related management tools on the DC1.Reskit.Org computer. DC1 is a domain controller in the Reskit.Org domain and is also a DNS server.

How to do it...

  1. Install the DHCP server feature...