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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Hyper-V 2016 is full of new features and updates. The second of our best-selling Hyper-V books, the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook has it all covered. Brimming with expert solutions and techniques, you?ll have everything you need to master virtualization and Hyper-V Manager. This Hyper-V book is designed to help advanced-level administrators benefit fully from the new Windows Server. With over 80 hands-on recipes, the Hyper-V Cookbook gives you tips, tricks and best practices to deploy, maintain and upgrade your virtual machines.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Configuring Windows Update for Hyper-V


During Windows development, Microsoft tries to find every risk and vulnerability to security breaches that can cause problems or downtime, such as external access, buffer overflows, blue screens, and system crashes. Even after the final version release, it is common to find these errors and bad functions in Windows. That's why Microsoft has a service named Windows Update, which provides update packages for all these problems that may arise in Hyper-V or any other component of Windows. It is also important to note that Microsoft has security teams that try to find security breaches before someone with bad intentions does. To make sure your servers are safe against all these threats, you need to make sure that they are up-to-date, with all updates installed.

The Nano Server installation option is a good option to reduce the number of updates to be installed once only the core components are used, but this doesn't mean that you don't need to install updates...