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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

Creating an Azure website


Azure provides a number of ways in which you can create rich web and mobile applications in the cloud. You could set up your own virtual machines, install IIS, and add your web application. If your application needs to store data, you can create a separate SQL Server VM (or use Azure's SQL database PASS offering).

A simpler way is to create an Azure Web App. Azure Web Apps enabled you to build, deploy, and manage rich websites and web applications. You can use frameworks such as .NET, Node.js, PHP, and Python in these applications and use any database software that's appropriate to your needs. An Azure Web App can be simple static HTML sites, or rich multi-tier applications that run on both web and mobile platforms. You have a lot of choices.

In this recipe, you create a simple single-page static website. You upload the page via FTP. The PSFTP third-party module makes the upload simple.

Getting ready

You run this on CL1, which you set up for Azure in the Using PowerShell...