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Book Description
Efficiently manage and administer enterprise environments using Microsoft Windows Server 2019
Key Features
- Leverage Windows Server 2019 to improve enterprise workflow efficiency and increase productivity
- Deliver enterprise-grade cloud services that can be applied in your infrastructure
- Get up and running with PowerShell and the all-new Hyper-V improvements
Book Description
Do you want to get up and running with essential administrative tasks in Windows Server 2019?
This second edition of the Windows Server 2019 Cookbook is packed with practical recipes that will help you do just that.
The book starts by taking you through the basics that you need to know to get a Windows Server operating system working, before teaching you how to navigate through daily tasks using the upgraded graphical user interface (GUI). You'll then learn how to compose an optimal Group Policy and perform task automation with PowerShell scripting. As you advance, you'll get to grips with faster app innovation, improved Windows security measures, and hybrid cloud environments. After you've explored the functions available to provide remote network access to your users, you'll cover the new Hyper-V enhancements. Finally, this Windows Server book will guide you through practical recipes relating to Azure integration and important tips for how to manage a Windows Server environment seamlessly.
By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with Windows Server 2019 essentials and have the skills you need to configure Windows services and implement best practices for securing a Windows Server environment.
What you will learn
- Get up and running with Windows Server 2019's new features
- Install, configure, and administer Windows Server 2019 effectively
- Configure the server to host any enterprise application
- Discover ways to manage a server without a GUI
- Safeguard your virtual machines in the event of server failure
- Explore new ways to integrate Windows Server with Microsoft Azure
- Deploy Windows containers using Docker
Who this book is for
This Windows Server 2019 book is for system administrators and IT professionals who have basic experience in Windows environments and are interested in acquiring the skills and knowledge needed to manage and maintain the core infrastructure required for a Windows Server 2019 environment.
Table of Contents
- Windows Server 2019 Cookbook Second Edition
- Why subscribe?
- Contributors
- About the authors
- About the reviewer
- Packt is searching for authors like you
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Learning the Interface
- Shutting down or restarting the server
- Launching Administrative Tools
- Using WinKey + X for quick admin tasks
- Using the search function to launch applications quickly
- Managing remote servers from a single pane with Server Manager
- Using PowerShell to accomplish any function in Windows Server
- Installing a role or feature
- Administering Server 2019 from a Windows 10 machine
- Managing your servers through the Windows Admin Center
- Identifying useful keyboard shortcuts in Server 2019
- Setting your PowerShell Execution Policy
- Building and executing your first PowerShell script
- Searching for PowerShell cmdlets with Get-Help
- Chapter 2: Core Infrastructure Tasks
- Configuring a combination Domain Controller, DNS server, and DHCP server
- Adding a second DC
- Organizing your computers with Organizational Units
- Creating an A or AAAA record in DNS
- Creating and using a CNAME record in DNS
- Creating a DHCP scope to assign addresses to computers
- Creating a DHCP reservation for a specific server or resource
- Pre-staging a computer account in Active Directory
- Using PowerShell to create a new Active Directory user
- Using PowerShell to run commands on another server
- Chapter 3: Networking
- Using Windows Firewall with Advanced Security to block unnecessary traffic
- Multi-homing Windows Server 2019
- Adding a static route to the Windows routing table
- Using dynamic BGP routing in your Windows routing table
- Using Telnet and Test-NetConnection to test a connection and network flow
- Using the pathping command to trace network traffic
- Setting up NIC Teaming
- Renaming and domain joining
- Chapter 4: Working with Certificates
- Setting up the first Certification Authority server in a network
- Building a subordinate Certification Authority server
- Creating a certificate template to prepare for issuing machine certificates to your clients
- Publishing a certificate template to allow enrolment
- Using MMC to request a new certificate
- Using the web interface to request a new certificate
- Using PowerShell to request a new certificate
- Configuring Autoenrollment to issue certificates to all domain-joined systems
- Renewing your root certificate
- Revoking a certificate
- Chapter 5: Internet Information Services
- Installing the Web Server role with PowerShell
- Launching your first website
- Changing the port on which your website runs
- Adding encryption to your website
- Using a Certificate Signing Request to acquire your SSL certificate
- Using Let's Encrypt to acquire your SSL certificate
- Moving an SSL certificate from one server to another
- Rebinding your renewed certificates automatically
- Hosting multiple websites on your IIS server
- Using host headers to manage multiple websites on a single IP address
- Chapter 6: Remote Access
- DirectAccess planning questions and answers
- Configuring DirectAccess, a VPN, or a combination of the two
- Pre-staging Group Policy Objects to be used by DirectAccess
- Enhancing the security of DirectAccess by requiring certificate authentication
- Building your Network Location Server on its own system
- Enabling Network Load Balancing on your DirectAccess servers
- Adding a VPN to your existing DirectAccess server
- Replacing your expiring IP-HTTPS certificate
- Reporting on DirectAccess and VPN connections
- Chapter 7: Remote Desktop Services
- Basics of an RDS environment
- Building a single server RDS environment
- Adding an additional RDSH server to your RDS environment
- Installing applications on an RDSH server
- Disabling the redirection of local resources
- Shadowing another session in RDS
- Installing a printer driver to use with redirection
- Removing an RD Session Host server from use for maintenance
- Publishing WordPad with RemoteApp
- Adding support for OpenGL and OpenCL applications
- Chapter 8: Monitoring and Backup
- Using Server Manager as a quick monitoring tool
- Using the new Task Manager to its full potential
- Configuring a full system backup using Windows Server Backup
- Recovering data from a Windows backup file
- Using IP Address Management to keep track of your used IP addresses
- Checking for viruses and adding ransomware protection
- Chapter 9: System Insights
- Chapter 10: Group Policy
- Creating and assigning a new Group Policy Object
- Mapping network drives with Group Policy
- Redirecting the Documents folder to a network share
- Creating a VPN connection with Group Policy
- Creating a printer connection with Group Policy
- Using Group Policy to enforce an internet proxy server
- Viewing the settings currently enabled inside a GPO
- Viewing the GPOs currently assigned to a computer
- Backing up and restoring GPOs
- Working with WMI filters to assign GPOs
- Plugging in ADMX and ADML templates
- Chapter 11: File Services and Data Control
- Enabling Distributed File System and creating a Namespace
- Configuring Distributed File System Replication
- Creating an iSCSI target on your server
- Configuring an iSCSI initiator connection
- Configuring Storage Spaces
- Turning on data deduplication
- Setting up Windows Server 2019 work folders
- Configuring a Scale-Out File Server
- Chapter 12: Server Core
- Chapter 13: Working with Hyper-V
- Chapter 14: Containers and Docker
- Chapter 15: Desired State Configuration and Automation
- Chapter 16: Hardening Your Infrastructure
- Using Group Policy to enforce a password policy
- The Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit
- Using Desired State Configuration to enforce default configurations
- Disabling outdated services and protocols
- Delegating Active Directory permissions
- Enabling the Active Directory Recycle Bin
- Using System Monitor to identify security issues
- Windows Server Update Services
- Using BitLocker for drive encryption
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