To get the most out of this book

All the technologies and features that are discussed in the recipes of this book are included with Windows Server 2019! As long as you have access to the operating system installer disk and either a piece of hardware or a virtualization environment where you can spin up a new virtual machine, you will be able to install the operating system and follow along with our lessons.

Many of the tasks that we are going to accomplish together require a certain amount of base networking and infrastructure to be configured in order to fully test the technologies that we are working with. The easiest method for working through all of these recipes will be to have access to a Hyper-V server upon which you can build multiple virtual machines that run Windows Server 2019. With this available, you will be able to build recipe upon recipe as we move through setting up the core infrastructure tasks, and then build upon those same servers in the later recipes.

Building a baseline lab network running Server 2019 for the Microsoft infrastructure roles such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, certificates, and web/file services will help you tremendously as you move throughout this book. If you are not familiar with building out a lab, do not be dismayed. Many of the recipes included here will help with building the structure of the lab.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code via the GitHub repository (link available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

Download the example code files

You can download the example code files for this book from your account at www.packt.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit www.packtpub.com/support and register to have the files emailed directly to you.

You can download the code files by following these steps:

1. Log in or register at www.packt.com.
2. Select the Support tab.
3. Click on Code Downloads.
4. Enter the name of the book in the Search box and follow the onscreen instructions.

Once the file is downloaded, please make sure that you unzip or extract the folder using the latest version of:

1. WinRAR/7-Zip for Windows
2. Zipeg/iZip/UnRarX for Mac
3. 7-Zip/PeaZip for Linux

The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Windows-Server-2019-Cookbook-Second-Edition. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!