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Mastering Windows Server 2019

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Server 2019 The complete guide for IT professionals to install and manage Windows Server 2019 and deploy new capabilities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789804539
Length 524 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Windows Server 2019 FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing and Managing Windows Server 2019 3. Core Infrastructure Services 4. Certificates in Windows Server 2019 5. Networking with Windows Server 2019 6. Enabling Your Mobile Workforce 7. Hardening and Security 8. Server Core 9. Redundancy in Windows Server 2019 10. PowerShell 11. Containers and Nano Server 12. Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V 13. Assessments 14. Another Book You May Enjoy

Shielded VMs

If your day job doesn't include work with Hyper-V, it's possible that you have never heard of shielded VMs. The name does a pretty good job of explaining this technology at a basic level. If a VM is a virtual machine, then a shielded VM must be a virtual machine that is shielded or protected in some way, right?

A shielded VM is essentially a VM that is encrypted. Rather, the hard drive file itself (the VHDX) is encrypted, using BitLocker. It sounds simple, but there are some decent requirements for making this happen. In order for the BitLocker encryption to work properly, the VM is injected with a virtual Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip. TPMs are quickly becoming commonplace at a hardware level, but actually using them is still a mysterious black box to most administrators. Shielded VMs can also be locked down so that they can only run on healthy and...

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