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Extend the capabilities of your Windows environment

Improve the process reliability by using well defined PowerShell scripts

Full of examples, scripts, and real-world best practices

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Automating server tasks allows administrators to repeatedly perform the same, or similar, tasks over and over again. With PowerShell scripts, you can automate server tasks and reduce manual input, allowing you to focus on more important tasks. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will show several ways for a Windows administrator to automate and streamline his/her job. Learn how to automate server tasks to ease your day-to-day operations, generate performance and configuration reports, and troubleshoot and resolve critical problems. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will introduce you to the advantages of using Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell. Each recipe is a building block that can easily be combined to provide larger and more useful scripts to automate your systems. The recipes are packed with examples and real world experience to make the job of managing and administrating Windows servers easier. The book begins with automation of common Windows Networking components such as AD, DHCP, DNS, and PKI, managing Hyper-V, and backing up the server environment. By the end of the book you will be able to use PowerShell scripts to automate tasks such as performance monitoring, reporting, analyzing the environment to match best practices, and troubleshooting.

What you will learn

Streamline routine administration processes

Automate the implementation of entire AD infrastructures

Generate automatic reports that highlight unexpected changes in your environment

Monitor performance and report on system utilization in detailed graphs and analysis

Create and manage a reliable and redundant Hyper-V environment

Utilize the Best Practices Analyzer from Microsoft to ensure your environment is configured optimally

Manage the patch level of your enterprise

Utilize multiple protocols to share information in a heterogeneous environment

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Freon424 Jun 25, 2013

This was hands down, one of the best powershell books I've ever read. I cannot recommend this publication highly enough.

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Tom Jul 20, 2013

Not only does this book cover really practical use cases for automation with powershell, but it also gives some of the best insight into some of the new features of win 2012 server that I've seen, including BranchCache, Cifs high availability, new AD features, new file sharing features etc...Well worth a read!

Michael Wharton Jul 04, 2015

good book

Ed Williams Dec 03, 2014

Just got the KINDLE version of this book, it's BEAUTIFUL. I can't tell you how many kindle books for the Kindle on PC have horrible black and white grainy pictures with too small print that you can't expand. This one has all the colors (including the different PowerShell colorings, vivid screen captures and all. The First Kindle book for PC that I actually like!

mArs-kaOs Mar 25, 2017

Great book! Informative, practical guide, explicitly coded for real-world, administrative tasks!Would love to see same book updated for Windows Server 2012 R2 release!

Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook: If you work on a daily basis with Windows Server 2012, this book will make life easier by teaching you the skills to automate server tasks with PowerShell scripts, all delivered in recipe form for rapid implementation.

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