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Windows Server 2019 Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2019 Cookbook Over 100 recipes to effectively configure networks, manage security, and administer workloads

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838987190
Length 650 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
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Mark Henderson Mark Henderson
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Learning the Interface 2. Chapter 2: Core Infrastructure Tasks FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Networking 4. Chapter 4: Working with Certificates 5. Chapter 5: Internet Information Services 6. Chapter 6: Remote Access 7. Chapter 7: Remote Desktop Services 8. Chapter 8: Monitoring and Backup 9. Chapter 9: System Insights 10. Chapter 10: Group Policy 11. Chapter 11: File Services and Data Control 12. Chapter 12: Server Core 13. Chapter 13: Working with Hyper-V 14. Chapter 14: Containers and Docker 15. Chapter 15: Desired State Configuration and Automation 16. Chapter 16: Hardening Your Infrastructure 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up NIC Teaming

Teaming your network cards basically means installing two NICs onto the same server, plugging them both into the same network, and joining them together in a team. This gives you NIC redundancy in case of a failure, and redundancy is always a great thing! Sounds simple, right? Well, with Windows Server 2019, it actually is. This seemingly easy task has been challenging to put into practice with previous versions of the operating system, but with 2019, we can do this properly from a single interface and actually count on it to work as we expect it to.

Getting ready

We are going to set up a NIC team on a Windows Server 2019 machine. There are two NICs installed on this server, neither of which have yet been configured.

How to do it…

With the following steps, we can start teaming up:

  1. Open Server Manager and from the left-hand pane, go ahead and click on Local Server.
  2. Near the middle of the screen, you will see a section marked NIC...
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