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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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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

Installing roles and features

Installing the operating system gets your foot in the door, so to speak, using your server as a server. However, you can't actually do anything useful with your server at this point. On a client desktop system, the base operating system is generally all that is needed in order to start working and consuming data. The server's job is to serve up that data in the first place, and, until you tell the server what its purpose is in life, there really isn't anything useful happening in that base operating system. This is where we need to utilize roles and features. Windows Server 2019 contains many different options for roles. A role is just what the name implies: the installation of a particular role onto a server defines that server's role in the network. In other words, a role gives a server some purpose in life. A feature, on the...

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