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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook, Fifth Edition

You're reading from Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook, Fifth Edition Powerful ways to automate, manage, and administrate Windows Server 2022 using PowerShell 7.2

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804614235

Length 714 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

PowerShell

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Thomas Lee

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7 FREE CHAPTER

2. Managing PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise

3. Exploring .NET

4. Managing Active Directory

5. Managing Networking

6. Implementing Enterprise Security

7. Managing Storage

8. Managing Shared Data

9. Managing Printing

10. Exploring Windows Containers

11. Managing Hyper-V

12. Debugging and Troubleshooting Windows Server

13. Managing Windows Server with Window Management Instrumentation (WMI)

14. Managing Windows Update Services

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

16. Index

Introduction

Keeping your client and server systems updated with patches and updates is an important task undertaken by Windows administrators. Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a feature of Windows Server 2019 that enables you to manage the download and distribution of updates to your organization’s computers.

In addition to updating Windows, WSUS enables you to manage patches and updates for various Microsoft software products. Thus, an update you download from Microsoft and distribute via WSUS may apply to Windows, Microsoft Office, and many other Microsoft software products.

This chapter shows how to install and configure the WSUS server and WSUS client computers. The recipes examine the management, approval, and installation of updates and how you can report on the status of update installation.

Note: Windows Update is one of the few Windows services you can not administer using PowerShell 7 directly. The design of the WSUS module means you can...

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Authors (1)

Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee is a consultant/trainer/writer based in the UK and has been in the IT business since the late 1960s. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, Thomas joined ComShare where he was a systems programmer building the Commander II time-sharing operating system, a forerunner of today's cloud computing paradigm. In the mid-1970s, he moved to ICL to work on the VME/K operating system. After a sabbatical in 1980/81, he joined Accenture, leaving in 1988 to run his own consulting and training business, which is still active today. Thomas holds numerous Microsoft certifications, including MCSE (one of the first in the world) and later versions, MCT (25 years), and was awarded Microsoft's MVP award 17 times.

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