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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568457
Length 674 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7 2. Introducing PowerShell 7 FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploring Compatibility with Windows PowerShell 4. Using PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise 5. Exploring .NET 6. Managing Active Directory 7. Managing Networking in the Enterprise 8. Implementing Enterprise Security 9. Managing Storage 10. Managing Shared Data 11. Managing Printing 12. Managing Hyper-V 13. Managing Azure 14. Troubleshooting with PowerShell 15. Managing with Windows Management Instrumentation 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Introduction

Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. Both Windows Server 2022 and Windows 10 include Hyper-V as an option you can install, on all versions of Windows Server 2022, and the Enterprise, Professional, and Education editions of Windows 10.

Microsoft first released Hyper-V with Server 2008 and has improved it significantly with each successive version of Windows Server. Improvements include additional features, support for the latest hardware, and significantly increased scalability.

Hyper-V supports nested virtualization, the ability to run Hyper-V inside a Hyper-V VM. Nested virtualization has some good use cases, such as in training – for instance, giving each student a VM on a large blade containing the VMs needed for the course labs. Nested virtualization provides an additional layer of security that might be useful in multi-tenant scenarios.

Microsoft also ships a free version of Hyper-V, the Microsoft Hyper-V Server. The Hyper...

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