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Windows Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from Windows Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838987190

Pages 650 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Authors (2):

Mark Henderson

Jordan Krause

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Learning the Interface

2. Chapter 2: Core Infrastructure Tasks

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

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Managing Server Core using remote MMC tools

Another powerful way to interact with servers that you are not logged in to, or that you cannot log in to in a traditional sense, such as Nano Server and Server Core, is to make use of the MMC tools from a remote system. By launching MMC and snapping in consoles, or by running the tools straight from the Administrative Tools folder and then specifying which server you want to interact with, you can continue with the centralized management mentality while making changes to systems you are not actively logged in to. This feature has actually existed in Windows Server for almost 20 years, but again it's not one that is used all that often. Let's test this out together.

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I just finished using a remote copy of Server Manager to install the DHCP role onto CORE01. Now I want to actually configure the DHCP service. Because the console of Server Core isn't going to allow me to simply log in and open the DHCP management...

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Authors (2)

Mark Henderson

Mark Henderson is a Site Reliability Engineer. He has worked for companies like Take 2 Games and Stack Overflow. He has Bachelor of Information Systems and over 13 years of experience in Windows administration, focussed on internet-facing applications and scaling enterprise applications. He works daily with containers, Azure, Amazon Web Services, Active Directory, IIS, SQL Server, and .NET. He lives in a quiet, peaceful beach town in Australia with his family, but has been working with small, medium and large American companies since 2015

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Jordan Krause

Jordan Krause has been an IT professional for more than 20 years and has received 9 Microsoft MVP awards for his work with Microsoft server and networking technologies. One of the world's first experts on Microsoft DirectAccess, he has a passion for helping companies find the best ways to enable a remote workforce. Committed to continuous learning, Jordan holds certifications as an MCSE, MCSA, and MCITP Enterprise Administrator, and has authored numerous books on Microsoft technologies. Jordan lives in beautiful West Michigan (USA), but works daily with companies around the world.

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