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Windows Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838987190
Pages 650 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mark Henderson Mark Henderson
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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 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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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

Installing System Insights

Before System Insights can be used, it needs to be installed. System Insights is an extension of the Windows Admin Center and can be configured by either the Admin Center web UI or via PowerShell. In this recipe, we will look at both ways of installing the extension.

Getting ready

To install System Insights, you will need a working copy of the Windows Admin Center version 1909 or higher, and a Windows Server 2019 server you wish to monitor. We will be performing this recipe from the computer where Windows Admin Center was installed.

You can find the installation instructions for Windows Admin Center back in Chapter 1, Learning the interface, by reading the Managing your servers through the Windows Admin Center recipe.

Important

System Insights was added to Windows Server 2019 in version 1903 (also called the May 2019 update). At the time of writing this book, the Windows Server 2019 evaluations that Microsoft offers free of charge are older...

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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 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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