Windows Server Administration

This chapter will show you some Windows administrative tasks that naturally occur. While the Internet Information Services (IIS) or Desired State Configuration (DSC) cannot be fully used with PowerShell Core at the time of writing, it is nevertheless important to know how to access these features from within PowerShell Core.

Expect to see a lot of the WindowsCompatibility module in this chapter, as this is your anchor to the legacy world running Windows PowerShell.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• File services management
• Domain services management
• IIS management – deploying and configuring
• IIS management – creating a website
• Configuring Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
• Using Docker with Hyper-V containers
• Remote Desktop Services (RDS) deployment
• Integrating DSC configuration into a Windows Server image

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