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Windows Server 2016 Cookbook
Windows Server 2016 Cookbook

Windows Server 2016 Cookbook: Sauté your way through more than 100 hands-on recipes designed to prepare any server administrator to work with Windows Server 2016

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Windows Server 2016 Cookbook

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Key benefits

  • Get the first book on the market to unleash the power of Windows Server 2016, which improves the lives of thousands of enterprise users
  • Be the first to leverage the advent of Containers and Nano Server on Windows Server 2016, which utilizes the resources efficiently and increases productivity.
  • This practical, recipe-based approach helps you to delivering global-scale cloud services into your infrastructure using Windows Server 2016

Description

This hands-on Cookbook is stuffed full of practical recipes that will help you handle the essential administrative tasks in Windows Server 2016. You’ll start by familiarizing yourself with the look and feel of Windows Server 2016, and will then learn how to navigate through some daily tasks using the graphical interface. You will see how to compose optimal Group Policies and facilitate task automation with PowerShell 5.0 scripting. We will also take a look at the functions available to provide remote network access to your traveling users, and explore the much anticipated Nano Server and Hyper-V built-in integration support that is brand new in Windows Server 2016. By the end of this book, you will know how to take your Windows Server 2016-powered server and turn it into any common infrastructure role that might be required in your company.

Who is this book for?

This book is for system administrators and IT professionals with experience in Windows Server 2012 R2 environments who are looking to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to manage and maintain the core infrastructure required for a Windows Server 2016 environment.

What you will learn

  • Build the infrastructure required for a successful Windows network
  • Navigate the new Server 2016 interface efficiently
  • Implement solid networking and security practices into your Windows Server environment
  • Design your own PKI and start issuing certificates today
  • Explore the brand-new Nano Server functionality
  • Enable nested virtualization on Hyper-V and Server
  • Connect your remote laptops back to the corporate network using Microsoft s own remote access technologies, including DirectAccess
  • Provide a centralized point for users to access applications and data by configuring Remote Desktop Services
  • Compose optimal Group Policies
  • Facilitate task automation with PowerShell 5.0 scripting

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Publication date : Nov 21, 2016
Length: 494 pages
Edition : 1st
Language : English
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Length: 494 pages
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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
1. Learning the Interface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Core Infrastructure Tasks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Security and Networking Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Working with Certificates Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Internet Information Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Remote Access Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Remote Desktop Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Monitoring and Backup Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Group Policy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. File Services and Data Control Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Nano Server and Server Core Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Working with Hyper-V Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Started reading it and already finding the recipes useful. Hands on...
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Amazon Customer Jul 28, 2017
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Thick book due to big fonts, pictures and lots of empty white space per page. Very little detail. Not for IT pros needing in depth info on 2016. Im hoping "Server 2016 Unleashed" will be better when released.
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