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Getting Started with Nano Server

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Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782175223

Length 406 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Charbel Nemnom

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Nano Server

2. Getting Started with Nano Server FREE CHAPTER

3. Deploying Nano Server in a Virtual Machine and on Physical Hardware

4. Deploying Hyper-V Cluster on Nano Server

5. Deploying, Managing, and Monitoring Nano Server with System Center 2016

6. Managing Nano Server with Windows PowerShell and Windows PowerShell DSC

7. Managing Nano Server with Third-Party Tools

8. Running Windows Server Containers and Hyper-V Containers on Nano Server

9. Troubleshooting Nano Server

10. Running Other Workloads on the Nano Server

Setup and boot event collection (SBEC)

In this section, we will dive into Setup and Boot Event Collection (SBEC) which is a new feature introduced in Windows Server 2016. This feature is designed to help you to collect events and troubleshoot a headless machine-like Nano Server either locally or in a remote datacenter where you don't have access to it. SBEC allows you to remotely view the setup and boot event off-box; in other words, before the OS even boots. This feature will stream all events off during the boot and setup process to a collector machine in your environment and save them into an ETL file.

You can watch the events in real time, as it's going through the setup and boot process, and watch all the events that are coming in. Thus, you can see any failures that might occur. That's useful, especially when it comes to troubleshooting problems that occur during the boot process.

We want to emphasize that this service is not for Nano Server only. It's possible to use this feature with...

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Authors (1)

Nemnom

Nemnom

Charbel Nemnom is a Cloud Solutions Architect for itnetX (Switzerland) AG and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for cloud and datacenter management. He has over 17 years of professional experience in IT. He works predominantly with the most recent versions of Windows Server, System Center, Microsoft Azure, and Azure Stack. Charbel has previously contributed to several books, all of which were published by Packt. He is Microsoft-, Cisco-, and PMI- certified and holds the following credentials: MCP, MCSA, MCTS, MCITP, MCS, MCSE, CCNP, ITIL, and PMP. You can follow him on Twitter at @CharbelNemnom.

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