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You're reading from Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787122048

Length 660 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

PowerShell

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Thomas Lee

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. What's New in PowerShell and Windows Server FREE CHAPTER

2. Implementing Nano Server

3. Managing Windows Updates

4. Managing Printers

5. Managing Server Backup

6. Managing Performance

7. Troubleshooting Windows Server 2016

8. Managing Windows Networking Services

9. Managing Network Shares

10. Managing Internet Information Server

11. Managing Hyper-V

12. Managing Azure

13. Using Desired State Configuration

Backup and perform bare metal recovery

The Bare metal recovery (BMR) is the process of restoring a backup onto a new machine. Suppose your file server, FS1, has a catastrophic failure and has to be replaced by a new server computer. To get this new host up and running, you could manually run through the setup of the OS, add relevant print drivers, re-define the printers, and then restore the data. Or you could just do a BMR from a backup. This recipe shows how to do bare metal recovery using the PowerShell cmdlets in the WindowsServerBackup module and then the bare metal recovery feature of Windows Setup.

Getting ready

To enable you to see BMR in action on a server, you must first install the Windows backup feature loaded...

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Authors (1)

Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee is a consultant/trainer/writer based in the UK and has been in the IT business since the late 1960s. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, Thomas joined ComShare where he was a systems programmer building the Commander II time-sharing operating system, a forerunner of today's cloud computing paradigm. In the mid-1970s, he moved to ICL to work on the VME/K operating system. After a sabbatical in 1980/81, he joined Accenture, leaving in 1988 to run his own consulting and training business, which is still active today. Thomas holds numerous Microsoft certifications, including MCSE (one of the first in the world) and later versions, MCT (25 years), and was awarded Microsoft's MVP award 17 times.

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