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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789808537
Length 542 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Preface 1. Establishing a PowerShell Administrative Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Windows Networking 3. Managing Windows Active Directory 4. Managing Windows Storage 5. Managing Shared Data 6. Managing Windows Update 7. Managing Printing 8. Introducing Containers 9. Managing Windows Internet Information Server 10. Managing Desired State Configuration 11. Managing Hyper-V 12. Managing Azure 13. Managing Performance and Usage 14. Troubleshooting Windows Server Index

Creating computer target groups

With the recipes so far in this chapter, you have set up a WSUS Server and created a GPO to configure the Windows Update Client on your computers. The next step is to create target groups—groups of computers you plan to use when targeting WSUS updates.

In any organization, different groups of hosts can have different update requirements. Your Windows client hosts run software such as Microsoft Office that is rarely seen on a server. Your mission critical servers might require a separate testing and sign-off process for updates that are approved for use.

For efficient management of updates, you define target groups (for example, domain controllers (DCs), SQL Servers, and so on) and then define the computers in the target group. In this recipe, you create a target group for DCs (that is, DC1, DC2).

Getting ready

This recipe runs in the WSUS1 WSUS server. In the preceding recipes in this chapter, you have set up the WSUS server, configured WSUS updates, and...

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