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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

Finding and installing DSC resources


A DSC resource is a specially crafted PowerShell module that enables DSC to configure various aspects of a node. The WindowsFeature DSC resource, for example, enables you to ensure that a particular node has a particular Windows feature installed. You can also specify that a particular Windows feature should not be present (in which case, DSC removes the feature if it were already installed).

As you saw in the Using DSC and built-in resources recipe, Microsoft does not ship very many DSC resources natively with Windows Server 2019. This is intentional—you use the PowerShell Gallery to get the DSC resources you need to do your job and not hundreds or thousands of DSC resources you never need.

The built-in DSC resources with Windows Server 2019 do not provide broad coverage, and are not sufficient for most organizations. For example, you can use the built-in File resource to copy the source files for a small web application onto a new server, as you did...

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