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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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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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

Introduction

Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform and is a competitor to Amazon's Amazon Web Services and other public cloud providers, Azure provides you with access to a huge range of features. Organizations can literally move their entire on-premises infrastructure into the cloud.

Azure features come from three levels:

  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS)
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)

IaaS is, in effect, an instant computing infrastructure that you can provision, manage, and use over the internet or via a private network connection. IaaS includes the basic computing infrastructure components (servers, storage, networking, firewalls, and security), plus the physical plant that's required to run these components (power, air conditioning, and so on). In an IaaS environment, the servers are all Azure virtual machines (effectively Hyper-V VMs) and interact with the networking, security, and storage components.

PaaS is a complete deployment environment...

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