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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

Implementing a web-based DSC pull server


Deploying a DSC web-based pull server is more complex than deploying an SMB pull server. Deploying the SMB-based pull server is simple: just create the two shares that you need and place the relevant files on that share. The web server approach requires you to also load IIS, install the DSC service, and configure the service, as well as place the MOF files, resources, and any relevant checksums on the web server. Of course, in both cases, you need to configure each node's LCM.

You deploy a web-based pull server to provide a pull client with both resources and configuration MOF files. Unlike an SMB-based pull server, a web-based pull server also provides reporting capabilities, enabling a pull client to report the status back to the reporting server.

Reporting is not available using an SMB-based pull server. To simplify the creation of a web-based DSC pull server, you can use the xPSDesiredStateConfiguration module DSC resource. You download this resource...

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