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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789808537

Length 542 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

PowerShell

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Thomas Lee

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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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Authors (1)

Thomas Lee

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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