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You're reading from Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787122048

Length 660 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

PowerShell

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Thomas Lee

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. What's New in PowerShell and Windows Server

2. Implementing Nano Server FREE CHAPTER

3. Managing Windows Updates

4. Managing Printers

5. Managing Server Backup

6. Managing Performance

7. Troubleshooting Windows Server 2016

8. Managing Windows Networking Services

9. Managing Network Shares

10. Managing Internet Information Server

11. Managing Hyper-V

12. Managing Azure

13. Using Desired State Configuration

Configuring IP addressing

Most IT pros are very familiar with setting and using the Windows Control Panel, and more lately the Windows Settings to configure a system's IP configuration (IP address, subnet mask, default gateway and DNS server) and to change a statically configured system to one that gets its configuration from DHCP. Savvy admins also were able to use the network shell, Netsh.exe to set the IP configuration details. In this recipe, we show how you do it with PowerShell and native cmdlets.

Getting ready

You run this recipe on server DC2. Server DC2 is a newly installed VM (or physical machine) whose NICs are default to DHCP. When DC2 boots up, it attempts to contact the DHCP server for IP address configuration...

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Authors (1)

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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