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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

Installing features with Nano Server packages

Nano Server is a minimal implementation of a Windows Server 2016. You can customize it to include only the desired features and roles you require. You customize Nano Servers using the PackageManagement module along with the NanoServerPackage provider. The NanoServerPackage provider can search, download, or install packages that implement features and roles for Nano Server from an online gallery. This provider enables you to install useful server features and roles which you will explore in this recipe.

In Nano Server, packages replace the Add Roles & Features functionality in other editions of Windows. For example, if you need a web server, in other editions of Windows you would install the Web Server (IIS) role, but in Nano server, you would install the Microsoft-NanoServer-IIS-Package package. Instead of installing...

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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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