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Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787122048
Length 660 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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 IIS for SSL

Traffic between a web browser and a web server on the internet or even within a corporate intranet is open and can be intercepted. To avoid the data being compromised, you can make use of protocols built into your web browser and IIS to provide encryption as well as authentication.

In the 1990's, Netscape Communications developed a protocol that provided the necessary security, the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. SSL V1 was never commercially released, but SSL V2 and SSL V3 were developed, released, but are now deprecated as unsafe.

Transport Layer Security (TLS) was developed openly as the next version of SSL. TLS V1 is essentially SSL V3.1. In 2014, Google identified a serious vulnerability in both SSL V3 and TLS V1. That leaves TLS 2 as the best protocol to deploy and it is the only one installed by default with IIS in Windows Server 2013.

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