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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

Using DSC with PSGallery resources

In the Finding and installing DSC resources recipe, you downloaded a module, xWebAdministration, which contains a number of DSC resources. In this recipe, you use the resources in this module to create an IIS web application. You create and run this recipe from SRV1 to configure a web application on SRV2. You obtain the source files for the web application from DC1.

Getting ready

With this recipe, you configure IIS on SRV2 to support a simple web application—a similar application. To test this recipe, you need two source files, which you store on the ReskitApp share on your DC1 computer. The first, Index.Htm contains the following:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
<head>...

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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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