This is the code repository for Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook 5th Edition, published by Packt.
Powerful ways to automate, manage and administrate Windows Server 2022 using PowerShell 7.2
This cookbook will help you gain command of PowerShell 7.2 to manage the core roles, features, and services within Windows Server 2022. Thomas Lee provides an expansive view of the functionality made possible in PowerShell’s latest major release.
- Perform key admin tasks on Windows Server
- Keep your organization secure with JEA, group policies, logs, and Windows Defender
- Use the .NET Framework for administrative scripting
- Manage data and storage on Windows, including disks, volumes, and filesystems
- Report system performance using built-in cmdlets and WMI to obtain single measurements
- Apply the right tools and modules to troubleshoot and debug Windows Server
- Create, manage, and back up a second VM using the subnetwork in Azure
- Learn how to set up a VPN in Azure with PowerShell
- Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7
- Managing PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise
- Exploring .NET
- Managing Active Directory
- Managing Networking
- Implementing Enterprise Security
- Managing Storage
- Managing Shared Data
- Managing Printing
- Exploring Windows Containers
- Managing Hyper-V
- Debugging and Troubleshooting Windows Server
- Managing Window Server with Window Management Instrumentation (WMI)
- Managing Windows Update Services
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| Chapter | Software required | Link to the software | Hardware specifications | OS required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-14 | Windows 11 Pro or Enterprise | Download | Min 16GB of RAM or more preferred | Windows |
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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.