Windows Server 2012 automation with PowerShell cookbook / Ed Goad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goad, Ed.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Windows server.

Operating systems (Computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Cookbook with recipes based on real life examples.This book is written to assist the daily tasks for systems administrators, engineers, and architects working with Windows Server 2012.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Understanding PowerShell Scripting; Introduction; Managing security on PowerShell scripts; Creating and using functions; Creating and using modules; Creating and using PowerShell profiles; Passing variables to functions; Validating parameters in functions; Piping data to functions; Recording sessions with transcripts; Signing PowerShell scripts; Sending e-mail; Sorting and filtering; Using formatting to export numbers; Using formatting to export data views; Using jobs

Dealing with errors in PowerShellTuning PowerShell scripts for performance; Creating and using Cmdlets; Chapter 2: Managing Windows Network Services with PowerShell; Introduction; Configuring static networking; Installing domain controller; Configuring zones in DNS; Configuring DHCP scopes; Configuring DHCP server failover; Converting DHCP addresses to static; Building out a PKI environment; Creating AD users; Searching for and reporting on AD users; Finding expired computers in AD; Creating and e-mailing a superuser report; Chapter 3: Managing IIS with PowerShell; Introduction

Installing and configuring IISConfiguring IIS for SSL; Configuring a Central Certificate Store; Configuring IIS bindings; Configuring IIS logging; Managing log files; Configuring NLB across multiple servers; Monitoring load balancing across NLB nodes; Placing NLB nodes into maintenance; Configuring a development/staging/production site scheme; Promoting content in websites; Reporting on website access and errors; Chapter 4: Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell; Introduction; Installing and configuring Hyper-V; Configuring NUMA; Securing Hyper-V; Hyper-V networking; Creating virtual machines

Managing VM stateConfiguring VM networking; Configuring VM hardware; Quickly deploying VMs using a template; Managing and reporting on VM snapshots; Monitoring Hyper-V utilization and performance; Synchronizing networks between Hyper-V hosts; Hyper-V replication; Migrating VMs between hosts; Migrating VM storage between hosts; Using failover clustering to make VMs highly available; Chapter 5: Managing Storage with PowerShell; Introduction; Managing NTFS file permissions; Managing NTFS alternate streams; Configuring NTFS deduplication; Monitoring NTFS deduplication; Configuring storage pools

Reporting on storage poolsManaging file quotas; Chapter 6: Managing Network Shares with PowerShell; Introduction; Creating and securing CIFS shares; Accessing CIFS shares from PowerShell; Creating iSCSI target and virtual disk; Using a iSCSI disk; Configuring and using iSNS; Creating an NFS export; Mounting NFS exports; Making CIFS shares highly available; Configuring DFS and DFSR replication; Configuring BranchCache; Chapter 7: Managing Windows Updates with PowerShell; Introduction; Installing Windows Server Update Services; Configuring WSUS update synchronization

Configuring the Windows update client

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781299441019

1299441017

9781849689472

1849689474

OCLC:

840258575