Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook : Powerful Ways to Automate, Manage, and Administrate Windows Server 2022 Using PowerShell 7. 2 / Thomas Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Thomas, author.

Series:

Expert insight.

Expert insight

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Windows server.

Information technology--Management.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (715 pages)

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing Ltd., [2023]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Biography/History:

Lee Thomas: 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.

Summary:

The Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook is back with a new edition, featuring over 100 PowerShell recipes that will make your day-to-day work easier. This book is designed to help you learn how to install, configure and use PowerShell 7.2 effectively. To start with, we'll look at how to install and configure PowerShell 7.2, along with useful new features and optimizations, and show you how the PowerShell compatibility solution bridges the gap to older versions of PowerShell. We'll also be covering a wide range of fundamental and more advanced use cases, including how to create a VM and set up an Azure VPN, as well as looking at how to back up to Azure. As you progress, you'll explore topics such as using PowerShell to manage networking and DHCP in Windows Server, objects in Active Directory, Hyper-V, and Azure. We'll also take a closer look at WSUS, containers and see how to handle modules that are not directly compatible with PowerShell 7. Finally, you'll also learn how to use some powerful tools to diagnose and resolve issues with Windows Server. By the end of this PowerShell book, you'll know how to use PowerShell 7.2 to automate tasks on Windows Server 2022 with ease, helping your Windows environment to run faster and smoother.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7

Introduction

Systems used in the chapter

Installing PowerShell 7

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Installing PowerShell 7 Using Chocolatey

Using the PowerShell 7 Console

Building PowerShell 7 Profile Files

Exploring Installation Artifacts

Installing VS Code

Installing the Cascadia Code Font

Exploring PSReadLine

Chapter 2: Managing PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise

The system used in the chapter

Utilizing Windows PowerShell Compatibility

Installing RSAT

Exploring Package Management

Exploring PowerShellGet and the PS Gallery

Creating and Using a Local Package Repository

Establishing a Script Signing Environment

Working With Shortcuts and the PSShortCut Module

How it works.

There's more...

Working With Archive Files

Searching for Files Using the Everything Search Tool

Chapter 3: Exploring .NET

Exploring .NET Assemblies

How it works…

Exploring .NET Classes

Exploring .NET Methods

Creating a C# Extension

Creating a cmdlet

Chapter 4: Managing Active Directory

The systems used in the chapter

Installing a Forest Root Domain

Testing an AD installation

Installing a Replica Domain Controller

Installing a Child Domain

Creating and Managing AD Users and Groups

Managing AD Computers

Adding/Removing Users Using a CSV Files

Creating Group Policy Objects

Reporting on AD Users

Reporting on AD Computers

Managing AD Replication

How to do it…

There's more…

Chapter 5: Managing Networking

Configuring IP Addressing

Testing Network Connectivity

Installing DHCP

Configuring DHCP Scopes and Options

Using DHCP

Configuring a DHCP Reservation

Implementing DHCP Fail Over/Load Balancing

Implementing DNS in the Enterprise

Managing DNS Zones and Resource Records

Configuring DNS Forwarding

Chapter 6: Implementing Enterprise Security

Implementing Just Enough Administration (JEA)

Examining Applications and Services Logs

Discovering Logon Events in the Event Log

Deploying PowerShell Group Policies

Getting ready.

How to do it...

Using PowerShell Script Block Logging

Configuring AD Password Policies

Managing Windows Defender Antivirus

Chapter 7: Managing Storage

Managing Disks

Managing File Systems

Exploring PowerShell Providers and the FileSystem Provider

Managing Storage Replica

Deploying Storage Spaces

Chapter 8: Managing Shared Data

Managing NTFS File and Folder Permissions

Securing Your SMB File Server

Creating and Securing SMB Shares

Accessing SMB Shares

Creating an iSCSI Target

Using an iSCSI Target

Implementing FSRM Filestore Quotas

Implementing FSRM Filestore Reporting.

Getting ready

Implementing FSRM Filestore Screening

Chapter 9: Managing Printing

Installing and Sharing Printers

Publishing a Printer to Active Directory

Changing the Spooler Directory

Changing Printer Drivers

Printing a Test Page

Managing Printer Security

Creating a Printer Pool

Chapter 10: Exploring Windows Containers

Configuring a container host

Deploying sample containers

Deploying IIS in a container

Using a Dockerfile to create a custom container

Chapter 11: Managing Hyper-V

Installing Hyper-V inside Windows Server

See also

Creating a Hyper-V VM

Using PowerShell Direct

How to do it.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781804615102

1804615102

OCLC:

1369067025