Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook
If you work on a daily basis with Windows Server 2012, this book will make life easier by teaching you the skills to automate server tasks with PowerShell scripts, all delivered in recipe form for rapid implementation.
Published on 13. January 2025
372 pages
978-1-84968-947-2 (ISBN)
Description
If you work on a daily basis with Windows Server 2012, this book will make life easier by teaching you the skills to automate server tasks with PowerShell scripts, all delivered in recipe form for rapid implementation.
Key Features
Extend the capabilities of your Windows environment
Improve the process reliability by using well defined PowerShell scripts
Full of examples, scripts, and real-world best practices
Book DescriptionAutomating server tasks allows administrators to repeatedly perform the same, or similar, tasks over and over again. With PowerShell scripts, you can automate server tasks and reduce manual input, allowing you to focus on more important tasks. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will show several ways for a Windows administrator to automate and streamline his/her job. Learn how to automate server tasks to ease your day-to-day operations, generate performance and configuration reports, and troubleshoot and resolve critical problems. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will introduce you to the advantages of using Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell. Each recipe is a building block that can easily be combined to provide larger and more useful scripts to automate your systems. The recipes are packed with examples and real world experience to make the job of managing and administrating Windows servers easier. The book begins with automation of common Windows Networking components such as AD, DHCP, DNS, and PKI, managing Hyper-V, and backing up the server environment. By the end of the book you will be able to use PowerShell scripts to automate tasks such as performance monitoring, reporting, analyzing the environment to match best practices, and troubleshooting.What you will learn
Streamline routine administration processes
Automate the implementation of entire AD infrastructures
Generate automatic reports that highlight unexpected changes in your environment
Monitor performance and report on system utilization in detailed graphs and analysis
Create and manage a reliable and redundant Hyper-V environment
Utilize the Best Practices Analyzer from Microsoft to ensure your environment is configured optimally
Manage the patch level of your enterprise
Utilize multiple protocols to share information in a heterogeneous environment
Who this book is forThis book is written to assist the daily tasks for systems administrators, engineers, and architects working with Windows Server 2012.
Key Features
Extend the capabilities of your Windows environment
Improve the process reliability by using well defined PowerShell scripts
Full of examples, scripts, and real-world best practices
Book DescriptionAutomating server tasks allows administrators to repeatedly perform the same, or similar, tasks over and over again. With PowerShell scripts, you can automate server tasks and reduce manual input, allowing you to focus on more important tasks. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will show several ways for a Windows administrator to automate and streamline his/her job. Learn how to automate server tasks to ease your day-to-day operations, generate performance and configuration reports, and troubleshoot and resolve critical problems. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will introduce you to the advantages of using Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell. Each recipe is a building block that can easily be combined to provide larger and more useful scripts to automate your systems. The recipes are packed with examples and real world experience to make the job of managing and administrating Windows servers easier. The book begins with automation of common Windows Networking components such as AD, DHCP, DNS, and PKI, managing Hyper-V, and backing up the server environment. By the end of the book you will be able to use PowerShell scripts to automate tasks such as performance monitoring, reporting, analyzing the environment to match best practices, and troubleshooting.What you will learn
Streamline routine administration processes
Automate the implementation of entire AD infrastructures
Generate automatic reports that highlight unexpected changes in your environment
Monitor performance and report on system utilization in detailed graphs and analysis
Create and manage a reliable and redundant Hyper-V environment
Utilize the Best Practices Analyzer from Microsoft to ensure your environment is configured optimally
Manage the patch level of your enterprise
Utilize multiple protocols to share information in a heterogeneous environment
Who this book is forThis book is written to assist the daily tasks for systems administrators, engineers, and architects working with Windows Server 2012.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
4,96 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84968-947-2 (9781849689472)
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03/2013
Packt Publishing
€69.60
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Person
Ed Goad is a systems architect who has been working in various roles in the IT field for 16 years. He first became interested in scripting and automation when presented with a task to uninstall software from over 1,000 systems with limited time and resources. He has worked with scripting and automation on multiple platforms and languages including PowerShell, VBscript, C#, and BASH scripting. Ed currently holds multiple Microsoft certifications, most recently including the Microsoft Certified IT Professional - Enterprise Administrator. Additional non-Microsoft certifications include VMware Certified Professional (VCP), Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), EMC Proven Professional, Brocade Certified Network Engineer (BCNE), and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). Ed is currently on a sabbatical and volunteering full time at the Amor Fe y Esperanza school in Honduras(http://www.afehonduras.org). There he is teaching computer and math classes to the kids who live and work in the garbage dump outside of the capital city of Tegucigalpa.
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