Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook: Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

by Thomas Lee, Jeffrey Snover

Overview

With a foreword from PowerShell creator Jeffrey Snover, this heavily updated edition is designed to help you learn how to use PowerShell 7.1 effectively and manage the core roles, features, and services of Windows Server in an enterprise setting. All scripts are compatible with both Window Server 2022 and 2019.

This latest edition equips you with over 100 recipes you'll need in day-to-day work, covering a wide range of fundamental and more advanced use cases. We look at how to install and configure PowerShell 7.1, along with useful new features and optimizations, and how the PowerShell compatibility solution bridges the gap to older versions of PowerShell. Topics include using PowerShell to manage networking and DHCP in Windows Server, objects in Active Directory, Hyper-V, and Azure. Debugging is crucial, so the book shows you how to use some powerful tools to diagnose and resolve issues with Windows Server.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800569690
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	07/30/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	674
File size:	51 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7
2. Introducing PowerShell 7
3. Exploring Compatibility with Windows PowerShell
4. Using PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise
5. Exploring .NET
6. Managing Active Directory
7. Managing Networking in the Enterprise
8. Implementing Enterprise Security
9. Managing Storage
10. Managing Shared Data
11. Managing Printing
12. Managing Hyper-V
13. Managing Azure
14. Troubleshooting with PowerShell
15. Managing with Windows Management Instrumentation