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Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition

By : ED GOAD, Thomas Lee, David Cobb
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Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

4.7 (7)
By: ED GOAD, Thomas Lee, David Cobb

Overview of this book

This book showcases several ways that Windows administrators can use to automate and streamline their job. You'll start with the PowerShell and Windows Server fundamentals, where you'll become well versed with PowerShell and Windows Server features. In the next module, Core Windows Server 2016, you'll implement Nano Server, manage Windows updates, and implement troubleshooting and server inventories. You'll then move on to the Networking module, where you'll manage Windows network services and network shares. The last module covers Azure and DSC, where you will use Azure on PowerShell and DSC to easily maintain Windows servers.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Implementing a DSC web-based pull server


Deploying a DSC web-based pull server is more complex than deploying an SMB pull server. The SMB-based pull server is simple: just create a couple of shares and place the relevant files on that share. The web server approach requires you to also load IIS, install the DSC service, and configure the service, as well as placing the MOF files, resources, and any relevant checksums on the web server. Of course, in both cases, you need to configure each node's LCM.

You deploy a web based pull server to provide a pull client with both resources and configuration MOF files. Unlike an SMB-based pull server, a web-based pull server also provides reporting capabilities enabling a pull client to report status back to the reporting server. Reporting is not available using an SMB-based pull server.

To simplify the creation of a web-based DSC pull server, you can use the xPSDesiredStateConfiguration module DSC resource. You download this resource from PSGallery. This...

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