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Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook PDF

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to effectively administer and manage your Windows Server 2012 R2 infrastructure in enterprise environments Jordan Krause BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook Copyright © 2015 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. First published: January 2015 Production reference: 1220115 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Livery Place 35 Livery Street Birmingham B3 2PB, UK. ISBN 978-1-78439-307-6 www.packtpub.com Credits Author Project Coordinator Jordan Krause Suzanne Coutinho Reviewers Proofreaders Bede Carroll Ting Baker Jochen Nickel Stephen Copestake Matthew Stone Lawrence A. Herman Kunal Udapi Indexer Commissioning Editor Hemangini Bari Kunal Parikh Production Coordinator Acquisition Editor Melwyn D'sa Vinay Argekar Cover Work Content Development Editor Melwyn D'sa Pooja Nair Technical Editor Prajakta Mhatre Copy Editor Ameesha Green About the Author Jordan Krause is a Microsoft MVP in the Enterprise Security group. He has the unique opportunity to work with the Microsoft networking technologies daily as a senior engineer at IVO Networks. Jordan specializes in Microsoft DirectAccess and has authored Microsoft DirectAccess Best Practices and Troubleshooting, Packt Publishing, one of the few books available worldwide on this subject. His additional technical expertise includes Microsoft Unified Access Gateway (UAG) and Microsoft Threat Management Gateway (TMG). He spends the majority of each workday planning, designing, and implementing DirectAccess for companies around the world. Committed to continuous learning, Jordan holds Microsoft certifications as an MCP, MCTS, MCSA, and MCITP Enterprise Administrator. He regularly writes tech notes and articles reflecting his experiences with the Microsoft networking technologies; these can be found at: http://www.ivonetworks.com/news. Jordan also strives to spend time helping the DirectAccess community, mostly by way of the Microsoft TechNet forums. Always open to direct contact, he encourages anyone who needs assistance to head over to the forums and find him personally. Jordan lives and works in the ever-changing climate that is Michigan. About the Reviewers Bede Carroll is an IT everyman, working with servers, networking, and storage when not dabbling with some coding for fun. His desire to learn has led him to hold many industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, VMware, and EMC to name but a few. Bede has many years of industry experience obtained while working in small business environments all the way through to Fortune Global 500 organizations. This diverse experience has given Bede a unique perspective on the industry and the ability to respond to any client needs. Bede can be found on Twitter @bedecarroll, on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/ bedecarroll, and occasionally blogging at www.bedecarroll.com. I would like to thank my wonderful family for their love and support in helping me to achieve my goals. Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity, and Access Management Solution Architect with a focus and deep technical knowledge on the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite. He currently works for inovit GmbH in Switzerland and spends the majority of each work day planning, designing, and implementing single parts such as Azure Active Directory Premium, Azure Rights Management Services, or complete Enterprise Mobility Suite solutions. Also, he has been part of many projects, proof of concepts, reviews, and workshops in this field of technology. Furthermore, he is a Microsoft V-TSP Security, Identity, and Access Management, Microsoft Switzerland, and he uses his experience for directly managed business accounts in Switzerland. He is also an established speaker at many technology conferences. As an active writer and reviewer, Jochen authored Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control and reviewed Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment by Erez Ben-Ari and Bala Natarajan, both by Packt Publishing. Committed to continuous learning, he holds Microsoft certifications such as MCITP, MCSE/A, MCTS, MTA, and many other security titles. He enjoys spending as much time as possible with his family to get back the energy to handle such interesting technologies. He regularly blogs at www.inovit.ch/blog.idam.ch. Matthew Stone is an IT veteran, having worked on a wide range of technologies over the last 20 years, including Windows Server and many other Microsoft server technologies. In addition to systems administration, he has also served as a technical writer, most recently writing a training course on Office 365 administration and deployment. His current focus is on orchestration and configuration management in the enterprise, focusing on Windows Server and Puppet technologies. Kunal Udapi has acquired more than 8 years of IT experience in SMB and Enterprise infrastructure design, implementation, and administration. He has provided architectural and engineering expertise in a variety of virtualization, data center, and private cloud-based engagements for company's internal IT team environment. He currently holds the title of Senior System Administrator at a company in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Kunal holds numerous technical certifications (Windows and VMware) and was awarded VMware vExpert in 2014. He frequently answer users' questions on VMware Technology Network (VMTN) and LinkedIn groups. Kunal is an independent blogger for http://kunaludapi.blogspot.com. 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Table of Contents Preface 1 Chapter 1: Learning the Interface 9 Introduction 10 Shutting down or restarting the server 10 Launching Administrative Tools 13 Using WinKey + X for quick admin tasks 15 Using the Search function to launch applications quickly 17 Managing remote servers from a single pane with Server Manager 20 Using PowerShell to accomplish any function in Windows Server 23 Installing a role or feature 25 Administering Server 2012 R2 from a Windows 8.x machine 27 Identifying useful keyboard shortcuts in Server 2012 R2 29 Setting your PowerShell Execution Policy 31 Building and executing your first PowerShell script 33 Searching for PowerShell cmdlets with Get-Help 37 Chapter 2: Core Infrastructure Tasks 39 Introduction 39 Configuring a combination Domain Controller, DNS server, and DHCP server 40 Adding a second Domain Controller 45 Organizing your computers with Organizational Units (OUs) 47 Creating an A or AAAA record in DNS 50 Creating and using a CNAME record in DNS 54 Creating a DHCP scope to assign addresses to computers 55 Creating a DHCP reservation for a specific server or resource 58 Pre-staging a computer account in Active Directory 60 Using PowerShell to create a new Active Directory user 62 Using PowerShell to view system uptime 65

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