Windows Server 2019 & PowerShell All-in-One For Dummies

Sara Perrott

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781119560647
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Operating Systems
• Index: Computer Science

Your one-stop reference for Windows Server 2019 and PowerShell know-how Windows Server 2019 & PowerShell All-in-One For Dummies offers a single reference to help you build and expand your knowledge of all things Windows Server, including the all-important PowerShell framework. Written by an information security pro and professor who trains aspiring system administrators, this book covers the broad range of topics a system administrator needs to know to run Windows Server 2019, including how to install, configure, and securea system.This book includes coverage of:

• Installing & Setting Up Windows Server
• ConfiguringWindows Server 2019
• Administering Windows Server 2019
• Configuring Networking
• Managing Security
• Working with Windows PowerShell
• Installing and Administering Hyper-V
• Installing, Configuring, and Using Containers

If you're a budding or experienced system administrator looking to build or expand your knowledge of Windows Server, this book has you covered.

Book 1

Installing and Setting Up Windows Server 2019

Contents at a Glance

1. Chapter 1: An Overview of Windows Server 2019
   1. Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Seeing What’s New in Windows Server 2019
   2. Deciding Which Windows Server 2019 Edition Is Right for You
   3. Walking the Walk: Windows Server 2019 User Experiences
   4. Seeing What Server Manager Has to Offer
   5. Windows Admin Center: Your New Best Friend
2. Chapter 2: Using Boot Diagnostics
   1. Accessing Boot Diagnostics
   2. Using a Special Boot Mode
   3. Performing a Memory Test
   4. Using the Command Prompt
   5. Working with Third-Party Boot Utilities
3. Chapter 3: Performing the Basic Installation
   1. Making Sure You Have What It Takes
   2. Performing a Clean Install
   3. Upgrading Windows
   4. Performing a Network Install with Windows Deployment Services
4. Chapter 4: Performing Initial Configuration Tasks
   1. Understanding Default Settings
   2. Getting an Overview of the Configuration Process
   3. Providing Computer Information
   4. Updating Windows Server 2019
   5. Customizing Windows Server 2019
   6. Configuring Startup Options with BCDEdit

Chapter 1

An Overview of Windows Server 2019

IN THIS CHAPTER

Getting an overview of the features new to Windows Server 2019

Making sense of the Windows Server 2019 editions

Looking at the different Windows Server 2019 user experiences

Recognizing the benefits of Server Manager

Working with the Windows Admin Center

Windows Server 2019 is the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship server operating system. This chapter has something for everyone. If you’re already familiar with Windows Server, I discuss the new features that Windows Server 2019 brings to the table. If you haven’t worked with Microsoft Server operating systems much before, you’ll appreciate the information on the editions and user experiences that you can use, depending on your needs.

Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Seeing What’s New in Windows Server 2019

With each new version of Windows Server, Microsoft introduces new and innovative technologies to improve administration or add needed functionality. Here are some of the new features in Windows Server 2019:

• App Compatibility Feature on Demand (FoD) for Server Core: The App Compatibility FoD package includes a set of binaries that improve compatibility for applications that require some of the graphical tools that haven’t historically been available with Server Core. To use these capabilities, you need to install the FoD package from Microsoft; it’s available as an optional package download from the Microsoft Evaluation Downloads page (www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2019) in the form of an ISO image file. Just search for Windows Server Core Features on Demand, and ensure that you download the same version of FoD as the version of Server Core that you’re going to install or you’ve already installed. All you need to do is copy the ISO image file to the local storage on the server or to a shared storage location. Then you can use PowerShell to mount the ISO with the Mount-DiskImage command. This will give you the ability to use Internet Explorer 11, Event Viewer, Performance Monitor, Resource Monitor, Device Manager, Microsoft Management Console (MMC), File Explorer, Windows PowerShell ISE, and Failover Cluster Manager, and it will add support for SQL Server Management Studio.
• Improvements to clustering: Several improvements have been made in regards to clustering in Windows Server 2019:
  • Cluster Sets is a new technology that allow you to group multiple clusters. These clusters may just be compute or storage, or they may be hyperconverged (both storage and compute) clusters. This allows the movement of virtual machines (VMs) across different clusters, which, in turn, allows you to do maintenance tasks with little to no impact to the uptime of the VMs. To use the Cluster Sets feature, you create a VM and point it to a unified namespace (a name that is shared and provides access across multiple storage systems) for the cluster set. From there, the VM will be assigned to a cluster, and the cluster will assign it to a specific node.
  • File Share Witness is a file share that can be used to reach quorum in a clustering scenario. It received two enhancements in Windows Server 2019. The first enhancement enables the Failover Cluster Manager to block the creation of a file share witness if Distributed File System (DFS) is being used. An error message will also be displayed letting you know that this is not supported because it can cause stability issues in your cluster if your file share witness is put on a DFS share.
    The second enhancement to File Share Witness enables you to use a file share witness in scenarios that were not previously supported — for example, when you have poor Internet connections to remote locations, when you don't have shared drives, when you don’t have a domain controller connection (for instance in a demilitarized zone [DMZ]), or in a workgroup or cross-domain cluster where there is no Active Directory–based cluster name.
    

    The DMZ is the area where you’ll typically locate public-facing systems like web servers. It’s essentially a lower-trust network being exposed to an untrusted network, like the Internet.
  • Moving clusters between domains no longer results in the cluster being destroyed. Two new PowerShell cmdlets were created that allow you to move a cluster from one domain to anoth...