Mastering Windows Server 2022 with Azure Cloud Services: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS (Series Monographs in Applied Toxicology)

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Since you have just logged into this new server, you should be staring at the Server Manager dashboard. If you wanted to clone your master server, you could simply use a hard disk imaging tool, or if you were dealing with virtual machines, you could simply copy and paste the .

Typing Get-WindowsFeature | Where Installed presents us with a list of the currently installed components. This is a browser-based tool, meaning that, once installed, you access WAC from a web browser, which is great.We will take a closer look at Server Manager itself later in this chapter, but for our purposes here, we will simply use it as a launching platform to get to our wizard, which will guide us through the installation of our first role on this new server we are putting together. For optimal viewing of our eBooks, we recommend you download and install the free Adobe Reader version 9. generalize: This specifies that Sysprep is to remove all of the unique system information (SID) from the Windows installation, making the final image usable on multiple machines in your network because each new one spun up from the image will get a new, unique SID. After saving your server RDP connections into RDCM, this tool provides you with a centralized and fast way to RDP into any of the servers that you administer.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work like that, and I almost never see server administrators willing to take risks in doing an in-place upgrade to an existing production server. The next screen is an interesting one and the first place that you really need to start paying attention.This is a large collection of poignant snippets and links to articles on so many hot topics today including AI security, trust, privacy, billion attacks, and raccoon management.

But Microsoft has put much effort into creating a Windows Server environment where almost anything within the operating system can be manipulated using PowerShell, and the addition of roles and features is included in those capabilities. I also need to make sure that the hostname of my server is set to its final name because once you turn it into a Domain Controller, it is not supported to change the hostname. Here is where you see the real benefit from the time that Sysprep saves, as you can now spin up many new servers all at the same time by doing a quick copy and paste of the master image file and booting all of your new servers from these new files. This should come as no surprise because our operating system installer files have been getting larger and larger over the years.Whether new to the server world or working to keep your existing skills sharp, this book aims to be referenced on a regular basis instead of gather If you were to do something like that to a master server, that role would more than likely break when brought up on a new server.

When you want to create new servers in the future, you simply copy and paste your master file into a new location for the new server, rename the drive file to something appropriate for the server you are creating, and boot your new virtual machine from it. In a planned, carefully sculpted migration process, once the migration of duties is finished, then the old server is shut down and taken away. You could also start or stop services that you may or may not want running on each of your servers and change settings in the registry if that is part of your normal server prep or hardening process.If you have followed along with the test lab configuration in the book so far, you will recognize the words “Windows Admin Center” from a pop-up window that displays itself every time that Server Manager is opened.