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

Cover 1 Copyright 3 Credits 4 About the Author 5 About the Reviewers 6 www.PacktPub.com 8 Table of Contents 10 Preface 14 Chapter 1: Learning the Interface 22 Introduction 23 Shutting down or restarting the server 23 Launching Administrative Tools 26 Using WinKey + X for quick admin tasks 28 Using the Search function to launch applications quickly 30 Managing remote servers from a single pane with Server Manager 33 Using PowerShell to accomplish any function in Windows Server 36 Installing a role or feature 38 Administering Server 2012 R2 from a Windows 8.x machine 40 Identifying useful keyboard shortcuts in Server 2012 R2 42 Setting your PowerShell Execution Policy 44 Building and executing your first PowerShell script 46 Searching for PowerShell cmdlets with Get-Help 50 Chapter 2: Core Infrastructure Tasks 52 Introduction 52 Configuring a combination Domain Controller, DNS server, and DHCP server 53 Adding a second Domain Controller 58 Organizing your computers with Organizational Units (OUs) 60 Creating an A or AAAA record in DNS 63 Creating and using a CNAME record in DNS 67 Creating a DHCP scope to assign addresses to computers 68 Creating a DHCP reservation for a specific server or resource 71 Pre-staging a computer account in Active Directory 73 Using PowerShell to create a new Active Directory user 75 Using PowerShell to view system uptime 78 Chapter 3: Security and Networking 82 Introduction 83 Requiring complex passwords in your network 83 Using Windows Firewall with Advanced Security to block unnecessary traffic 85 Changing the RDP port on your server to hide access 88 Multi-homing your Windows Server 2012 R2 90 Adding a static route into the Windows routing table 92 Using Telnet to test a connection and network flow 96 Using the Pathping command to trace network traffic 99 Setting up NIC Teaming 100 Renaming and domain joining via PowerShell 103 Chapter 4: Working with Certificates 106 Introduction 107 Setting up the first Certification Authority (CA) server in a network 107 Building a Subordinate Certification Authority server 114 Creating a certificate template to prepare for issuing machine certificates to 117 your clients 117 Publishing a certificate template to allow enrollment 119 Using MMC to request a new certificate 121 Using the web interface to request a new certificate 124 Configuring Autoenrollment to issue certificates to all domain joined systems 127 Chapter 5: Internet Information Services 132 Introduction 133 Installing the Web Server (IIS) role with PowerShell 133 Launching your first website 135 Changing the port on which your website runs 138 Adding encryption (HTTPS) to your website 140 Using a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to acquire your SSL certificate 143 Moving an SSL certificate from one server to another 147 Rebinding your renewed certificates automatically 150 Using host headers to manage multiple websites on a single IP address 153 Chapter 6: Remote Access 158 Introduction 159 DirectAccess Planning Q&A 160 Configuring DirectAccess, VPN, or a combination of the two 162 Pre-staging Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to be used by DirectAccess 165 Enhancing the security of DirectAccess by requiring certificate authentication 168 Building your Network Location Server (NLS) on its own system 172 Enabling Network Load Balancing (NLB) on your DirectAccess servers 176 Adding VPN to your existing DirectAccess server 181 Replacing your expiring IP-HTTPS certificate 184 Reporting on DirectAccess and VPN connections 187 Chapter 7: Remote Desktop Services 192 Introduction 193 Building a single server Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environment 194 Adding an additional RDSH server to your RDS environment 196 Installing applications on an RD Session Host server 199 Disabling the redirection of local resources 202 Shadowing another session in RDS 205 Installing a printer driver to use with redirection 208 Removing an RD Session Host server from use for maintenance 213 Publishing WordPad with RemoteApp 215 Chapter 8: Monitoring and Backup 220 Introduction 221 Using Server Manager as a quick monitoring tool 221 Using the new Task Manager to its full potential 226 Evaluating system performance with Windows Performance Monitor 230 Using Format-List to modify PowerShell data output 234 Configuring a full system backup using Windows Server Backup 237 Recovering data from a Windows backup file 240 Using IP Address Management (IPAM) to keep track of your used IP addresses 242 Chapter 9: Group Policy 248 Introduction 249 Creating and assigning a new Group Policy Object (GPO) 249 Mapping network drives with Group Policy 253 Redirecting the My Documents folder to a network share 256 Creating a VPN connection with Group Policy 258 Creating a printer connection with Group Policy 261 Using Group Policy to enforce an Internet proxy server 263 Viewing the settings currently enabled inside a GPO 266 Viewing the GPOs currently assigned to a computer 268 Backing up and restoring GPOs 271 Chapter 10: File Services and Data Control 276 Introduction 276 Enabling Distributed File System (DFS) and creating a Namespace 277 Configuring Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) 282 Creating an iSCSI target on your server 286 Configuring an iSCSI initiator connection 289 Configuring Storage Spaces 292 Turning on data deduplication 296 Setting up Windows Server 2012 R2 Work Folders 299 Index 304

About This Book

• Track Hadoop operations, errors, and bottlenecks efficiently
• Employ Hadoop logging features to help manage Hadoop clusters better
• Visualize the data collected and present it in a systematic manner

Who This Book Is For

This book is useful for Hadoop administrators who need to learn how to monitor and diagnose their clusters. Also, the book will prove useful for new users of the technology, as the language used is simple and easy to grasp.

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionWhat you will learnWho this book is forThis book is intended for system administrators and IT professionals with experience in Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2012 environments who are looking to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to manage and maintain the core infrastructure required for a Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 environment.