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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook, Fifth Edition

Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook, Fifth Edition

By : Thomas Lee
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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook, Fifth Edition

Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook, Fifth Edition

4.7 (21)
By: Thomas Lee

Overview of this book

The Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook is back with a new edition, featuring over 100 PowerShell recipes that will make your day-to-day work easier. This book is designed to help you learn how to install, configure and use PowerShell 7.2 effectively. To start with, we’ll look at how to install and configure PowerShell 7.2, along with useful new features and optimizations, and show you how the PowerShell compatibility solution bridges the gap to older versions of PowerShell. We’ll also be covering a wide range of fundamental and more advanced use cases, including how to create a VM and set up an Azure VPN, as well as looking at how to back up to Azure. As you progress, you’ll explore topics such as using PowerShell to manage networking and DHCP in Windows Server, objects in Active Directory, Hyper-V, and Azure. We’ll also take a closer look at WSUS, containers and see how to handle modules that are not directly compatible with PowerShell 7. Finally, you’ll also learn how to use some powerful tools to diagnose and resolve issues with Windows Server. By the end of this PowerShell book, you’ll know how to use PowerShell 7.2 to automate tasks on Windows Server 2022 with ease, helping your Windows environment to run faster and smoother.
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Using Hyper-V VM groups

Hyper-Vs VM groups allow you to group VMs for automation. There are two types of VM groups you can create, VMCollectionType and ManagementCollectionType:

  • A VMCollectionType VM group contains VMs.
  • A ManagementCollectionType VM group contains VMCollectionType VM groups.

With VM groups, you might have two VMCollectionType VM groups, SQLAccVMG (which contains the SQLAcct1, SQLAcct2, and SQLAcct3 VMs), and a group, SQLMfgVMG, that contains the SQLMfg1 and SQLMfg2 VMs. You could create a ManagementCollectionType VM group, VM-All, containing the two VMCollectionType VM groups.

The VMGroup feature feels incomplete. For example, no -VMGroup parameters exist on any of the Hyper-V cmdlets. Thus you can’t easily execute any Hyper-V commands on all the members of a VM group. And having two types of groups seems confusing and possibly unhelpful. That said, the feature could be useful for large VM hosts running hundreds of VMs, if only from an organizational perspective...

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