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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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Configuring DHCP Scopes and Options

Installing DHCP is straightforward, as you saw in the “Installing DHCP” recipe – you add the Windows feature and then carry out two small configuration steps. The extra steps enable you to use the relevant security groups and avoid the Server Manager GUI message that there are configuration steps not yet performed. You probably do not need to take these extra steps in most cases.

Before your DHCP server can provide IP address configuration information to clients, you must create a DHCP scope and options. A DHCP scope is a range of DHCP addresses your DHCP server can give out for a given IP subnet. DHCP options are specific configuration options your DHCP server provides, such as the DNS server’s IP address and the IPv4 default gateway.

Depending on your organization’s needs, you can set DHCP options at a scope level or server level. For example, you would most likely specify a default gateway in the scope...

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