Mastering Windows Server 2022 - Fourth Edition: Comprehensive administration of your Windows Server environment 2. Gain access to our AI Assistant (beta) for an exclusive selection of 500 books, available during your subscription period.

In some cases, you may have originally intended only to add a particular feature, and in these cases, you would have bypassed the Server Roles screen altogether and gone immediately to the Features installation screen.What is the name of the new web-based, centralized server management tool from Microsoft (fun fact, this toolset was formerly known as Project Honolulu)? First, just like you have already done, we need to prepare our first server by getting the Windows Server 2022 operating system installed.

All of the tools we have already discussed are still stable, relevant, and great ways to interact with and manage Windows 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. generalize is very important because it replaces all of the unique identification information, the SID info, in the new copies of Windows that come online. With the new virtualization and cloud paradigm shift, many companies have a virtually unlimited number of servers that can be running, and this means we are running much larger quantities of servers to perform the same jobs and functions. After launching this command, you will see Sysprep moving through some processes within Windows, and after a couple of minutes, your server will shut itself down, as shown in Figure 2.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.

I assume that a lot of you, as IT professionals, are also the de facto neighborhood computer guru, constantly asked by friends and family to fix or rebuild their computers. After completing checkout and payment in the normal way, you will receive your receipt on the screen containing a link to a personalised PDF download file.

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Hopefully, this process is helpful information that can save you time when building new servers in your own environments. Refrain from installing any full roles onto the server because, depending on the role and its unique configuration, the Sysprep process that we run shortly could cause problems for individual role configurations. This is to be expected because I am using a self-signed certificate, which, once again, is a bad idea. Compared to that timeline, installing a modern operating system (OS) such as Windows Server 2022 is almost unbelievably fast and simple. I'm quite experienced with Windows Server 2019, but I was unfamiliar with the new features added to 2022, especially DNS-over-HTTPS, which is a new technology.

If you want to remove the certificate warning, make sure to skip ahead to Chapter 6, Certificates, where we will cover all the necessary information to make that possible. I won’t spend a lot of time looking over individual features or capabilities of this tool since it is a client-side tool and not something that is specific to Windows Server 2022. While this might be a stretch in our lifetimes, and while there are some other tools available for remotely managing your server infrastructure, RDP is the platform of choice for 99% of us out there. There are pieces of technology available in Windows Server 2022 that are not installed or turned on by default because these features wouldn’t be used in all circumstances.