Mastering Windows Server 2022: Comprehensive administration of your Windows Server environment, 4th Edition

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With these new and improved ways to manage the underlying components of your servers without having to log in to them directly, does this mean that our age-old friend RDP is going away? Certainly not! We will still have the need to access our servers directly sometimes, even if we go all-in with using the newer management tools. And I also expect that many administrators out there will continue using RDP and full desktop-based access for all management and monitoring of their servers simply because that is what they are more comfortable with, even if newer, more efficient ways now exist to accomplish the same tasks. Remote Desktop Connection Manager In general, the categorization of computer networks consists of the area they cover and the purpose they serve. The following subsections describe some of the most popular computer networks used today. Personal area network As you might recall, computer hardware and software represent physical and logical components. Therefore, since the server’s primary role is to provide network services to the clients, a server requires powerful hardware. That is because software such as Windows Server is designed to provide advanced network services. Therefore, its hardware must be durable and high-quality materials to deliver services and support network-based operations continually. Aside from distinguishing itself from the ordinary computer, a server is also specific in the types of services it provides. For example, a database server requires more memory capacity and storage space. Let’s look at the Windows Server timeline to un derstand how it has evolved over the years. The Windows Server timeline

Chapter 6, Certificates, jumps into one of the pieces of Windows Server that has existed for many years, and yet most server administrators that I meet are unfamiliar with it. We’ll take a closer look at certificates as they become more and more commonly required for new technologies that we roll out. By the end of this chapter, you should be able to spin up your own PKI and start issuing certificates for free! Interestingly, the origin of the word servers comes from the word serve. If you search for the word serve in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, among the results, you will find one that says " to provide services that benefit or help". Therefore, we can think of a server in a computer network as the computer that provides services to clients. In conclusion, the server serves the clients.CPU: 1.4 GHz 64-bit that supports a number of things—NX, DEP, CMPXCHG16b, LAHF/SAHF, PrefetchW, and SLAT. If you have worked on Windows Server recently, you are familiar with the idea that logging in to any of your servers automatically invokes a large window on top of the desktop. This auto-launching program is Server Manager. As the name implies, it’s here to help you manage your server. However, in my experience, the majority of server administrators do not utilize Server Manager. Instead, they close it as fast as they can and curse at it under their breath because it’s been popping up and annoying them during every server login for the past 10 years.

The next type of network architecture is the client/server archit ecture. Client/server network architecture There it is! Okay, so now that I know the correct name of the feature, let’s run the command to install it, as shown in the following example: Add-WindowsFeature Telnet-ClientAfter walking through the process to get these tools on my Windows 10 client computer, I can’t seem to find any program that is called Remote Server Administration Tool. That would be correct. Even though the names of these features we are installing all begin with RSAT, the components that are getting installed onto your system are the actual Windows Server system tools. If I now choose to add a new role from inside Server Manager that is aware of multiple servers in the network, when I get to the screen asking me where I want to install that role, I see that I can choose to install a new role or feature onto one of my other servers, even though I am not working from the console of those servers, as shown in Figure 2.23: Windows Server 2022 continues that trend. Windows Server operating system in-place upgrades are stable and introduce us to a much more efficient way to upgrade servers than the old rip-and-replace methods. Let’s take a minute a prove this. On my Hyper-V host, where I run test labs, I have numerous Server 2022 VMs, but I still have many Server 2019 VMs sitting offline from previous projects. If I wanted to install the web server role onto WEB1, a new server that I am prepping to be a web server, I would not have to log into the WEB1 server. Right here, from Server Manager running on CA1, I could run through the Add Roles wizard, define WEB1 as the server that I want to manipulate, and install the role directly from here. Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT)

The roles for AD DS, DNS, and DHCP are now successfully installed, but there is some additional configuration that is now required for those roles to do their work. For example, to finish turning my server into a domain controller, I need to run through a promotion process to define my domain or to specify an existing domain that I want to join. There are also some loose ends that I need to tie up before putting DHCP into action: Design and implement Microsoft Server 2022 in an enterprise environment and use Windows Server to create secure and efficient networks A network interface enables the server to connect to an organization’s LAN and the internet. Usually, servers have more than one network interface. That is because the faster the server’s network connection speed is, the more data the server can send and receive to and from the network. You could have many servers all doing their jobs, and every time a new operating system is released, you simply run the installer and upgrade them. Voila—magic! 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. It is much more common that we always build brand-new servers alongside the currently running production servers. Once the new server is configured and ready to accept its responsibilities, then, and only then, does the actual workload migrate over to the new server from the old one. In a planned, carefully sculpted migration process, once the migration of duties is finished, then the old server is shut down and taken away. We will discuss this a little bit more near the end of this chapter and try to convince you that in-place upgrades are actually much better than they used to be.Using Server Manager on a single server to manage and monitor all of your servers is pretty handy, but what if we could take one more step out of that process? What if I told you that you didn’t have to log in to any of your servers, but could perform all of these tasks from the computer sitting on your desk? Chapter 16, Troubleshooting, provides information about tools and software included with Windows Server that can be used to troubleshoot common problems. Server 2022 seems to be Microsoft’s most stable and reliable server operating system to date, yet as you all know nothing is perfect, and issues are bound to present themselves. Here we discover tools like Resource Manager, Performance Monitor, and System Insights that help to keep our servers tuned and running well. To get the most out of this book Now, before I go too far down this road of describing the Sysprep process, I will also note that there are more involved technologies available within the Windows infrastructure that allow automated operating system and server rollouts, which can make the new server rollout process even easier than what I am describing here. The problem with some of the automated technologies is that the infrastructure required to make them work properly is more advanced than many folks will have access to if they are just learning the ropes with Windows Server. In other words, having a fully automated server rollout mechanism isn’t very feasible for small environments or test labs, which is where a lot of us live while we are learning about these new technologies. This is possible by installing a toolset from Microsoft called the Remote Server Administration Tools ( RSAT). I have a regular Windows 10 client computer online and running in our network, also domain-joined. I am now going to add an optional feature to this Windows 10 computer to give it the RSAT toolset.