Windows Server 2016: Essentials for Administration

Expert advice for Windows Server 2016 right at your fingertips.

Practical and precise, this hands-on guide with ready answers is designed for architects, administrators, engineers and others working with Windows Server 2016. If you're an IT Pro responsible for configuring, managing and maintaining computers running Windows Server 2016, start with this well-organized and authoritative resource.

Inside you'll find expert insights, tips, tricks and workarounds that will save time and help you get the job done by giving you the right information right now. During the course of reading this book, you will master a number of complex topics, techniques, commands and functions.

Topics covered include:

Using containers, virtualization and nano server

Configuring server roles, services and features

Managing and troubleshooting Active Directory

Creating and managing user, group and computer accounts

Monitoring and tuning performance

Optimizing security settings, policies and templates

And much, much more!!!

Not only will this informative training manual help you become familiar with essential concepts, it'll help you reach new levels of mastery. This is the ideal concise, immediate reference you’ll want with you at all times.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Welcome to Windows Server 2016

Chapter 2. Working with Windows Servers

Chapter 3. Configuring Server Settings

Chapter 4. Understanding Active Directory

Chapter 5. Managing Active Directory

Chapter 6. Maintaining Active Directory

Chapter 7. Accounts: The Essentials

Chapter 8. Managing Account Policies

Chapter 9. Creating Accounts

Chapter 10. Working with Managed Accounts

Chapter 11. Managing Computers, Users and Groups

Chapter 12. Maintaining Your Servers

Chapter 13. Optimizing Server Performance

Chapter 14. Using Group Policy

Chapter 15. Maintaining and Troubleshooting Group Policy

Chapter 16. Optimizing Server Security

Index