Mastering Windows Server 2022 with Azure Cloud Services: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS (Series Monographs in Applied Toxicology)

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In addition to those normal options, you will also be asked whether you want to upgrade to Windows Server 2022 Standard or the (Desktop Experience) version.

WAC can also be used to bind your on-premises environment together with your Azure environment through things like Azure File Sync and Azure Backup. This “Desktop Experience” that the wizard is talking about is the full Windows Server graphical interface, which you are more than likely expecting to see once we are done with our installation.

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. I also need to make sure that the hostname of my server is set to its final name because once you turn it into a Domain Controller, it is not supported to change the hostname. True or false—By choosing the default installation option for Windows Server 2022, you will end up with a user interface that looks quite like Windows 10.

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. We are first asked if we want to continue with a role-based or feature-based installation, which is exactly what we have been talking about doing. Now that you have seen the graphical wizards for installing roles and features, you could certainly always use them to put these components into place on your servers.audit: This restarts the machine into a special audit mode, where you have the option of adding additional drivers into Windows before the final image gets taken.

If I simply input my domain credentials here, I am now presented with the WAC interface, as shown in Figure 2. Without earning your Installing an OS 101 badge on your tool belt, that shiny server will make for an interesting piece of wall art. 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. But it works nonetheless and is a quick, easy, and free way to prep your bootable USB sticks for fresh operating system installations.In a perfect world where everything always works flawlessly following upgrades, this would be a great way to go. 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. What you will learn Build a Windows Server from the ground up and implement your own PKI Manage your servers with Server Manager, PowerShell, and Windows Admin Center Secure your network and data with modern technologies in Windows Server 2022 Understand containers and where Nano Server fits into the equation Discover new ways to integrate your datacenter with Microsoft Azure Virtualize your datacenter with Hyper-V Round out your understanding of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy Deploy Remote Desktop Services in your environment Who this book is for Anyone interested in Windows Server administration will benefit from this book. unattend: There is a special answerfile that you can create that, when specified, will be used in conjunction with the Sysprep process to further configure your new servers as they come online.

I am using the full GUI in a Server 2019 Desktop Experience configuration of Windows, so I will proceed with installing 2022 Desktop Experience. Perfect for IT professionals who manage on-premises Windows Server environments, seek to use Azure to manage server workloads, and want to secure virtual machines running on Windows Server 2022, Mastering Windows Server 2022 with Azure Cloud Services: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS is also a must-read resource for anyone involved in administering or operating Microsoft Azure IaaS workloads. 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? Since you have just logged into this new server, you should be staring at the Server Manager dashboard.I don’t have any clusters in my test lab, not yet anyway, so I am going to add connections to the standard servers that I have been running in the environment. Whatever changes or customizations you put into place, it’s not a bad idea to run a full slew of tests against the first new server that you build from this master image, just to make sure all of your changes made it through the Sysprep process. This is a browser-based tool, meaning that, once installed, you access WAC from a web browser, which is great. Sysprep fixes all of these inherent problems with the system duplication process by randomizing the unique identifiers in the operating system. No need to install a management tool or application onto your workstation—simply sit down and tap into it with a URL.