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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition
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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

by Thomas Lee
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
542 pages
10h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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New ways to do old things

Networking IT pros in the Windows Server space have been using a number of console applications to perform basic diagnostics for decades. Tools such as Ipconfig, Tracert, and NSlookup are used by IT pros all over the world. The network shell (netsh) is another veritable Swiss Army Knife set of tools to configure and manage Windows networking components.

PowerShell implements a number of cmdlets that do some of the tasks that older Win32 console applications provided. Cmdlets, such as Get-NetIPConfiguration and Resolve-DnsName, are newer alternatives to ipconfig.exe and nslookup.exe.

These cmdlets also add useful functionality. For example, using Test-NetConnection enables you to check whether a host that might block ICMP ...

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