Windows Server 2019 bridges on-premises environments with Azure, adding additional layers of security while helping you modernize your applications and infrastructure; whereas Hyper-V is Microsoft's hardware virtualization product which lets you create and run software on a virtual machine.

With this hands-on course, you will begin with setting up your server 19 with useful tips, manage storage and get started with some of the fundamental roles in Windows Server. Then you'll learn to accelerate your server management through Server Manager, Windows Admin Center, and PowerShell. Once you are familiar with server 19, you will then move on to implementing Hyper-V to reduce software licensing costs and free up your staff time. Furthermore, you will be deploying virtual hard drives for Hyper-V virtual machines 7 & manage virtual machines, including checkpoints and virtual machine state, and execute PowerShell script from the Hyper-V server

Contents and Overview

This training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, Learning Windows Server 2019 you’ll learn all the basics to jump-start you on the road to learning Microsoft’s latest version of Windows Server. We’ll show you how to set up your new server from installations to useful configuration tips. We’ll also cover how to manage storage and get started with some of the fundamental roles in Windows Server. All of this is done with a real-world approach. By the end of the course, you’ll have all the information you need to get started with Windows Server 2019 in your own environment.

The second course, Implementing Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V you’ll see how to implement Hyper-V to reduce software licensing costs and free up your staff time. You’ll see how to install the Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V role and deploy virtual networks, virtual hard drives, and virtual machines. Moving on, you’ll discover the best practices for a virtual machine and virtual hard drive storage. We’ll give you detailed guidance on how to attain high performance by leveraging Hyper-V virtual network adapter features and virtual machine configuration. By the end of this course, you’ll have learned how to deploy a Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V server. You’ll deploy and configure virtual switches, virtual hard drives, and virtual machines.

About the Authors:

• Bill Kindle is a proud husband, father, & dedicated IT professional with over 15 years of IT experience as a systems administrator working primarily in Windows shops and now branching out into infrastructure engineering, automation technology, and DevOps.

• Anthony Howell is a proud father, a lucky husband, and a passionate automator. He's the guy that will always suggest writing a script to solve the problems of the day. He's been working professionally in IT since 2009 when he started as a helpdesk tech at University. After being betrayed by calculus, he switched from Computer Science to getting his associates from ITT Tech in Network Systems Administration. By the time he graduated, he was already a sysadmin with a focus on PowerShell automation. Looking back, he's always been the PowerShell guy at the places he's worked. So much so that he decided to venture out on his own as a PowerShell developer.

• David Lamb is a Systems Administrator managing Windows servers and clients since 1995, spending a large portion of his career in the aviation industry. His first certification was the MCSE on Windows NT 4.0, earned in 2001. David lives in Alberta, Canada, and is currently spending his free time learning PowerShell, blogging, and pursuing the MCSE certification on Windows Server.

• Matt McElreath is a Windows Server administrator concentrating on automation, PowerShell, Desired State Configuration (DSC), Octopus Deploy, and anything else thrown his way.

• TechSnips is an IT career development platform that provides free learning content to people in information technology (IT). All of the content we publish is built by IT professionals, system administrators, DevOps engineers, software developers. You name it! All content is created by people in the trenches performing this work day in and day out. We like to call ourselves an IT career development platform rather than an e-learning platform because our service provides career development benefits to both contributors (those creating the content) and to subscribers (those consuming the content). We help people on both sides of the divide become better in their careers.

• Jeffery Stillman is a technical trainer and developer living in Arizona, USA. He has been teaching Microsoft server and client operating systems since 1993 and has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2002. He holds certifications in Windows Server 2008, 2012, and 2016 and specializes in server virtualization and scripted deployments and management of servers using Windows PowerShell.