Goad E. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2013. — 356 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84968-946-5Over 110 recipes to automate Windows Server administrative tasks by using PowerShell.
Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will show several ways for a Windows administrator to automate and streamline his/her job. Learn how to automate server tasks to ease your day-to-day operations, generate performance and configuration reports, and troubleshoot and resolve critical problems. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will introduce you to the advantages of using Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell. Each recipe is a building block that can easily be combined to provide larger and more useful scripts to automate your systems. The recipes are packed with examples and real world experience to make the job of managing and administrating Windows servers easier. The book begins with automation of common Windows Networking components such as AD, DHCP, DNS, and PKI, managing Hyper-V, and backing up the server environment. By the end of the book you will be able to use PowerShell scripts to automate tasks such as performance monitoring, reporting, analyzing the environment to match best practices, and troubleshooting.
This book is written to assist the daily tasks for systems administrators, engineers, and architects working with Windows Server 2012.Understanding PowerShell Scripting
Managing Windows Network Services with PowerShell
Managing IIS with PowerShell
Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell
Managing Storage with PowerShell
Managing Network Shares with PowerShell
Managing Windows Updates with PowerShell
Managing Printers with PowerShell
Troubleshooting Servers with PowerShell
Managing Performance with PowerShell
Inventorying Servers with PowerShell
Server Backup