The in-depth, authoritative reference for intermediate to advanced IT professionals.

Solutions, workarounds, tips and insights for IT pros working with Windows Server 2016. This exhaustive and comprehensive work provides a deep dive into the operating system that will teach you how to squeeze every last bit of power and make the most of the features and programs available.

Inside this superbly organized guide, packed with expert advice, you'll find hundreds of timesaving solutions for installing, configuring, managing, and maintaining Windows Server 2016. Topics covered in this book include:

Planning server deployments
Building enterprise solutions
Designing for high availability
Deploying Full-Server and Server Core
Deploying Nano Server and Windows Containers
Managing Boot Configuration Data
Hacking the Registry
Configuring roles and features
Managing server binaries
Selecting hardware components
Managing and troubleshooting hardware
Performing diagnostics and troubleshooting
Configuring event forwarding
Tracking server health and performance
Optimizing server performance
And much, much more!!

This book, Installing & Configuring Windows Server 2016, is designed to be used with other volumes in the Tech Artisans Library, which together provide a definitive resource for all of the core features and enhancements in Windows Server 2016. Windows Server expert William Stanek doesn’t just show you the steps you need to follow, he tells you how features work, why you would want to configure them, and how you can optimize them to meet your needs.

Windows Server 2016 is Microsoft’s most powerful, versatile and fully featured operating system yet. Get this book and the others in the Tech Artisans Library to conquer it from the inside out.