Jordan Krause - Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook

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Jordan Krause is a six-time Microsoft MVP, currently awarded in the Cloud and Datacenter Management category. He has the unique opportunity to work daily with the Microsoft networking and remote access technologies as a Senior Engineer at IVO Networks. Jordan specializes in Microsoft DirectAccess and Always On VPN. Committed to continuous learning, Jordan holds certifications as an MCP, MCTS, MCSA, and MCITP Enterprise Administrator, and regularly writes articles reflecting his experiences with these technologies. Jordan lives and works in beautiful west Michigan (USA).

Florian Klaffenbach is a solutions architect and consultant for Microsoft Infrastructure and cloud, specialized in Microsoft Hyper-V, Fileservices, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and Microsoft Azure IaaS. He is also a cochairman of the Azure Community Germany. In April 2016, Microsoft awarded Florian the Microsoft Most Valued Professional for Cloud and Datacenter Management. Currently, he is working at MSG service AG as a senior consultant of Microsoft cloud infrastructure.
He has also worked on many books by Packt Publishing.

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Microsoft is the clear leader of server racks in enterprise data centers across the globe. Walk
into any backroom or data center of any company and you are almost guaranteed to find
the infrastructure of that organization being supported by the Windows Server operating
system. We have been relying on Windows Server for more than 20 years, and rightfully so
nowhere else can you find such an enormous mix of capabilities all provided inside one
installer disc. Windows Server 2016 continues to provide the core functionality that we have
come to rely upon from all previous versions of Windows Server, but in better and more
efficient ways. On top of that, we have some brand new capabilities in Server 2016 that are
particularly mind-bending, new ways to accomplish more efficient and secure handling of
our network traffic and data.

There is a relevant question mixed into all this server talk, We hear so much about the
cloud. Isnt everyone moving to the cloud? If so, why would we even need Windows Server
2016 in our company? There are two different ways to answer this question, and both
result in having huge benefits to knowing and understanding this newest version of
Windows Server. First, there really arent that many companies moving all of their
equipment into the cloud. In fact, I have yet to meet any business with more than 10
employees who has gone all-in for the cloud. In almost all cases, it still makes sense that you
would use at least one on premise server to manage local user account authentication, or
DHCP, or print services, or for a local file server-the list goes on and on. Another reason
companies arent moving to the cloud like you might think they are is security. Sure, we
might throw some data and some user accounts to the cloud to enable things like federation
and ease of accessing that data, but what about sensitive or classified company data? You
dont own your data if it resides in the cloud you dont even have the capability to
manage the backend servers that are actually storing that data alongside data from other
companies. How can you be guaranteed of your datas security and survival? The ultimate
answer is that you cannot, though there are steps being made in this direction. This alone keeps many folks that I have talked to away from moving some of their information to a cloud service provider.