Managing Windows Server with Puppet Part 7: Installing Active Directory

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In this Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to install and configure Active Directory using Puppet.

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Managing Windows Server with Puppet Part 3: Edit the Site Manifest

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you to install modules on your Puppet master and how to open and edit the main site manifest using Secure Shell.

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PowerShell DSC and Puppet — Why It Is Not Either/Or

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith discusses why Puppet and DSC together is often the best configuration management solution in mixed Windows/Linux environments.

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Microsoft DSC Environment Analyzer Creates Compliance Reports for Power BI

Compliance is always a hot topic, so in this Ask the Admin, I’ll look at how Microsoft’s DSCEA can be used to create compliance reports for servers configured using PowerShell DSC.

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Infrastructure-as-Code Part 3: Deploy Active Directory and Certificate Services in Azure

In the final part of this series, Russell Smith shows you how to use the code I created in the previous two installments to provision the resources in Azure.

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Deploy Active Directory and Certificate Services in Azure Using Infrastructure-as-Code — Part 1

In this three-part series, Russell Smith discusses how he deployed an Active Directory forest with 2 domain controllers and a member server running certificate services in Microsoft Azure.

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Deploy Active Directory and Certificate Services in Azure Using Infrastructure-as-Code — Part 2

In part two of this series on deploying Active Directory and a member server running certificate services in Microsoft Azure, Russell Smith shows you how to add a PowerShell Desired State Configuration resource to the project.

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