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• MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exams 70-640, 70-642, 70-643, 70-647): Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise Administrator Core Requirements

  Dan Holme, Nelson Ruest, Danielle Ruest, Tony Northrup, J.C. Mackin, Anil Desai, Orin Thomas, John Policelli, Ian McLean, P. Mancuso, D.R. Miller

  
  Your all-in-one kit for the skills measured by the core exams for Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Enterprise Administrator certification and on the job. Covering Exams 70-640, 70-642, 70-643, and 70-647, these four official Microsoft® study guides provide in-depth exam prep plus practice tests to help maximize your performance.
  
  

  This kit comes packed with the tools and features that exam candidates want most including self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and customizable testing options. It also provides labs and exercises for skills and expertise you can apply to the job.
  
  

  Focusing on Windows Server 2008 enterprise administration, topics include configuring, managing, and supporting user accounts, computer accounts, groups, Domain Name System (DNS) zones and client settings, group policy objects, Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service, and Active Directory Rights Management Service; configuring remote access, Network Access Protection, Network Authentication, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, and DNS Replication; working with Terminal Services, Web services infrastructure and security, Media Server, Windows SharePoint® Services server options, File Server, Print Services, network maintenance, and Simple Network Management Protocol; planning networks and application services; designing core identity and access management components; implementing PKI; and designing virtualization strategy.
  
  

  You ll work at your own pace through the lessons and hands-on exercises. Then assess yourself by using more than 1200 practice and review questions on the CD, which features multiple, customizable testing options. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives or chapters. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get an evaluation version of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition and an exam discount voucher making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.
  

  Key Book Benefits
  

   Excellent value: Four official Microsoft study guides covering the core requirements for MCITP: Enterprise Administrator certification all in one box  In-depth coverage of exam objectives and sub-objectives plus instructive case studies and troubleshooting scenarios to enhance your performance on the job  1200+ practice and review questions  Test engine that enables customized testing, pre-assessment and post-assessment, and automated scoring and feedback  Handy exam-mapping grid  Evaluation version of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition  15 percent exam discount voucher from Microsoft (limited-time offer)  All four study guides in searchable eBook format

  
   

• SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform

  Seth Bates, Tony Smith

  

  Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is the next generation of Microsoft SharePoint technologies. These products expand on SharePoints information-sharing and collaboration capabilities, which allow you to create true enterprise information management, information sharing, and collaboration solutions.

  SharePoint 2007 Users Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform is the follow-up edition to the successful SharePoint 2003 Users Guide (Apress, 2005). This book provides guidance about the new workflows, interface, and other technologies within SharePoint 2007. Authors Seth Bates and Tony Smith describe SharePoint in a variety of environments, and have the expertise and ability to stand behind this useful guidecatered to anyone who works with SharePoint technologies in any capacity.

  
   

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services 2005

  Brian Larson

  

  Microsoft's Reporting Services product is a vital part of the SQL Server 2005 business intelligence platform, but it works with virtually any data source. This hands-on guide explains how to transform data into insightful and interactive Web-based reports using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. With coverage of everything from installation to administration, the book demonstrates how to use this powerful server-based reporting solution to improve business decision-making and facilitate company-wide -- even worldwide -- communication.
  

  
   

• MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exams 70-640, 70-642, 70-646): Server Administrator Core Requirements (PRO-Certification) (PRO-Certification)

  Orin Thomas, Dan Holme, Mitch Tulloch, Ian McLean, Tony Northrup

  
  Get in-depth training and practice with the skills measured by the core exams for Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Windows Server 2008 Administrator certification all in one box! Covering Exams 70-640, 70-642, and 70-646, these three training kits include exam prep and practice tests to help you maximize your performance. You get official Microsoft® study guides, plus practice tests on CD to help you assess your skills. They come packed with the tools and features that exam candidates want most including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and customizable testing options. They also provide case scenarios and exercises for skills and expertise that you can apply to the job.
  
  

  Work at your own pace through the lessons and hands-on exercises. Focusing on administering Windows Server 2008, these official study guides cover topics such as configuring, managing, and supporting user and computer accounts, groups, Domain Name System zones, client settings, and group policy objects; the new Active Directory® Lightweight Directory Service and Active Directory Rights Management Service; configuring remote access, Network Access Protection, Network Authentication, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, and Domain Name System (DNS) Replication; creating virtual machines; installing server core; planning server roles; maintaining server security; planning data storage, network load balancing, and server backups; managing software deployment and versioning; and scheduling server deployments.
  
  

  Then assess yourself by using more than 900 practice and review questions on the CD, featuring multiple, customizable testing options to meet your specific needs. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives or chapters. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 Professional and an exam discount voucher making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.
  

  Key Book Benefits:
  
  

  Excellent value: three official study guides covering the core requirements for MCITP: Windows Server 2008 Administrator all in one box
  

  Comprehensive exam prep study guide written by exam-certified authors
  

  In-depth coverage of exam objectives and sub-objectives plus instructive case studies and troubleshooting scenarios to enhance your performance on the job
  

  900+ practice and review questions
  

  Test engine that enables customized testing, pre-assessment and post-assessment, and automated scoring and feedback
  

  Handy exam-mapping grid
  

  Evaluation version of Windows Server 2008
  

  15 percent exam discount voucher from Microsoft (limited-time offer)
  

  Entire study guide in searchable eBook format

  
   

• Windows Server 2008 Unleashed

  Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Omar Droubi, Ross Mistry, Chris Amaris

  

  Windows Server 2008 Unleashed covers the planning, design, prototype testing, implementation, migration, administration, and support of a Windows 2008 and Active Directory environment, based on more than three and a half years of early adopter experience in full production environments. This book addresses not only what is new with Windows 2008 compared to previous versions of the Windows Server product, but also what is different and how the similarities and differences affect an organization’s migration to Windows 2008. Chapters are dedicated to the migration process from Windows 2000/2003 to Windows 2008, how to properly use Group Policies in Windows 2008, and tips and tricks on managing and administering a Windows 2008 environment.

   

  The authors cover the technologies new to Windows 2008, such as IPv6, Network Access Protection (NAP), Network Policy Server (NPS), Terminal Services Remote Programs, Windows Deployment Services (WDS), Hyper-V virtualization, and more! This book doesn’t just describe the features and functions included in Windows 2008--there are notes throughout the book explaining how organizations have successfully used the technologies to fulfill core business needs. Tips, tricks, and best practices share lessons learned from hundreds of implementations of Windows 2008 in real-world environments.

   

  Detailed information on how to…

  • Plan and migrate from Windows 2000/2003 to Windows 2008
  • Leverage new tools and utilities that simplify system and network administration functions
  • Enable the latest security technologies to improve secured enterprise computing
  • Better manage a Windows 2008 Active Directory environment
  • Optimize a Windows 2008 environment for better scalability and enhanced performance
  • Implement Windows 2008 for better branch office and remote office integration
  • Design a Windows 2008 environment to support the latest in clustering, stretched clusters, fault tolerance, and redundant systems technologies
  • Take advantage of add-on technologies available for Windows 2008, including Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization, Windows Media Services, and IIS 7 web server solutions

   

  Rand, Michael, Ross, and Chris work for Convergent Computing, an IT consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay area that has three and a half years of early adopter experience with Windows 2008. In collaboration with co-author Omar Droubi, the authors helped organizations of all sizes plan, migrate, implement, and test Windows 2008 in production environments. The book was written from direct experiences where Windows 2008 was put into enterprise production environments focused to meet specific strategic business requirements.

   

  Category: Windows Server

  Covers: Windows Server 2008

  User Level: Intermediate--Advanced

   

  Introduction xlix

  Part I: Windows Server 2008 Overview

  1: Windows Server 2008 Technology Primer 3

  2: Planning, Prototyping, Migrating, and Deploying Windows Server 2008 Best Practices 39

  3: Installing Windows Server 2008 and Server Core 73

  Part II: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory

  4: Active Directory Domain Services Primer 105

  5: Designing a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory 139

  6: Designing Organizational Unit and Group Structure 165

  7: Active Directory Infrastructure 185

  8: Creating Federated Forests and Lightweight Directories 217

  9: Integrating Active Directory in a UNIX Environment 235

  Part III: Networking Services

  10: Domain Name System and IPv6 251

  11: DHCP/WINS/Domain Controllers 297

  12: Internet Information Services 331

  Part IV: Security

  13: Server-Level Security 375

  14: Transport-Level Security 399

  15: Security Policies, Network Policy Server, and Network Access Protection 415

  Part V: Migrating to Windows Server 2008

  16: Migrating from Windows 2000/2003 to Windows Server 2008 439

  17: Compatibility Testing for Windows Server 2008 473

  Part VI: Windows Server 2008 Administration and Management

  18: Windows Server 2008 Administration 499

  19: Windows Server 2008 Group Policies and Policy Management 533

  20: Windows Server 2008 Management and Maintenance Practices 581

  21: Automating Tasks Using PowerShell Scripting 639

  22: Documenting a Windows Server 2008 Environment 685

  23: Integrating Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 with Windows Server 2008 715

  Part VII: Remote and Mobile Technologies

  24: Server-to-Client Remote and Mobile Access 737

  25: Terminal Services 783

  Part VIII: Desktop Administration

  26: Windows Server Administration Tools for Desktops 839

  27: Group Policy Management for Network Clients 865

  Part IX: Fault Tolerance Technologies

  28: File System Management and Fault Tolerance 935

  29: System-Level Fault Tolerance (Clustering/Network Load Balancing) 993

  30: Backing Up the Windows Server 2008 Environment 1043

  31: Recovering from a Disaster 1077

  Part X: Optimizing, Tuning, Debugging, and Problem Solving

  32: Optimizing Windows Server 2008 for Branch Office Communications 1111

  33: Logging and Debugging 1145

  34: Capacity Analysis and Performance Optimization 1189

  Part XI: Integrated Windows Application Services

  35: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 1233

  36: Windows Media Services 1281

  37: Deploying and Using Windows Virtualization 1313

  Index 1339

   

  
   

• Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator's Companion

  Steven D. Kaczmarek, Microsoft System Center Team

  
  Get the definitive guide for administering System Center Configuration Manager 2007 straight from an expert. This comprehensive reference delivers all the information you need to plan, design, deploy, and manage mission-critical software updates and help maximize your organization s productivity. This comprehensive administrator s reference drills into Configuration Manager 2007 features and capabilities for change and configuration management for Windows® based desktop and server systems, providing easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for everyday, on-the-job results. The author, a Configuration Manager 2007 expert who has written extensively about the technology, provides in-depth information for remotely installing, administering, diagnosing, and troubleshooting applications, and deploying patches, monitoring system usage, and tracking assets must-know details for protecting and optimizing your technology investment. The companion CD features a fully searchable eBook and job aids.
  

  Delivers expert, end-to-end guidance from a leading System Center Configuration Manager expert
  

  Features easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics
  

  Includes a fully searchable eBook and job aids on CD

  
   

• Windows Server 2008 Inside Out

  William R. Stanek

  
  Learn how to conquer Windows Server 2008 from the inside out! Designed for system administrators, this definitive resource features hundreds of timesaving solutions, expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for administering Windows Server 2008 all in concise, fast-answer format. You will learn how to perform upgrades and migrations, automate deployments, implement security features, manage software updates and patches, administer users and accounts, manage Active Directory® directory services, and more. With INSIDE OUT, you ll discover the best and fastest ways to perform core administrative tasks, with an award-winning format that makes it easy to find exactly the tips, troubleshooting solutions, and workarounds you need. Plus, the companion CD comes packed with a fully searchable eBook and more than 100 timesaving tools and scripts. With INSIDE OUT, you get all muscle and no fluff!
  

  Key Book Benefits
  

  Drills into the features and functions in Microsoft Office Word, delivering comprehensive details but no fluff in a single volume
  

  Includes a companion CD packed with tools, scripts, and a fully searchable eBook

  
   

• iPhone: The Missing Manual

  David Pogue

  

  iPhone: The Missing Manual Sneak Preview: David Pogue's Favorite iPhone Tricks

  The iPhone's finger-driven interface seems natural and obvious. But when you really think about it, making it seem that way was no easy task. There are no menus in the iPhone software, for example, and no checkboxes or radio buttons. Everything on the screen has to be big enough for a fleshy fingertip.

  On the other hand, the finger makes an outstanding pointing device; heck, you've been pointing with it all your life. It's much faster to scroll diagonally with a fingertip, for example, than with fussy adjustments on two different scroll bars.

  Here, then, are some of the iPhone's unadvertised taps, double-taps, and other shortcuts, all culled from iPhone: The Missing Manual.

  Double-Tapping

  Double-tapping is actually pretty rare on the iPhone. It's not like the Mac or Windows, where double-clicking the mouse means "open." On the iPhone, you open something with one tap.

  A double tap, therefore, is reserved for three functions:

  • In Photos, Google Maps, and Safari (the Web browser), double-tapping zooms in on whatever you tap, magnifying it by a factor of two.
  • In the same programs, as well as Mail, double-tapping means, "restore to original size" after you've zoomed in. (Weirdly, in Google Maps, you use a different gesture to zoom out: tap once with two fingers. That gesture appears nowhere else on the iPhone.)
  • When you're watching a video, double-tapping eliminates or restores letterbox bars.

  See, the iPhone's screen is bright, vibrant, and stunningly sharp. It's not, however, the right shape for videos. Standard TV shows are squarish, not rectangular. So when you watch TV shows, you get black letterbox columns on either side of the picture.

  Movies have the opposite problem. They're too wide for the iPhone screen. So when you watch movies, you wind up with letterbox bars above and below the picture. Some people are fine with that. At least when letterbox bars are onscreen, you know you're seeing the complete composition of the scene the director intended. Other people can't stand letterbox bars. You're already watching on a pretty small screen; why sacrifice some of that precious area to black bars? That's why the iPhone gives you a choice. If you double-tap the video as it plays, you zoom in, magnifying the image so that it fills the entire screen. Part of the image is now off the screen; now you're not seeing the entire composition originally broadcast. You lose the top and bottom of TV scenes, or the left and right edges of movie scenes. If this effect winds up chopping off something important--some text on the screen, for example--restoring the original letterbox view is just another double-tap away.

  Secrets of the Sensors

  The iPhone has three cool sensors. First, it has an accelerometer that detects when you've rotated the iPhone into landscape orientation. In programs like Photos, Safari, and iPod, it triggers the screen image to rotate as well.

  Camouflaged behind the black glass where you can't see them except with a bright flashlight are two more sensors: a proximity sensor that shuts off the screen illumination and touch sensitivity when the phone is against your head (it works only in the Phone application), and an ambient-light sensor that brightens the display when you're in sunlight and dims it in darker places.

  Apple says that it experimented with having the light sensor active all the time, but it was weird to have the screen get brighter and darker all the time. So the sensor now samples the ambient light, and adjusts the brightness; it does this only once--each time you unlock the phone after waking it.

  You can use that tip to your advantage. By covering up the sensor (just above the earpiece) as you unlock the phone, you force it to a low-power, dim screen-brightness setting (because the phone believes that it's in a dark room). Or by holding it up to a light as you wake it, you get full brightness. In both cases, you've saved all the taps and navigation it would have taken you to find the manual brightness slider in Settings.

  Earbud Cord Switch

  Without close inspection, you'd have a hard time telling the iPhone's white stereo earbuds apart from a regular iPod's--but don't get them mixed up. The iPhone's earbuds have a tiny, embedded clicker/microphone partway down the right earbud cord.

  That's right, "clicker/microphone." The tiny bulge is the microphone for phone calls. But if you pinch the bulge, you'll find that it clicks.

  • Pinch once to answer an incoming phone call. Pinch for a couple seconds to dump the call to voicemail. (You can also double-tap the Sleep/Wake switch on top of the iPhone to send the call to voicemail.)
  • During music or video playback, pinch once to pause the music; pinch again to resume playback.
  • During music playback, double-pinch to skip to the next song.

  Customizing the iPod Buttons

  The iPod module on the iPhone starts out with buttons along the bottom for summoning four lists: Playlists, Artists, Songs, and Videos.

  But what about Albums? Genres? Composers? They're there, all right, but hidden; you have to tap More to see them.

  But what if you use those lists more often than Artists or Songs? No problem: you can replace one of those starter buttons with a list of your own.

  Tap More, and then tap the Edit button (upper-left corner). You arrive at the Configure screen. Here's the complete list of music-and-video sorting lists: Albums, Podcasts, Audiobooks, Genres, Composers, Compilations, Playlists, Artists, Songs, and Videos.

  To replace one of the four starter icons, use a finger to drag an icon from the top half of the screen downward, directly onto the existing icon you want to replace. It lights up to show the success of your drag.

  When you release your finger, you'll see that the new icon has replaced the old one. Tap Done in the upper-right corner.

  Keyboard Speedups

  Don't bother using the Shift key to capitalize a new sentence. The iPhone does that capitalizing automatically. Don't put apostrophes in contractions, either; the iPhone will put those in for you, too.

  Force Quit, Reset

  The iPhone is pretty darned simple and stable, but it's still a computer. In times of troubleshooting, these tips may come in handy:

  • Force quit a program. Press and hold the Home button for six seconds to force-quit a program that seems to be stuck.
  • Reset. If the entire iPhone locks up--it can happen--press and hold both the Home button and the Sleep/Wake switch for eight seconds. You'll see the screen go black, and then the Apple logo appears as the iPhone reboots.

  
  

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  McCallum's Awesome iPhone Period-Typing Shortcut

  I have in my possession a nugget, a secret bit of iPhone information that's so valuable, such a headache- and time-saver, that I don't know what to do with it.

  One voice in my head says, "Hoard it! Keep it a secret until your book is published! If you reveal it, it'll be all over the Net in hours, and all your competitors' books will have it, too."

  But another voice says, "But this information is too good to keep quiet. Plus, you didn't discover it yourself. And besides, you're not gonna starve, either way."

  Eventually, the second little voice prevailed. I'm going to share with you the solution to one of the most annoying things, if not THE most annoying thing, about typing on the iPhone:

  The punctuation keys and alphabet keys appear in two different keyboard layouts.

  So every time you want to type a period or a comma, it's a three-step, awkward dance: (1) Tap the ".?123" key in the lower left to summon the punctuation layout. (2) Type the period. (3) Type the ABC key in the lower left to return to the alphabet layout.

  Imagine how excruciating it is to type, for example, "a P.O. Box in the U.S.A.!" That's 34 finger taps and 10 mode changes!

  And therefore imagine how thrilled I was to receive an email from reader Andrew McCallum, containing a method of typing a period or a comma with only a SINGLE finger gesture.

  The iPhone doesn't register most key presses until you *release* your finger. But Andrew discovered that the Shift and Punctuation keys register their taps on the *press-down* instead.

  So here's what you can do, all in one motion:

  1. Touch the ".?123" key, but don't lift your finger as the punctuation layout appears.

  2. Slide your finger a half inch onto the period or comma key, and release.

  Incredibly, the ABC layout returns automatically. You've typed a period or a comma with one finger touch instead of three. In fact, you can type ANY of the punctuation symbols the same way.

  This makes a HUGE difference in the usability of the keyboard.

  Type on, bro.

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