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MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-640): Configuring Windows Server 2008 Active Directory

Tony Northrup, Dan Holme

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Announcing an all-new Self-Paced Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on 70-640, the required exam for the new Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration certification. This 2-in-1 kit includes the official Microsoft study guide, plus practice tests on CD to help you assess your skills. It comes packed with the tools and features 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. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for skills and expertise that you can apply to the job.

Work at your own pace through the lessons and lab exercises. Focusing on Active Directory in Windows Server 2008, this official study guide covers configuring, managing, and supporting user and computer accounts, groups, Domain Name System zones and client settings; group policy objects; the new Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service and Active Directory Rights Management Service; backup and recovery; and communication security.

Then assess yourself using 300+ practice and review questions on the CD, which features multiple, customizable testing options to meet your specific needs. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives. 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 and an exam discount voucher making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.

Key Book Benefits:

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

300+ practice and review questions

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

Complete objective-by-objective review section, plus a 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

MCPD Self-Paced Training Kit (Exams 70-536, 70-528, 70-547): Microsoft .NET Framework Web Developer Core Requirements

Tony Northrup, Shawn Wildermuth, Glenn Johnson, Brian C. Lanham

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Get in-depth training and practice with the skills measured by the core exams for Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Web Developer certification--all in one box! Covering Exams 70-536, 70-528, and 70-547, 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 labs and exercises for skills and expertise you can apply to the job.

Work at your own pace through the lessons and hands-on exercises. Focusing on designing and developing Web-based applications, these official study guides cover topics such as Microsoft .NET Framework fundamentals; creating, configuring, deploying, and supporting applications; designing and developing the user interface; threading, instrumentation, and reflection; using Microsoft ASP.NET state management; and authentication, authorization, and user security.

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.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with SP1: Tony Redmond's Guide to Successful Implementation

Tony Redmond

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Exchange 2007 represents the biggest advance in the history of Microsoft Exchange Server technology. Given Exchange's leap to x64 architecture and its wide array of new features, it isn't surprising that the SP1 release of 2007 would be particularly robust in terms of hotfixes, security enhancements and additional functionality.

Tony Redmond's upgraded edition of his popular Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 bible features extensive coverage of the significant changes and additions offered with SP1. Every chapter has been updated, with particular focus on the most pivotal aspects of SP1, including:

*install enabling on Windows Server 2008
*IVp6 support
*Unified Messaging inclusion
*EMC enhancements
*Client Access Improvements for Outlook Web Access and Activesync
*New user interfaces for POP3 and IMAP4
*System resource monitoring and message routing improvements
*New features for the mailbox server role
*.pst file data managment improvements
*new high-availability features
*optimization for mobile access
*and much more!

*Complete coverage of all the updates in SP1 ensure admins skip the initial 2007 release's bugs and upgrade with ease

*Written by HP Services CTO Tony Redmond, the world's most trusted author of Exchange books for over a decade

*250+ pages of updates throughout, including totally new sections on Windows 2008 compatibility, Microsoft Yona, Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1 devices, Apple iPhone, and more!

Apache Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Apache Administrators

Rich Bowen, Ken Coar

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There's plenty of documentation on installing and configuring the Apache web server, but where do you find help for the day-to-day stuff, like adding common modules or fine-tuning your activity logging? That's easy. The new edition of the Apache Cookbook offers you updated solutions to the problems you're likely to encounter with the new versions of Apache. Written by members of the Apache Software Foundation, and thoroughly revised for Apache versions 2.0 and 2.2, recipes in this book range from simple tasks, such installing the server on Red Hat Linux or Windows, to more complex tasks, such as setting up name-based virtual hosts or securing and managing your proxy server. Altogether, you get more than 200 timesaving recipes for solving a crisis or other deadline conundrums, with topics including: Security Aliases, Redirecting, and Rewriting CGI Scripts, the suexec Wrapper, and other dynamic content techniques Error Handling SSL Performance This book tackles everything from beginner problems to those faced by experienced users. For every problem addressed in the book, you will find a worked-out solution that includes short, focused pieces of code you can use immediately. You also get explanations of how and why the code works, so you can adapt the problem-solving techniques to similar situations. Instead of poking around mailing lists, online documentation, and other sources, rely on the Apache Cookbook for quick solutions when you need them. Then you can spend your time and energy where it matters most.

iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Applications Using the Open Source Tool Chain

Jonathan Zdziarski

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"Great for beginners -- even if you don't know object-oriented programming, you can learn from examples on the 'Net and be on your way very soon. You will be able to confidently build apps that rival the ones included by Apple itself." -- Josh Content, iPhone Developer Developers everywhere are eager to create applications for the iPhone, and many of them prefer the open source, community-developed tool chain to Apple's own toolkit. In this new edition of iPhone Open Application Development, author Jonathan Zdziarski covers the latest version of the open toolkit -- now updated for Apple's iPhone 2.x software and iPhone 3G -- and explains in clear language how to create applications using Objective-C and the iPhone API. Zdziarski, who cracked the iPhone code and built the first fully-functional application with the open toolkit, includes detailed recipes and complete examples for graphics and audio programming, games programming with the CoreSurfaces and CoreImage interfaces, working with iTunes, and using sensors. With the open toolkit and this book, you can build iPhone applications that: Display status bars, preference tables, and other standard elements of the iPhone user interface Play pre-recorded files or program-generated sounds Read and write plain text files and HTML files, including pages from the Web, and control display elements, such as scrollbars Read and respond to changes in orientation when the user turns the phone around

And more. The first edition of this book developed an instant following and became the center of a movement. The second edition of iPhone Open Application Development will make this open source toolkit an indispensable part of iPhone applicationdevelopment.

Inside Microsoft® SQL Server(TM) 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization

Kalen Delaney, Sunil Agarwal, Craig Freedman, Ron Talmage, Adam Machanic

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Books Online gone prolix 2 out of 5 stars.
17 of 19 people found this review helpful.

I was disappointed with this book, which I bought together with SQL Tuning by Dan Tow, hoping to get well-digested expert advice. SQL Tuning was all that I hoped for, and I highly recommend it.

This book, though, has that creepy quality so common to MSFT Press books, where very knowledgeable people, usually connected with the MSFT development teams, list feature after feature in long, passive-voice descriptions, failing to discriminate for the reader and advise as to what is useful and what is not. You have the sense that they spent lots of time at trade shows touting the latest horde of "features", and little time coding under the strain of deadlines and client expectations. To them, every SQL Server nuance is always useful and wonderful and should get fair mention :(

This is a simple example, but SQL Tuning tells me that table scans are normally fine when selecting above 20% of rows, and index seeks are good for row counts under a percent, the space between depending on circumstance (which gray space the book goes on to address). This book, meanwhile, provides no real guidance, and tells me that table scans can be good, and indexes are useful too, and that SQL Server handles both nicely, and that the optimizer selects one or the other, and that it uses iterators, and that they are important, and that you can see what the optimizer has selected, and that you can change that if you want, and that you can automate the change, and that you can document the change, and here are the 4 related undocumented stored procs, and that this is new for 2005, and that there are other related matters, and that SQL Server has all this. Thanks!

Seems they are always plugging the product and never can admit to having suffered with its complexity. The recommendations, if you get them, are always muted by a kool-aid soaked affinity for SQL Server, which does all things well and will never fail to offer just the feature you need to succeed.

The book runs very long and strikes me as a big core dump on 3,000 topics, none of which seem prioritized or emphasized in distinct categories. Sure, the book has distinct chapters into which related material is dumped, but this fails to serve as **guidance**, which is what you are buying the book for. Not written by people in the trenches. Not recommended unless you want to buy some additional MSFT documentation.

Editorial Review:

Dive deep into the internals of query tuning and optimization in SQL Server 2005 with this comprehensive reference. Understanding the internals of SQL Server helps database developers and administrators to better create, access, and effectively process information from enterprise data. Written by experts on SQL Server, this volume from the Inside Microsoft SQL Server series of books focuses on query tuning and optimization. You'll take an in-depth look at the best ways to make queries more efficient and effective, while maximizing existing resources. Includes extensive code samples and table examples to help database developers and administrators understand the intricacies and help promote mastery of query tuning and optimization.

Cisco Voice over IP (CVOICE) (Authorized Self-Study Guide) (3rd Edition) (Self-Study Guide)

Kevin Wallace

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Authorized Self-Study Guide

Cisco Voice over IP (CVOICE)

Third Edition

 

Foundation learning for CVOICE exam 642-436

 

Kevin Wallace, CCIE No. 7945

 

Cisco Voice over IP (CVOICE), Third Edition, is a Cisco-authorized, self-paced learning tool for CCVP foundation learning. This book provides you with the knowledge and skills required to plan, design, and deploy a Cisco voice-over-IP (VoIP) network and to integrate gateways and gatekeepers into an enterprise VoIP network. By reading this book, you will gain a thorough understanding of converged voice and data networks and also the challenges you will face implementing various network technologies.

 

Cisco Voice over IP (CVOICE) presents you with information on the foundational elements of VoIP calls, the description of dial plans, and the implementation of gateways, gatekeepers, and Cisco Unified Border Elements (Cisco UBEs). The book gives you the information needed to implement and support data and voice integration solutions at the network-access level.

 

Whether you are preparing for CCVP certification or simply want to gain a better understanding of VoIP fundamentals, you will benefit from the foundation information presented in this book.

 

Cisco Voice over IP (CVOICE), Third Edition, is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from

Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit http://www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

 

Kevin Wallace, CCIE No. 7945, is a certified Cisco instructor, and he teaches courses in the Cisco CCSP, CCVP, and CCNP® tracks. With 19 years of Cisco networking experience, Kevin has been a network design specialist for the Walt Disney World Resort and a network manager for Eastern Kentucky University.

 

• Integrate VoIP into an existing data network
• Design a VoIP network for optimal voice quality
• Examine the various call types in a VoIP network
• Configure analog voice interfaces and dial peers
• Perform call signaling over digital voice ports
• Implement H.323, MGCP, and SIP protocols on Cisco IOS® gateways
• Identify dial plan characteristics
• Configure advanced dial plans
• Deploy H.323 gatekeepers
• Implement a Cisco UBE router to provide protocol interworking

 

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains a bonus 90 minutes of video demonstrations. Watch the author perform fundamental CVoice configuration tasks in a series of six video-on-demand labs.

 

This volume is in the Certification Self-Study Series offered by Cisco Press. Books in this series provide officially developed self-study solutions to help networking professionals understand technology implementations and prepare for the Cisco Career Certifications examinations.

 

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed

Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris, Mark Weinhardt

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This is the ultimate guide to the design, migration, implementation, administration, management, and support of an Exchange Server 2007 environment. The recommendations, tips, and tricks covered are based on more than two years of early adopter implementations of Exchange 2007. The authors highlight the features and functions that organizations both large and small have found to be the important components in Exchange 2007, including the new Outlook Web Access mail, functions that better support mobile devices, server-to-server mailbox replication for better data recovery, and integrated voicemail unified messaging.

 

Detailed information on how to…

• Plan your implementation and migration to Exchange 2007
• Confirm that your architecture of Exchange 2007 meets best practices
• Build a lab environment to test that your migration, implementation, and support processes are valid
• Implement Cluster Continuous Replication for effective disaster recovery of a failed Exchange server or site
• Integrate Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging into an existing telephony environment
• Optimize Exchange 2007 for a scalable enterprise environment
• Administer and support Exchange on an ongoing basis

 

Introduction

Part I    Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Overview

1 Exchange Server 2007 Technology Primer   

2 Best Practices at Planning, Prototyping, Migrating, and Deploying Exchange Server 2007

Part II    Planning and Designing an Exchange Server 2007 Environment

3 Understanding Core Exchange Server 2007 Design Plans

4 Architecting an Enterprise-Level Exchange Environment

5 Integrating Exchange Server 2007 in a Non-Windows Environment

6 Understanding Network Services and Active Directory Domain Controller Placement for Exchange Server 2007

Part III    Implementing Exchange Server 2007 Services

7 Installing Exchange Server 2007

8 Implementing Edge Services for an Exchange Server 2007 Environment

9 Using the Windows PowerShell in an Exchange Server 2007 Environment

Part IV    Securing an Exchange Server 2007 Environment

10 Client-Level Secured Messaging

11 Server and Transport-Level Security

12 Encrypting Email Communications with Exchange Server 2007

13 Securing Exchange Server 2007 with ISA Server

14 Understanding Enterprise Policy Enforcement Security

Part V    Migrations and Coexistence with Exchange Server 2007

15 Migrating from Windows 2000 Server to Windows Server 2003

16 Migrating to Exchange Server 2007

17 Implementing Client Access and Hub Transport Servers

18 Administering an Exchange Server 2007 Environment

19 Exchange Server 2007 Management and Maintenance Practices

20 Using Microsoft Operations Manager to Monitor Exchange Server 2007

21 Using Terminal Services to Manage Exchange Servers

22 Documenting an Exchange Server 2007 Environment

Part VII    Unified Communications in an Exchange Server 2007 Environment

23 Designing and Implementing Mobility in Exchange Server 2007

24 Designing and Configuring Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2007

25 Collaborating Within an Exchange Environment Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

26 Extending the Real-Time Communications Functionality of Exchange Server 2007

Part VIII    Client Access to Exchange Server 2007

27 Getting the Most Out of the Microsoft Outlook Client

28 Leveraging the Capabilities of the Outlook Web Access (OWA) Client

29 Using Non-Windows Systems to Access Exchange Server 2007

30 Deploying the Client for Microsoft Exchange

Part IX    Data Protection and Disaster Recovery of Exchange Server 2007

31 Continuous Backups, Clustering, and Network Load Balancing in Exchange Server 2007

32 Backing Up the Exchange Server 2007 Environment

33 Recovering from a Disaster in an Exchange Server 2007 Environment

Part X    Optimizing Exchange Server 2007 Environments

34 Optimizing an Exchange Server 2007 Environment

35 Designing and Optimizing Storage (SAN/NAS) in an Exchange Server 2007 Environment

Index

Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming (Programmer to Programmer)

Robert Vieira

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Surely Disappointed. 2 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

I just bought 2 copies this book based on the reviews and the cost. I planned on using it to teach someone about SQL Server, using SQL Server 2005 Express edition. Well, for teaching purposes, this book is very disappointing. It is however, comprehensive in terms on making knowledgeable many aspects of SQL Server. But if you plan on self-teaching yourself SQL Server, this book lacks. The book does explain all the objects in SQL Server, including as it seems all software books, his personality laced diatribe. But it doesn't explain how to use the objects well. Just trying to learn T-SQL, it doesn't demonstrate or give any examples how to use each command or keyword in length. And there's just a hint of exercises in the back of the chapter to help the learner practice some more. And the book also assumes you have somewhat developed on SQL Server. What?! It's a beginners book.

Now I have to come up with full lesson plans, since this book doesn't even make a dent in doing so.

In conclusion, the book explains a plethora of objects. But if you are wanting to self teach, it will be difficult to learn with this book.

Just want a book that removes individual diatribes, gives many examples of each function, provides many exercises to further practice, with answers. This book doesn't fit the bill.

Editorial Review:

• After a quick primer on database design basics and the SQL query language (for those programmers who may be building their first database application), this book provides an overview of SQL Server itself, which has been dramatically redesigned with the 2005 release
• Once readers have grasped the fundamentals of database design and SQL concepts, they will then learn how to implement those concepts with Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Addresses creating and changing tables, managing keys, database normalization, writing scripts, working with stored procedures, programming with XML, and using SQL Server reporting and data transformation services
• The companion Web site provides all of the code found in the book

Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Resource Kit

Stan Riemer, Conan Kezema, Mike Mulcare, Byron Wright

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Exceptional recource for 2K8 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

Just as Mr. Mulcare wrote the definitive resource for AD on Win2K3,
Active Directory for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Technical Reference (Pro-Technical References) he has done it again with this resource kit. His knowledge of the product and ability to pass along critical information on Active Directory is exceptional. Keep up the good work and I look forward to whatever you write for Win7!

Editorial Review:

Get the definitive, in-depth resource for designing, deploying, and maintaining Windows Server 2008 Active Directory in an enterprise environment. Written by experts on directory services and the Active Directory team at Microsoft, this technical resource is packed with concrete, real-world design and implementation guidance. You ll get in-depth guidance on installation, Active Directory components, replication, security, administration, and more. You also get answers to common questions from network architects, engineers, and administrators about Windows Server 2008 Active Directory plus scripts, utilities, job aids, and a fully searchable eBook on CD.