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Active Directory Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Robbie Allen, Laura Hunter

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Total reviews: 76 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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If you're among those looking for practical hands-on support, help is here with "Active Directory Cookbook," Second Edition, a unique problem-solving guide that offers quick answers for Active Directory and updated for Window Server 2003 SP1 and R2 versions.

The book contains hundreds of step-by-step solutions for both common and uncommon problems that you're likely to encounter with Active Directory on a daily basis--including recipes to deal with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), ADAM, multi-master replication, Domain Name System (DNS), Group Policy, the Active Directory Schema, and many other features. Author Robbie Allen, a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, MVP for Directory Services, and co-author of "Active Directory," Third Edition and Laura E. Hunter, MVP for Windows Server-Networking and author of several books, have based this collection of troubleshooting recipes on their own experience, along with input from Windows administrators. Each recipe includes a discussion explaining how and why the solution works, so you can adapt the problem-solving techniques to similar situations.

This best selling book provides solutions to over 300 problems commonly encountered when deploying, administering, and automating Active Directory to manage users in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. The recipes include: creating domains and trusts renaming a domain controller finding users whose passwords are about to expire applying a security filter to group policy objects checking for potential replication problems restricting hosts from performing LDAP queries viewing DNS server performance statistics

This Cookbook is a perfect companion to "Active Directory," ThirdEdition, the tutorial that experts hail as the best source for understanding Microsoft's directory service. While "Active Directory" provides the big picture, "Active Directory Cookbook" gives you quick solutions you need to cope with day-to-day dilemmas. Together, these books supply the knowledge and tools so you can get the most out of Active Directory to manage users, groups, computers, domains, organizational units, and security policies on your network.

Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Göran Husman

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

The Best Book for SharePoint out there!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
14 of 14 people found this review helpful.

This is the second SharePoint book I bought and once again this is the best and only book you need to deploy and engineer SharePoint Services or Server 2007. I am planning on upgrading our SharePoint 2.0 to Portal 2007 and this book gives enough information. Highly recommend this book to anyone who is in the process of deploying, engineering and supporting SharePoint Portal or Services.

Sr. Systems Engineer

Make sure this is your first SharePoint book 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

SharePoint technologies is much more different than any other Microsoft technologies. You can install SQL Server or Microsoft.NET or Visual Studio with ease and start working on the product right away.

Regardless of what your role in your organization - programmer, power user, administrator, architect - one thing is must that if you want to learn SharePoint, you need to understand how to install and configure WSS and MOSS servers. It has many installtion models and one must learn what they are installing and what services they are configuring before creating first site collection or site to host team site or portal site.

That's where this book comes in picture. Forget that its part of Wrox's Beginning series and make sure this is your first SharePoint book at any cost. After first chapter of SharePoint introduction, Goran takes us through the WSS and MOSS installation and Configuration process in next 4 chapters. Understanding basics and what's going on behind the installtion and configution process is one of the key fundamentals one must know to be a great SharePoint programmer or administrator. Once you install and configure the product, make sure to go through Chapter 6 and 8 for advanced configurations and overview of outofbox WSS and MOSS site templates.

Although I have mixed opinion on remaining chapters - Office Integration, WCM, Document Management, and SharePoint designer, I must say this book is worth to have in your bookshelf for key WSS and MOSS installtion and configuration topics.

Nik

Editorial Review:

While the main focus of this book is on SharePoint administration, you will also learn how to customize SharePoint by creating templates and using SharePoint Designer to enhance the look and feel of SharePoint sites. Microsoft MVP and author Göran Husman explores the differences between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), helps you decide if you need only WSS or if you should also implement MOSS, and much more.

Windows Small Business Server 2008 Unleashed

Eriq Oliver Neale, et al

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Windows Small Business Server 2008 provides all the tools small companies need to improve collaboration, enhance productivity, and manage and secure all their information. In this book, a team of leading SBS experts brings together the in-depth knowledge and real-world insights you need to make the most of this state-of-the-art product.

 

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals Eriq Neale and his colleagues cover every facet of planning, deploying, and managing SBS 2008. The authors begin by showing how to install and configure SBS 2008 for maximum efficiency, performance, and ease of administration. You’ll learn how to securely utilize SBS 2008’s comprehensive Internet, file, and print services; simplify and automate both server and workstation management; and take full advantage of both SharePoint collaboration and Exchange communication tools.

 

This book is packed with expert tips, tricks, and troubleshooting techniques drawn from the authors’ unsurpassed experience helping companies succeed with SBS. Whether you’re a full-time IT professional or a power user who’s managing SBS in your spare time, it will be your most valuable resource.

 

Detailed information on how to...

• Plan, install, configure, and customize SBS 2008 in any environment
• Set up and manage SBS 2008-based networks, Web access, and collaboration–including SharePoint Services 3.0
• Leverage Remote Web Workplace and other advanced remote access solutions
• Manage email and other communications with SBS 2008’s built-in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
• Centrally control Windows Vista, Windows XP, and other clients
• Seamlessly integrate Macintosh computers into your Windows network
• Protect your servers and workstations against both internal and external threats
• Prepare backups and disaster recovery plans you can actually use in an emergency
• Streamline and automate administration using Microsoft PowerShell

 

Foreword     xxvii

Introduction     1

 Book Overview     2

 

Part 1 Introduction and Setup

Chapter 1 Welcome to Small Business Server 2008     5

 History of the SBS Product     5

 BackOffice Small Business Server 4.0     6

 BackOffice Small Business Server 4.5     7

 Microsoft Small Business Server 2000     7

 Microsoft Small Business Server 2003     8

 Essential Server Solution Family      9

 Features of SBS 2008     9

 Communication     9

 Collaboration     10

 Protection     11

 Expansion     12

 Limitations of SBS 2008     13

 Hardware Limitations     13

 Software Limitations     14

 Support for SBS 2008     14

 Community Support     14

 Online Support     15

 Official Product Support     16

 

Chapter 2 Planning for the SBS 2008 Deployment     17

 Knowing the Client Base     17

 Understanding How the Server Will Be Used     18

 Planning for Correct Licensing.      19

 Planning the Hardware     22

 Planning the Network     23

 Changes in Network Options from Previous Versions     23

 Connection to the Internet     23

 IP Address Ranges     24

 DHCP Configuration      25

 Public and Private Domain Names     26

 Planning the Storage Layout     26

 Changes in Storage from Previous Versions     27

 Multiple Partitions Versus Multiple Spindles     27

 Minimum Partition/Spindle Sizes     28

 Fault Tolerance     29

 Backup Technologies     32

 

Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring SBS 2008     35

 Preparing for SBS 2008 Installation     36

 Collecting Information for the Setup Process     36

 Configuring the Internal Network     37

 Disabling DHCP on the Network     37

 Installing SBS 2008     38

 Collect the Initial Setup Data     38

 Prepare the Disk Infrastructure     38

 Complete Setup     40

 Performing the Initial Configuration of SBS 2008     45

 Run the Connect to the Internet Wizard     45

 Install Security Updates     48

 Run the Set Up Internet Address Wizard     48

 Complete Other Setup Tasks     54

 Troubleshooting SBS 2008 Installation Issue     57

 Log Files     57

 Setup Issues     57

 Known Installation Issue     59

 

Part 2 Managing Network and Web Configuration

Chapter 4 DNS, DHCP, and Active Directory Integration     63

 Understanding the Role of DNS and DHCP     63

 Native Tools     64

 Preparations and Caveats     67

 Default Configuration of DNS and DHCP     67

 Securing DNS and DHCP     70

 Securing DNS     70

 Securing DHCP     71

 New in SBS 2008     72

 Adding DNS Records     75

 Reserving IP Addresses in DHCP Server     76

 Troubleshooting     78

 Event Log Errors     78

 Dcdiag     79

 Ping     80

 NSLookup      81

 Can’t Resolve a Host or Web Site Name     81

 ISP’s DNS Server Is Down     82

 DNS Returns a Bad Location     82

 Curse of the Hosts File     82

 There’s a Rogue DHCP Server     82

 

Chapter 5 Internet Information Services 7.0     85

 The Web Sites Under the Hood     85

 External-Facing Web Sites Included with SBS 2008     86

 Internal Web Sites Included with SBS 2008     86

 Additional Web Sites That Can Be Combined with SBS 2008     87

 Protecting the Server     87

 Default SBS Web Sites     88

 Integration with SharePoint     89

 ...

Mastering Windows Server 2003

Mark Minasi, Christa Anderson, Michele Beverridge, C. A. Callahan, Lisa Justice

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Total reviews: 96 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

If you're a current or aspiring Windows administrator or consultant, look no further than Mastering Windows Server 2003 for the in-depth, comprehensive, unbiased, and highly readable (some would even say entertaining) coverage readers have come to expect from the leading Windows authority, Mark Minasi. Building on the solid foundation established over years of working with and writing on Windows products, Mark Minasi takes you where few have ventured within Windows Server 2003, Microsoft's flagship network operating system that provides a solution for file and printer sharing, secure Internet connectivity, centralized desktop application deployment, and rich collaboration between businesses, employees, and customers. Anyone evaluating or planning a deployment of .NET Server will benefit immeasurably from Mark Minasi's detailed discussion of Windows Server 2003 installation, configuration, and essential operations. Mark Minasi is a regular keynote speaker at major IT conferences across the country. His training seminars sell out months in advance.

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit

Jochen Kunert with the Microsoft OCS Team, Jeremy Buch, Rui Maximo

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OCS Resource Kit Review 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

The OCS 2007 Resource Kit is a must have for any OCS administrator. It has all the details about Office Communicator you need to fully support and understand this complicated product. It has all the WMI settings that any admin would need to make changes to there environment. Also detailed diagnostic information about IM, Conferencing, Telephony is fully exposed in their respective chapters. I highly reoommend it.

Editorial Review:

Get the definitive reference for deploying, configuring, and supporting Office Communications Server 2007 with expert insights direct from the Microsoft Office Communications Server Team. This official Microsoft RESOURCE KIT delivers in-depth technical guidance on architecture, deployment, security, administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting Communications Server 2007. You ll also discover the essential information for working with VOIP and phone integration features. In addition, you get more than 150 timesaving scripts, tools, and other job aids for automating administration, plus an eBook for the entire RESOURCE KIT on CD.

Provides the information that every administrator needs about troubleshooting, security enhancements, phone integration, VOIP, group policy and automating administration

CD includes additional job aids and a fully searchable version of the entire RESOURCE KIT book

Outlook 2003 for Dummies

Bill Dyszel

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outlook 2003 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 6 people found this review helpful.

Very user friendly. I learned several tips that will be very helpfull.

No Set Up Instruction 2 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This book tells how to do a lot with Outlook, but doesn't give the reader a clue how to set it up in the first place. Given the technical terms used by ISPs, it would have been useful to have some definitions and examples of setup. I can't use the book until I somehow figure that out.

Editorial Review:

* Covers everything the reader needs to know to organize e-mail, schedules, and other necessary information as conveniently and quickly as possible.
* Includes information on sending and saving e-mail messages; managing e-mail with folder and filtering options; storing and viewing contacts and distribution lists; scheduling appointments; creating to-do lists with Outlook's built-in task feature; using electronic sticky notes; journaling day-to-day activities; and much more.
* Outlook is the email client of choice for Office users, especially in business settings.
* Microsoft Office has over 120 million users worldwide and currently holds 900f the market share for productivity suites.

Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (Pro-Administrator's Pocket Consultant)

William R. Stanek

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EXCELLENT BOOK FOR ADMINISTRATORS AND DEVELOPERS 5 out of 5 stars.
19 of 20 people found this review helpful.

Sometimes when I read reviews people have written I wonder if they've actually read the book or simply thumbed through it in a bookstore or did a search of the pages. This is an excellent book and I've found it to be extremely helpful in setting up and configuring SQL Server 2005. This book isn't meant to be an allinone monster book, its a concise, focused book covering the core of SQL Server 2005, particularly for administrators but also extremely helpful for developers who are setting up sql boxes too. If you are developing databases for SQL Server 2005 you'll need a focused development book too especially if you are doing datawarehousing or datamart work or reporting services.

I got more out of this book's 548 pages than books nearly twice as big. The book has T-SQL examples throughout and I've used them for administration. The book has excellent coverage of SQL security, nearly 100 pages of security information covered in Chapter 3 "Managing Security, Access, and Network Configuration" and in Chapter 8 "Managing SQL Server 2005 Security". Excellent coverage of log shipping and database mirroring. The book covers schemas for administration perspectives but not in a database development perspective.

I used this book to gain a solid understanding of SQL Server 2005 setup, configuration and management. I refer to it all the time.

This is a great book for your everyday needs and I use it all the time. Highly recommended.

Editorial Review:

Here’s the utterly practical, pocket-sized reference for IT professionals who need to administer, optimize, and maintain Microsoft SQL Server 2005 in their organization. This unique guide provides essential details for using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to help protect and manage your company’s data—whether automating tasks; creating indexes and views; performing backups and recovery; replicating transactions; tuning performance; managing server activity; importing and exporting data; or performing other key tasks. Featuring quick-reference tables, lists, and step-by-step instructions, this handy, one-stop guide provides fast, accurate answers on the spot—whether you’re at your desk or in the field!

Windows Server 2003 for Dummies

Ed Tittel, James Michael Stewart

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Annoying 2 out of 5 stars.
3 of 12 people found this review helpful.

This book, like so many, is among the annoying books that pretend to offer everything to a "dummy"

The first couple of chapters look innocent and make you think that you are going to get alot of knowledge out of this book, but as you get to the chapters that are most important, the simplicity and clearity of the text is thrown out the window. He starts using terminology without defining it, doesn't break things down, and is just plain confusing.

The approach is this:
A is for apple.
B is for bat.
E = m c Squared.

The customer looks at the first few chapters and buys the book.
[...]

Editorial Review:

The perfect handbook for those who need to deploy, install, and configure installations, upgrade from previous versions, understand network addresses, manage day-to-day operations, configure storage, manage users and groups, implement security measures, configure mail services, and perform other vital administrative tasks.
Covers the enhanced features and updates of the new version including the Microsoft .NET framework, Active Directory and its new drag and drop object management, Internet Information Server, and the Microsoft Management Console.

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

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!