Windows Server® 2008 For Dummies

Windows Server® 2008 For Dummies®
Published byWiley Publishing, Inc.

If you’re curious, but hesitant, about finding your way around Microsoft’s new Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 For Dummies is the book for you. This friendly reference shows you everything you need to know — from installation and deployment to building and running a Windows Server 2008 network.
Server-based networking really is a big deal, and this 100% plain-English guide helps you make the most of it. You’ll find out about Windows Server 2008’s important functions, capabilities and requirements; develop a network implementation plan; take a step-by-step walkthrough of the installation process; and get valuable tips on how to boost your bandwidth beyond belief! Before you know it, you’ll be configuring connections to the Universe, working with active directory, and treating domains and controllers like old pals.
Discover how to:

• Build and connect your network
• Install and configure Windows Server 2008
• Set up and manage directory services
• Manage users and groups
• Install and manage print servers
• Secure your network
• Troubleshoot active networks
• Plan for installing Active Directory
• Proclaim and manage your own domain
• Resolve names between TCP/IP and NetBIOS
• Manage shares, permissions, and more
• Develop and implement a regular backup protocol

Windows Server 2008 For Dummies may be easy-going, but it’s simply packed with need-to-know stuff that will send you diving into Windows Server 2008 experience just for the fun of it. So start now!

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Sams Windows Server 2008 Unleashed

Windows Serverฎ 2008 Unleashed
ISBN-13: 978-0-672-32930-2
ISBN-10: 0-672-32930-1

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.

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Sams Teach Yourself Windows Server 2008 in 24 Hours

Pub Date: May 14, 2008
Print ISBN-10: 0-672-33012-1
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33012-4
In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be able to install and configure Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and its various services for any size network. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of Windows Server® 2008 from the ground up.

• Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common tasks.
• Q&As at the end of each hour help you test your knowledge.
• By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.
• Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to do something.
• Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

Learn how to

• Install the latest version of the Windows network operating system
• Design and implement Active Directory Forests, Trees, and Domains
• Configure Windows servers for a number of different roles including domain controller, remote access server, file server, print server, Web server, and much more
• Add users to your domainกฏs Active Directory and organize users in groups and organizational units
• Implement network services such as DNS, DHCP, Windows Deployment Services, and Routing and Remote Access
• Secure your servers with the Windows Firewall and IPSec and make your domain more secure using the Active Directory Certificate Services

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Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Step by Step

Author: Michael Halvorson

Paperback: 546 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; Pap/Cdr edition (January 27, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735625379
ISBN-13: 978-0735625372


Teach yourself the fundamentals of working with Visual Basic 2008 one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you re a beginning programmer or new to this specific language, you ll understand the core capabilities and fundamental techniques for Visual Basic 2008 and rapidly build robust, elegant applications. Each chapter puts you to work, showing you how, when, and why to use the latest features of Visual Basic guiding you each step of the way as you create actual components and working applications for Windows. You ll also explore data management and Web-based development topics. PLUS get practice files with sample code and data sets on the companion CD.

Key Book Benefits

• Covers the latest enhancements and features of Visual Basic 2008
• Provides step-by-step guidance on how to use Visual Basic 2008 with Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008 to create smart-client and Web applications
• Features easy-to-follow, logically planned lessons in the popular STEP BY STEP format ideal for anyone with fundamental programming skills
• Includes a companion CD with data sets and code samples

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Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008

Author: Matthew MacDonald

Paperback: 956 pages

Publisher: Apress; 2 edition (November 12, 2007)

Language: English

The most up–to–date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you’ll find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 guides you through Microsoft’s latest technology for building dynamic web sites. This book will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and it assumes only the most basic knowledge of C#.

The book provides exhaustive coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web page and tuning your site for optimal performance. Within these pages, you’ll find tips for “best practices” and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles you need to know in order to be effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will start you off on the track to building real–world web sites right from the beginning—rather than just faking it with simplified coding practices.

By the time you’ve finished the book, you will have mastered the core techniques and have all the knowledge you need to begin work as a professional ASP.NET developer.

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Professional IIS 7 and ASP.NET Integrated Programming

The deep integration of IIS7 and ASP.NET provides both IIS7 administrators and ASP.NET developers with new and exciting programming tools, techniques, and approaches that were not possible with earlier versions of IIS. With this book, Dr. Shahram Khosravi presents you with the only resource to focus exclusively on the key features of this exciting integration.

You’ll get in-depth coverage of all the major systems that make up the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated infrastructure, detailed explanations on how they work, guidance on how to use them in your own applications, and techniques for extending them to meet your application requirements.

Packed with detailed code walkthroughs and in-depth analyses of numerous real-world examples - all written and tested with Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, ASP.NET 2.0, and ASP.NET 3.5 (Visual Studio 2008), this book helps you gain the skills, knowledge, and experience you need to use and to extend the major systems that make up the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated infrastructure.

Some of the key topics covered include:

• How to write integrated IIS7 and ASP.NET code that works with Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, ASP.NET 2.0, and ASP.NET 3.5 (Visual Studio 2008)



• Techniques for implementing and plugging custom HTTP modules, handlers, and handler factories into the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated request processing pipeline



• How to manage the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated configuration system from IIS7 Manager, appcmd.exe, and managed code



• Tips for using the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated declarative schema extension markup language (, , , , and so on) to implement custom configuration sections



• Techniques for using and extending the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated managed code system (ConfigurationElement, ConfigurationElementCollectionBase, ConfigurationSection, ApplicationPool, Site, Application, ServerManager and so on) to add support for custom managed classes



• Tips for extending the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated graphical management system (ModuleServiceProxy, ModuleDialogPage, ModuleListPage, TaskForm, Module, ModuleService, ModuleProvider, TextTaskItem, MethodTaskItem, and so on) to add new graphical components to IIS7 Manager



• Techniques for using and extending the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated providers system (ProviderConfigurationFeature, ProviderConfigurationSettings, IProviderConfigurationService, ConfigurationModuleProvider, and so on) and ways to implement and to plug custom provider-based services into this system and IIS7 Manager



• Ways to use the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated tracing and diagnostics - TraceSource, SourceSwitch, IisTraceListener, EventTypeFilter, RSCA, Request, WorkerProcess, Failed Request Tracing, and so on ASP.NET and Windows Communication Foundation integration in IIS7

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