Two volumes in one. A fantasy novel for adults, Lilith is the story of the aptly named Mr. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys into another world into which it leads him. Encountering one mystery after another, he explores the mystery of humanity's fall from grace--and of their redemption. Instructed into the ways of seeing the deeper realities of this world--seeing, in a sense, by the light of the spirit--the reader senses that MacDonald writes from his own deep experience of radiance, from a bliss so profound that death's darkness itself is utterly eclipsed in its light. "I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly. In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly represents the spiritual world, or our own world revealed in all of its depth and meaning. At times almost forthrightly allegorical, at other times richly dreamlike (and indeed having a close connection to the symbolic world of dreams), this story of a young man who finds himself on a long journey through a land of fantasy is more truly the story of the spiritual quest that is at the core of his life's work, a quest that must end with the ultimate surrender of the self. The glory of MacDonald's work is that this surrender is both hard won (or lost ) and yet rippling with joy when at last experienced. As the narrator says of a heavenly woman in this tale, "She knew something too good to be told." One senses the same of the author himself. Both Lilith and Phantastes, meant to be read together, are included in this comprehensive volume.

"Windows Server 2012 Security from End to Edge and Beyond" shows you how to architect, design, plan, and deploy Microsoft security technologies for Windows 8/Server 2012 in the enterprise. The book covers security technologies that apply to both client and server and enables you to identify and deploy Windows 8 security features in your systems based on different business and deployment scenarios. The book is a single source for learning how to secure Windows 8 in many systems, including core, endpoint, and anywhere access.

Authors Tom Shinder and Yuri Diogenes, both Microsoft employees, bring you insider knowledge of the Windows 8 platform, discussing how to deploy Windows security technologies effectively in both the traditional datacenter and in new cloud-based solutions. With this book, you will understand the conceptual underpinnings of Windows 8 security and how to deploy these features in a test lab and in pilot and production environments.

The book's revolutionary "Test Lab Guide" approach lets you test every subject in a predefined test lab environment. This, combined with conceptual and deployment guidance, enables you to understand the technologies and move from lab to production faster than ever before. Critical material is also presented in key concepts and scenario-based approaches to evaluation, planning, deployment, and management. Videos illustrating the functionality in the Test Lab can be downloaded from the authors blog http: //blogs.technet.com.b.security_talk/. Each chapter wraps up with a bullet list summary of key concepts discussed in the chapter.
Provides practical examples of how to design and deploy a world-class security infrastructure to protect both Windows 8 and non-Microsoft assets on your systemWritten by two Microsoft employees who provide an inside look at the security features of Windows 8 Test Lab Guides enable you to test everything before deploying live to your system"

Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Cookbook is a highly practical cookbook for beginner-intermediate use to get you started with a variety of SCEP tasks, as well as providing a sneak peek at a full SCEP walkthrough to give you some real world context. If you are a System Administrator or Engineer using System Center 2012 EndPoint Protection, then Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Cookbook is for you. You should have a good background with Microsoft products in general, although no knowledge of EndPoint Protection is required.

A step-by-step tutorial with plenty of code and examples to improve your learning curve. If you are a developer and want to create installers for software targeting the Windows platform, then this book is for you. You'll be using plenty of XML and ought to know the basics of writing a well-formed document. No prior experience in WiX or Windows Installer is assumed. You should know your way around Visual Studio to compile projects, add project references and tweak project properties.

This book is written in practical cookbook style with plenty of vivid, practical recipes to help you master Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager. Each chapter contains step-by-step instructions about everything necessary to execute a particular task. The book is designed so that you can read it from start to end for beginners; or just open up any chapter and start following the recipes as a reference for advanced users. This book will be useful to IT professionals including System Center Service Manager administrators who want to configure and administer System Center Service Manager 2012 and understand how to solve specific problems and scenarios that arise while using System Center Service Manager. It will also be useful to users of 2010 in learning new features and capabilities.

Windows 8 has been described by Microsoft as its 'boldest' Windows release ever. Beginning Windows 8 takes you through the new features and helps you get more out of the familiar to reveal the possibilities for this amazing new operating system. You will learn, with non-technical language used throughout, how to get up and running in the new Windows interface, minimize downtime, maximize productivity, and harness the features you never knew existed to take control of your computer and enjoy the peace of mind and excitement that comes with it. From tips and tweaks to easy-to-follow guides and detailed descriptions, this book takes you inside Windows 8 to discover the true power and flexibility that lies within, and guides you at your own pace through getting the very best from it.What you'll learn *About the ins and outs of the Windows 8 interface and its new features *How to install and configure Windows 8 to give trouble-free performance *How to personalize your Windows experience *How to use your computer to connect to devices and services in the home, at work, and on the move *How to maximize your productivity with Windows 8 *How to secure and configure Windows 8 to guarantee a safe and secure experience Who this book is for Beginning Windows 8 is for people new to Windows or who just want to get up to speed with Windows 8. This book also can help people who already know how to perform routine tasks learn how to get more out of Windows, their computer and their time. Whether you want to get up and running with Windows 8, or want to go to the next level and learn useful ways to minimize problems, maximize performance, and optimize your overall Windows expereince, this book is for you.

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Get the job done and learn as you go. A how-To book with practical recipes accompanied with rich screenshots for easy comprehension. The How-to style is a very practical book which will take the reader through the process of garnering a basic understanding of TFS and Project Server with practical tutorials and recipes. This book is for users who want to integrate TFS 2012 and Project Server 2010. Readers are expected to know some basic Windows Server commands and account management, and have administrative access to the servers being configured.

Microsoft Windows 7 - A Complete How-To Guide is to help both home users, who want to get familiar with Windows 7, and systems administrators who want to deploy Windows 7 as client operating system in a production network setup. The guide is in very simple and easy-to-understand language and is deliberately written in this way to let everyone get the most out of it. This guide covers almost every aspect of Microsoft Windows 7 which will help readers customize the operating system exactly according to their personal, professional and organizational requirements.

The Network Migration Workbook - 2nd Edition for 2012 - gives you everything you need to migrate a Windows network - with emphasis on the SBS 2011, SBS 2008, and SBS 2003 environments. It won't fit in your back pocket. It's on full letter size paper and it's 536 pages But it definitely has everything you need. The authors start with a discussion of the entire process so you see the big picture. The authors talk about the scope of work and how critical it is to your internal processes and your relationship with the client. Next, they introduce the pre-discovery process. That means making a list of all the things you need to discover so you really understand the project. After the pre-discovery is complete, you can quote the project. They lay out a process based on 10+ years of SBS Migration experience. The book divides the migration into seven distinct stages. It shows you how to estimate the labor required for each stage. So you can always create a quote that's exactly suited for each client. Those seven stages become seven service requests. You and the client agree on everything. As you finish each stage, you track every minute of every job. ALL work is inside the scope of the project. If it's not inside the scope, then it must be outside the scope. In that case, you create a new service request that's billable. The client agrees because they've bought in from the beginning. Now you've delivered your migration project on time and inside the budget. All other work is outside the scope of the migration project and therefore billable. Don't worry. The authors show you how to complete every piece of this process. Includes Excel spreadsheets with quotes, the wording for the service requests, and click-by-click every keystroke it takes to deliver a migration with zero downtime. This process has been used successfully in network migrations small and large - all around the world - in thousands of networks. Zero Downtime means that all client operations remain "live" while you migrate the servers, desktops, and databases during normal business hours. Because the old system remains completely intact, you can now have stress-free migrations that can be scheduled over time. No more evening and weekend migrations No more client downtime

Microsoft Windows 7 - A Complete How-To Guide is to help both home users, who want to get familiar with Windows 7, and systems administrators who want to deploy Windows 7 as client operating system in a production network setup. The guide is in very simple and easy-to-understand language and is deliberately written in this way to let everyone get the most out of it. This guide covers almost every aspect of Microsoft Windows 7 which will help readers customize the operating system exactly according to their personal, professional and organizational requirements.

Editorial Review As the backbone to so many commercial communications infrastructures, Microsoft's Exchange Server technology has become a critical component in many an IT department. With the latest incarnation of Exchange Server on the horizon, and indeed almost upon us, it is becoming increasingly urgent that SysAdmins get to grips with this latest-and-greatest technology. What's new? What's gone? What's easier or harder? Jaap touches upon all these essentials. As a practical field-guide to Exchange Server 2010, this book will tell you exactly what you need to know to get started with upgrading, installing, configuring and managing your new Exchange Server. If you need to get to grips with Exchange Server 2010 fast, or want a short, to-the-point, practical guide to Microsoft's latest offering, then you should read this book. Table of Contents * Chapter 01: Introduction to Exchange Server 2010 * Chapter 02: Installing Exchange Server 2010 * Chapter 03: Exchange Server 2010 Coexistence * Chapter 04: Managing Exchange Server 2010 * Chapter 05: High Availability in Exchange Server 2010 About the Author Jaap Wesselius is a senior Exchange consultant for DM Consultants (http: //www.dm-consultants.nl/), a Microsoft Gold Partner with a strong focus on messaging and collaboration solutions. Prior to working for DM Consultants Jaap worked for 8 years for Microsoft Services in The Netherlands, specializing in Exchange Server. Jaap is a BSc, MCSE, MCITP, and MCT and was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award (Exchange Server) for his contributions to the Dutch messaging and collaboration community. Besides Exchange Server, Jaap is also very active in virtualization and is a founder of the Dutch Hyper-V community. You can reach Jaap at [email protected] or [email protected]

The Practical Guide to Windows Web Server 2008 R2

Improve the consistency of your IT infrastructure and build the next web server with Windows 2008 R2. This book is a step-by-step guide to setting up your server from scratch. Configure IP addresses, host names, DNS services, firewall with advanced security, IIS with Apache side-by-side, and more. Discover the easy way to get going with Windows Web Server Safety of fallback mechanisms when something goes wrong You will be delighted how straightforward the configuration is Easy way to fully test web sites and apps before deployment Save time and money by standardizing your operating systems Get proven reliability with fast results

Prepare for Exam 70-410 and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Windows Server 2012 core infrastructure services. Exam 70-410 is one of three required exams for the new MCSA: Windows Server 2008 certification from Microsoft.

Organized by exam objectives, and featuring challenging, what-if scenarios, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical skills and knowledge needed to implement and configure Windows Server 2012 core services in an enterprise environment.

Validate your expertise on these exam objectives: Install and Configure ServersConfigure Server Roles and FeaturesConfigure Hyper-VDeploy and Configure Core Network ServicesInstall and Administer Active DirectoryCreate and Manage Group Policy

This book can serve as a pocket guide to the IT professionals (especially administrators and desktop engineers) to make their daily IT related tasks easier. This pocket guide is written keeping in mind that the administrators who are new to the industry and the students who are at their initial learning stages may get benefited with the contents that this guide contains. This guide contains simple How-To tips along with the descriptions explaining which GPO affects what part of the operating system. The guide is in very simple and easy-to-understand language and is deliberately written in this way to let everyone get the most out of it.

Are you ready for Windows 7? Microsoft's newest operating system is taking the computing world by storm with its great new features and improved system performance. Now, thanks to our latest Superguide, learning Windows 7 just got a whole lot easier. Whether you are new to computers or just new to Windows 7, this Superguide will help you to get the most out of the new operating system. The book contains 345 pages with lessons and pictures. Get the most out of your new computer or operating system upgrade investment with the Windows 7 Superguide. There really is no better Windows 7 beginners book available anywhere on the internet. The Windows 7 Superguide is an essential purchase for all new Windows 7 users. Technical support for all the topics covered in this book is available directly from the author at forum.top-windows-tutorials.com/

This is a book for curious people. It attempts to answer the basic question "how does it work?" As such, it does not explain how to call documented APIs and DDIs to accomplish some specific goal. There is plenty of information available on these subjects, including the MSDN Library, the WDK documentation and several excellent books. Rather, its purpose is to analyze how the Virtual Memory Manager works, simply because it is something worth knowing. With a certain mindset, it might even be something fun to know. Even though this book gives a fairly detailed description of the Virtual Memory Manager, it is not reserved for experienced kernel level programmers. Parts I and II provide information on the x64 processor and enough details on kernel mode code execution to help readers approaching these subjects for the first time. This book describes the Windows 7 x64 implementation of the Virtual Memory Manager. All of the analysis and experiments have been performed on this particular version only.

This book can serve as a pocket guide to the IT professionals (especially administrators and desktop engineers) to make their daily IT related tasks easier. This pocket guide is written keeping in mind that the administrators who are new to the industry and the students who are at their initial learning stages may get benefited with the contents that this guide contains. This guide contains simple How-To tips along with the descriptions explaining which GPO affects what part of the operating system. The guide is in very simple and easy-to-understand language and is deliberately written in this way to let everyone get the most out of it.

Imagine if you could sit with a book for three hours and learn hassle-free ways to unleash your personal productivity. These 99 Windows(r) 7 and Office 2010 tips will save you precious minutes every day, leading to a new efficient you This book will teach you ready to use tips that you can apply in your day-to-day work and be efficient from the first few tips. Not only could you save several minutes a day (depending on your PC time ), but you will also be envy of your coworkers, and will soon be the go-to person for master tips in the office and among your friends. You will be able to reinvent your work in subtle but significant ways to a new work lifestyle. If you are a training manager or responsible for employee development in your company, you should look into how these tips can add significant productivity and save money across your organization. Imagine if you could learn in a few pages how to: Build custom rules to suit your own unique work style Get through your e-mail far more efficiently Create Quick Steps and templates for repetitive tasks Win the admiration of your coworkers, friends and family for your PC Skills Highlights Easy, numbered steps Screen images to help you try the tips on your own Cheat sheets to help you practice these tips in your daily wo

Windows Server 2008 R2 & SQL Server 2008 R2 High Availability Clustering (Project Series) If you're looking for a book that takes the latest Microsoft and iSCSI SAN high availability technologies and puts them all together into one step by step project, then this book is for you The world of high availability and clustering is evolving faster than ever and is definitely a very exciting place to be. Windows Server 2008 R2 & SQL Server 2008 R2 have opened up the world of high availability, clustering, virtualization, live migration and failover technologies to the small and medium size companies by including it with the server's license. Accompany this new software technology with multi-core processors and you have a very powerful and cost effective combination by being able to run many redundant virtual machines across a few physical servers. Once you've finished reading this book you will be able to build highly available environments from the ground up for any of your complex application servers that you need redundant ASAP. You will gain praise from your company by increasing their uptime and productivity, while at the same time greatly reducing your burden of maintenance by being able to update critical application servers at any time. This book guides the IT novice to the professional from start to finish in building a complex and highly available system for their real world enterprise applications. Microsoft's new technology is complex and needs to be put together in a chronological order where by each new part is built upon its prerequisites. To build a truly high performance and fully redundant system the author will guide you through designing and building each part of your environment from your iSCSI network, SAN disk layout, to your Windows and SQL clusters. Once you have your highly available foundation in place the author spends considerable time guiding you through how to deploy your enterprise applications into your new cluster environment. By utilizing Microsoft's Network Load Balancer (NLB), SQL Reporting Services Scale-out Deployment (SSRS), and Windows clusters for generic applications and services you will be able to make most any enterprise application highly available. The book's project covers step by step how to deploy Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 into a clustered environment as a real world example. Once complete with the creation of your highly available environment you will have virtual machines that can live migrate between physical hosts, redundant database servers, network load balanced front-end servers, highly available reports and a completely redundant iSCSI network in place. You will learn how to Build & Configure the following technologies Step by Step in this book. iSCSI Multi-path Input/Output (MPIO) technology iSCSI Switches & SAN's for High Performance & Redundancy SAN Disk Layout for High Performance Clustering Windows Server 2008 & R2 Clusters Windows Live Migration Clusters with Clustered Shared Volume (CSV) Disks SQL 2008 & R2 Clusters SQL Disks for High Performance SQL Reporting Services Scale-out Deployments for High Availability Windows Network Load Balancer (NLB) Clusters Windows Clusters for Third Party Applications & Services Deploying Enterprise Applications into a Clustered Environment Deploying Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 into a Clustered Environment CRM 4.0 Security, Reporting, Internet Facing Deployment (IFD), Email Router for High Availability WWW.SCREAMPUBLICATIONS.COM

A reference book for technical support and escalation engineers troubleshooting and debugging complex software issues. The book is also invaluable for software maintenance and development engineers debugging Windows applications and services.

Learn about how to use Microsoft Windows XP and Vista operating systems with Reg's Practical Guide to Understanding Computers. This book will cover the following topics that applies to Windows XP and Vista: 1. Learning computer terminology 2. Learning about how to use the Desktop, search for things on your computer and changing your screensaver 3. How to get on to and use the Internet and using E-Mail to contact friends and family 4. How to properly backup and restore your computer in case of a system crash so that you don't lose the information you have stored on your computer 5. How to properly maintain your computer to prevent viruses, malware, Identity theft or any other issues with your computer 6. Creating separate users on your computer