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

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. The Authorized Guide to Citrix XenApp Platinum Edition for Windows Design, deploy, and maintain a virtualized, on-demand enterprise application delivery infrastructure. Citrix XenApp Platinum Edition for Windows: The Official Guide explains how to ensure high availability, enhance productivity, and reduce costs using the powerful features of XenApp. Configure your hardware, install XenApp, handle remote and wireless access, and manage an end-to-end, centralized application delivery system. You'll also learn how to monitor, tune, and secure XenApp using the latest tools and techniques. Configure VPNs using Citrix Access Gateway Authenticate users with Citrix Password Manager and Single Sign-On Assign granular control policies with Citrix SmartAccess Secure XenApp using firewalls, certificates, encryption, IDS, and IPS Monitor and test your system using Citrix EdgeSight and Citrix SmartAuditor Develop fail-safe disaster recovery and business continuity plans Optimize transmission speed, disk throughput, and memory usage

In just 24 sessions of about an hour, you'll learn how to build robust, efficient business workflows with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds the real-world foundation you need to succeed with WF from the ground up. Filled with hands-on code examples, this book walks you through creating every type of workflow supported by .NET 3.5's powerful new version of WF. One step at a time, you'll discover how to host workflows, manage workflow lifecycles, integrate with Web services and WCF applications, create custom activities, and moreeverything you'll need to solve real-world problems with WF! Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common WF questions, issues, and tasks. Q&As help you build and test your knowledge. Notes point out shortcuts, solutions, and potential problems to avoid. New terms are clearly defined and explained. Learn how to... Understand the value of workflows and their role in general .NET and advanced business process management systems Run workflows from and exchange data with .NET applications Create sequential, state-machine, and data-driven workflows Define multi-level approval workflows that execute in parallel and escalate Develop rulesets and manage them from SQL databases Track your workflows to make them more agile and governable Use Dynamic Update to change running workflows Work with exceptions, compensation, and transactions Expose workflows as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services and call Web services from workflows via WCF Expose workflows as Web services and call Web services from workflows Create basic, queued, event-driven, and composite custom activities

If you work in an office, you probably don't lose much sleep worrying about whether your files are safe if your PC melts down. Company IT departments handle those things for business networks. But how about all those precious photos, address lists, the family genealogy, and everything else that lives on your home network? Windows Home Server can save the day if one of your personal PCs hiccups, and "Windows Home Server For Dummies" serves up all the stuff you need to know to put it to work.

Forget everything you've heard about previous versions of Windows Server; this all-new variation has been designed for people who don't wear white lab coats or pocket protectors. Woody Leonhard has tested it and it passed with flying colors. If you have a home or small business network, this book shows you how Windows Home Server helps youShare files among all the PCs in your homeAccess your files from anywhereMake regular backups automaticallyStore files securelyPlay music, TV shows, or movies on your XboxShare multimedia across your networkKeep your virus protection and system upgrades up to dateGet regular reports on the overall health of your network

"Windows Home Server For Dummies" provides sage advice on choosing a version of Windows Home Server, installing it, setting up users and passwords, using remote access, scheduling automatic scans and backups, and having fun with multimedia. Trust Woody-- you'll sleep better.

This book is perfect for any network administrator looking to push their servers to improved performance or to perform uncustomary tasks. Provides undocumented techniques for installation, networking, multimedia tools, disk checking, migration (single and multiCPUs), backup, IIS tuning, Active Directory, memory, upgrades, and much more.

Discover the fastest way to migrate to Windows Server 2003 and begin to profit from its enterprise-ready features. Learn how to use the parallel network - a migration approach that provides constant rollback and limited impact on your existing network. Build your new network from the ground up. Begin by designing your Enterprise Network Architecture and then move on to feature by feature implementations. Learn to make the most of Active Directory as an object management environment to remotely configure PCs, Servers, Users and Groups.

* Shows how to improve Windows desktop and server security by configuring default security before installing off-the-shelf security products* Educates readers about the most significant security threats, building the ultimate defense, operating system hardening, application security, and automating security* As a security consultant, the author has an impressive record-of his clients, not one who followed his recommendations has suffered a virus, worm, Trojan, or successful hacker attack in the past five years* The companion Web site includes author-created custom security templates and group policies that will automate advice given in the book

Windows 2003 Server is unquestionably the dominant enterprise level operating system in the industry, with 95% of all companies running it. And for the last tow years, over 50% of all product upgrades have been security related. Securing Windows Server, according to bill gates, is the company's #1 priority.
The book will start off by teaching readers to create the conceptual design of their Active Directory infrastructure by gathering and analyzing business and technical requirements. Next, readers will create the logical design for an Active Directory infrastructure. Here the book starts to drill deeper and focus on aspects such as group policy design. Finally, readers will learn to create the physical design for an active directory and network Infrastructure including DNS server placement; DC and GC placements and Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) role placement.
The next book in our best selling and critically acclaimed How to Cheat series. This is the perfect book for users who have already purchased How to Cheat at Managing Windows 2003 Small Business Server.
* Active Directory is the market leader in the directory services space, and 57% of all Microsoft corporate customers have deployed AD
* Follows Syngress's proven "How To Cheat" methodology
* Companion Web site offers dozens of templates, "Cheat Sheets," and checklists for readers

Working with Microsoft's network directory service for the first time can be a headache for system and network administrators, IT professionals, technical project managers, and programmers alike. This authoritative guide is meant to relieve that pain. Instead of going through the graphical user interface screen by screen, O'Reilly's bestselling "Active Directory" tells you how to design, manage, and maintain a small, medium, or enterprise Active Directory infrastructure.

Fully updated to cover Active Directory for Windows Server 2003 SP1 and R2, this third edition is full of important updates and corrections. It's perfect for all Active Directory administrators, whether you manage a single server or a global multinational with thousands of servers.

"Active Directory, 3rd Edition" is divided into three parts. Part I introduces much of how Active Directory works, giving you a thorough grounding in its concepts. Some of the topics include Active Directory replication, the schema, application partitions, group policies, and interaction with DNS. Part II details the issues around properly designing the directory infrastructure. Topics include designing the namespace, creating a site topology, designing group policies for locking down client settings, auditing, permissions, backup and recovery, and a look at Microsoft's future direction with Directory Services. Part III covers how to create and manipulate users, groups, printers, and other objects that you may need in your everyday management of Active Directory.

If you want a book that lays bare the design and management of an enterprise or departmental Active Directory, then look no further. "Active Directory, 3rdEdition" will quickly earn its place among the books you don't want to be without.

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Tired of putting up with Windows XP migraines? Heres just the remedy you need. Arranged by ailment, this diagnostic guide helps you pinpoint and treat problems quickly and easily. The book is packed with potent cures for a variety of anxieties, covering everything from the display settings and start menu to software and utilities to hardware and peripherals to Internet connections and networking--and much more. Youll also find fully up-to-date coverage of Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the latest multimedia tools including Windows Media Player 10. Say goodbye to your Windows XP headaches and start enjoying peak system performance! Cure every kind of Windows XP problem imaginable, including: . . Interface, settings, start menu, and task bar hassles . File and folder foul ups. Password and permissions pains. Hardware and peripheral pet peeves. Software struggles. Hard and removable disk distresses. Internet connection and Web browser ills. Spyware and adware aggravations . Service Pack 2 maladies. Networking nuisances . Printer, camera, and scanner stresses. Media Player 10 and Movie Maker 2 troubles. Performance migraines. System crashes and boot failures. .

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Curt Simmons is a technology expert and trainer who has been working with Windows XP since its early testing days. He is the best-selling author of more than 50 computer books, including "How to Do Everything with Windows XP" and "How to Do Everything with Your Blackberry," both from McGraw-Hill/Osborne..

Practice the Skills You'll Need on the Job!

Perfect for both classroom and self-paced learningLabs that challenge you to solve problems based on realistic case studies Step-by-step scenarios that require you to think critically Post-lab observation questions that measure your understanding of lab results and key term quizzes that help build your vocabulary Back-of-book solutions that explain not only what happened, but why

In this lab manual, you'll practice: Installing the Components of Active Directory Configuring and Troubleshooting Active Directory Managing Software and Network Configuration Using Group Policy Installing and Configuring the RIS Service Using Remote Installation Service to Install the Client Machine Managing, Monitoring, and Optimizing Active Directory Objects Implementing Active Directory Security Solutions Reducing Latency in DNS Replication

This is the definitive resource for every network administrator, consultant, and architect who needs to maximize availability, scalability, and performance in Windows server environments.

Drawing on two decades of Windows server experience, Jeffrey Shapiro and Marcin Policht have written the most realistic, comprehensive, and independent Windows high availability guide ever published. One step at, a time, they help you plan, implement, and manage clustering, load balancing, fault tolerance, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and much more. Along the way, they address crucial high availability topics that are virtually ignored by most books, such as disaster recovery, performance monitoring, and operations management.

Shapiro and Policht offer a clear, concise roadmap for keeping Windows servers running 24x7 and delivering on even the most challenging service-level agreements. They provide real-world case studies and easy-to-use instructions designed to help readers make better decisions more rapidly.

Coverage includes

Building the foundations for a highly available Active Directory and network architecture

Selecting and integrating high-performance hardware, storage, and networks

Installing and configuring Windows Clustering Services for both scale-out and failover

Leveraging the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Microsoft Systems Architecture (MSA)

Delivering high-performance, high availability file- and print-server solutions

Using clustering to maximize SQL Server and Exchange Server availability

Restoring failed servers: best practices and step-by-step techniques for recovering from downtime or disaster

Deploying Network Load Balancing (NLB) IIS andapplication servers

Administering Windows Server 2003 high-performance systems--including performance monitoring and alerts with Microsoft Operations Manager

Avoiding the pitfalls associated with Windows high availability solutions
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This inexpensive primer is light on idle chat and heavy on practical advice. Lean and mean, it’s packed with just what you need to know to get up and running with Windows XP. Designed to deliver regardless of your experience with computers or operating systems.

Substantial interest in VPN has been created by concerns for privacy and data protection. You, the administrator must be aware of security concepts and network designs, and yet, customers require flexible network environments that will satisfy the needs of today's computer users. You must support laptop users, home LAN environments, complex branch offices, and more--all within a secure and effective network design. The way you implement VPNs in Windows 2000 is different than any other operating system. Windows 2000 Virtual Private Networking will cover all aspects of both the tunnel client. Microsoft is using PPTP, L2TP and IPSec all in this one product and the configuration of both tunnel and transport configuration can be very complex. This book covers what you, the network designer can do with this capability; new VPN features that can affect Active Directory replication; network address translation; Proxy and more will be covered in depth.

Real-World Projects and Exercises Designed to Accompany the "MCSA Managing a Windows 2000 Network Environment Study Guide

Practice the Skills You'll Need on the Job!

Perfect for both classroom and self-paced learningLabs that challenge you to solve problems based on realistic case studies Step-by-step scenarios that require you to think critically Post-lab observation questions that measure your understanding of lab results and key term quizzes that help build your vocabulary End-of-chapter solutions that explain not only what happened, but why

In this lab manual, you'll practice: Configuring and troubleshooting TCP/IP Implementing and troubleshooting Name Resolution Configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Domain Name System (DNS) Installing and authorizing DHCP Servers Creating and configuring Domain User Accounts Implementing security policies Publishing resources in Active Directory Deploying software with Group Policies Implementing Terminal Services for Remote Access Configuring Network Address Translation (NAT) and Internet Connection Sharing Installing and configuring server and client hardware

Step-by-step tutorials cover all the essential aspects of migrating, deploying, networking, and administering Windows Server 2003. You’ll discover many ways to foster the exchange of information and computer resources among people, systems, and devices. Make your organization more efficient with Windows Server 2003.

Learn to manage, administer, and troubleshoot Windows 2000 using the Windows Script Host (WSH) This expertly written resource explains how to automate tedious tasks at the command line or from within the Windows GUI. Youll learn to implement the latest versions of VBScript, JScript, ADSI, and WMI and avoid commonly overlooked Windows 2000 pitfalls and scripting errors.

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Take full advantage of the strength and reliability of Oracle9"i and the management features of Windows 2000. Written by the experts and authorized by Oracle Corporation, Oracle9"i for Windows 2000 Tips & Techniques presents insider best practices for installation, upgrades, migration, tuning, backup and recovery, clustering, and high availability. You'll also get in-depth details on the new features of Oracle9"i.Configure Oracle9"i on Windows 2000 as a management platform, database client, and database server Ease administrative tasks with database templates and Oracle Managed Files Monitor and manage Oracle to maximize available memory, CPU, and I/O Use Oracle9"i Recovery Manager for backup, restore, and recovery Implement Standby Databases for greater availability Use Oracle9"i Oracle Enterprise Manager for enterprisewide database administration Execute clustering and high availability solutions, using Microsoft Cluster Server, Oracle Failsafe, and Real Application Clusters Implement Advanced Replication to provide database load balancing, disaster recovery, and offline distributed transaction processing

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Perfect for both classroom and self-paced learningLabs that challenge you to solve problems based on realistic case studies Step-by-step scenarios that require you to think critically Post-lab observation questions that measure your understanding of lab results and key term quizzes that help build your vocabulary End-of-chapter solutions that explain not only what happened, but why

In this lab manual, you'll practice: Performing an Upgrade to Windows 2000 Troubleshooting a Failed Windows 2000 Installation Installing Windows 2000 using the System Preparation Tool Installing Service Packs Creating and Managing Drives and Folders Auditing Logon and File Access Activity Assigning Group and User Permissions to Resources Configuring a custom Default User Profile Controlling the Desktop with Group Policy Securing the Logon Process and the Desktop Configuring VPN Connections Configuring Accessibility Options

Get in-depth coverage of how to configure and manage the networking features and components of Windows XP Professional with this authoritative guide. You’ll find professional-level information for utilizing remote assistance, configuring the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF), monitoring network performance, and much more.

Get comprehensive coverage of XP Professional security with this definitive and focused resource. Work with firewalls and intrusion detection systems, fully utilize XP’s built-in support tools, manage security remotely, and much more.

Get more out of Windows XP using this concise and straightforward guide. Including useful shortcuts and little-known navigation tips, as well as coverage of more advanced topics--such as networking, this organized guide provides you with hundreds of solutions that you can put to use immediately.

Build the skills youll need for on-the-job success! Inside, youll find numerous laboratory exercises with solutions, step-by-step scenarios that require you to think critically, post-lab analysis questions and key term quizzes, and back-of-book solutions that explain not only what happened, but why.