Month: November 2012

Title: Windows Server® 2012 Pocket Consultant
By: William R. Stanek
Publisher:Microsoft Press
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: September 2012
Ebook: September 2012
Pages: 720
Print ISBN: 978-0-7356-6633-7| ISBN 10:0-7356-6633-4
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7356-6632-0| ISBN 10:0-7356-6632-6

Portable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers ready answers for the day-to-day administration of Windows Server 2012. Zero in on core operations and daily tasks using quick-reference tables, instructions, and lists. You’ll get the focused information to solve problems and get the job done—whether at your desk or in the field.

Get fast facts on these essential topics:

• Managing servers running Windows Server 2012
• Creating user and group accounts
• Monitoring services, processes, and events
• Administering Active Directory
• Managing files, folders, drives
• Automating administrative tasks and policies
• Administering data sharing, security, and auditing
• Managing TCP/IP networking
• Implementing data backup and recovery
• Administering network printers and print services

William R. Stanek

William R. Stanek is a Microsoft MVP with 20+ years of experience in system management and advanced programming. He is an award-winning author who’s written more than 100 books, including Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant and Windows Server 2008 Inside Out. He is the series editor for the Pocket Consultant line of books.

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Title: Training Guide: Installing and Configuring Windows Server® 2012
By: Mitch Tulloch
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: November 2012
Ebook: October 2012
Pages: 640
Print ISBN: 978-0-7356-7310-6| ISBN 10:0-7356-7310-1
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7356-7305-2| ISBN 10:0-7356-7305-5

Designed to help enterprise administrators develop real-world, job-role-specific skills—this Training Guide focuses on deploying and managing core infrastructure services in Windows Server 2012. Build hands-on expertise through a series of lessons, exercises, and suggested practices—and help maximize your performance on the job.

This Microsoft Training Guide:

• Provides in-depth, hands-on training you take at your own pace
• Focuses on job-role-specific expertise for deploying and managing Windows Server 2012 core services
• Creates a foundation of skills which, along with on-the-job experience, can be measured by Microsoft Certification exams such as 70-410

Coverage includes:

• Deploying Servers and Domain Controllers
• Remote Management
• Administering Active Directory
• Network Administration
• Using Group Policy
• Provisioning and Managing Storage
• Deploying Hyper-V Hosts
• Deploying and Managing Virtualized Workloads
• Deploying File Servers
• Managing Print Services

Mitch Tulloch

Mitch Tulloch is a widely recognized expert on Windows administration and has been awarded Microsoft MVP status for his contributions supporting those who deploy and use Microsoft platforms, products, and solutions.

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Title: Exam Ref 70-417: Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA Windows Server® 2012
By: J.C. Mackin
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: November 2012
Ebook: October 2012
Pages: 384
Print ISBN: 978-0-7356-7304-5| ISBN 10:0-7356-7304-7
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7356-7299-4| ISBN 10:0-7356-7299-7

Prepare for Exam 70-417—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Windows Server 2012 core infrastructure services. Microsoft Exam 70-417 is an upgrade exam that is a composite of three standalone exams: 70-410, 70-411, and 70-412. Exam 70-417 validates skills related to the core technology features and functionality of Windows Server 2012, from the existing knowledge base of a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) on Windows Server 2008.

Exam Ref is organized by exam objectives and features challenging, what-if scenarios that focus on the critical skills and knowledge measured by the certification exam.

When you pass Exam 70-417, you complete the requirements for the MCSA: Windows Server 2012 certification. It also counts as credit toward MCSE: Server Infrastructure and MCSE: Desktop Infrastructure (additional exams required).

Objectives include:

EXAM 70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012

• Install and Configure Servers
• Configure Server Roles and Features
• Configure Hyper-V
• Install and Administer Active Directory

EXAM 70-411: Administering Windows Server 2012

• Deploy, Manage, and Maintain Servers
• Configure Network Services and Access
• Configure a Network Policy Server Infrastructure
• Configure and Manage Active Directory
• Configure and Manage Group Policy

EXAM 70-412: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services

• Configure and Manage High Availability
• Configure File and Storage Solutions
• Implement Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Configure Network Services
• Configure Identity and Access Solutions

J.C. Mackin

J.C. Mackin, MCITP, MCSE, is a writer, editor, consultant and Microsoft Certified Trainer. He has coauthored several certification-prep books for Microsoft Press, including for Exams 70-642 and 70-647.

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Title: Training Kit (Exam 70-461): Querying Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012
By: Itzik Ben-Gan, Dejan Sarka, Ron Talmage

Publisher: Microsoft Press
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: December 2012 (est.)
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 752 (est.)
Print ISBN: 978-0-7356-6605-4| ISBN 10:0-7356-6605-9
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7356-6604-7| ISBN 10:0-7356-6604-0

Ace your preparation for Microsoft® Certification Exam 70-461 with this 2-in-1 Training Kit from Microsoft Press®. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and practical exercises, and then assess your skills with practice tests on CD—featuring multiple, customizable testing options.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning how to:

• Create database objects
• Work with data
• Modify data
• Troubleshoot and optimize queries

You also get an exam discount voucher—making this book an exceptional value and a great career investment.

Itzik Ben-Gan

Itzik Ben-Gan is a mentor and cofounder of SolidQ. A Microsoft MVP for SQL Server since 1999, Ben-Gan teaches and consults internationally on T-SQL querying, programming, and query tuning. He is the author of Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL Fundamentals and coauthor of Inside Microsoft SQL Server: T-SQL Querying and Inside Microsoft SQL Server:T-SQL Programming. He has written numerous articles for SQL Server Magazine and MSDN, and speaks at industry events such as Microsoft TechEd, DevWeek, PASS, and SQL Server Connections.

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Dejan Sarka

Dejan Sarka is a mentor with SolidQ and focuses on development of database and business intelligence applications. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences such as TechEd, SqlDevCon, and PASS. He is the founder of the Slovenian SQL Server and .NET Users Group. As main author or coauthor, Dejan has written nine books about SQL Server. He has also developed three courses for SolidQ: Data Modeling Essentials, Data Quality and Master Data Management, and Data Mining.

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Ron Talmage

Ron Talmage is a mentor with SolidQ. He is a SQL Server MVP, PASS Northwest US Regional Mentor, and current Chapter Leader of the Redmond-based Pacific Northwest SQL Server Users Group. He has been involved with SQL Server since version 4.21a, and has contributed to numerous SQL Server white papers and articles. His current focus is on database administration for relational data warehouses using SQL Server.

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By: Ryan Troy, Matthew Helmke
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: June 2012
Ebook: June 2012
Pages: 368
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-1447-7| ISBN 10:1-4493-1447-3
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-1446-0| ISBN 10:1-4493-1446-5

With scores of step-by-step solutions, this cookbook helps you work with VMware ESXi in a wide range of network environments. You’ll not only learn the basics—how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines—but also how to overcome the stumbling blocks you’ll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot problems, and deal with security.

This expanded second edition covers recent advances in vCloud Director and vShield cloud security. Ideal for system administrators of any level, VMware Cookbook also includes valuable information to help you determine your virtualization needs.

• Move into the cloud with vCloud Director, and secure virtual datacenters with vSphere
• Secure and monitor your virtual environment from the command line
• Manage disk, SSD, and SAN storage implementation and configuration
• Discover options for managing resources, such as clustering, shares, and hot add/hotplug support
• Configure logical and physical networks, including virtual switches and software and hardware adapters
• Make virtual machine replication easier by automating ESXi installations
• Gain valuable tips for configuration and fine-tuning

Ryan Troy

Ryan Troy has over 12 years of Unix/Linux system administration experience, working in diverse industries that range from web hosting to the newspaper industry. He has written articles for Linux Identity magazine and co-authored articles for Linux+ magazine. He is passionate about virtualization, specifically VMware’s technologies. Ryan also founded the now-official Ubuntu Linux forums (http://www.ubuntuforums.org) in October 2004; he currently serves as technical administrator and chairman of the Ubuntu Forum Council.

One of Ryan’s latest projects has been to architect and build a virtualization infrastructure for a large newspaper chain in Michigan using VMware’s ESX product line along with Dell Equallogic Storage Arrays.

Ryan is also a VMware Certified Professional.

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Matthew Helmke

Matthew Helmke has written articles for magazines such as Linux+ and Linux Identity, helped write Prentice Hall’s The Official Ubuntu Book, and has written and self-published two books about Arabic and Moroccan culture. He first used Unix in 1987 while studying Lisp on a Vax at the university. Currently, he is an active member of the Ubuntu Linux community as an Administrator and Forum Council member for the Ubuntu Forums (ubuntuforums.org), and a member of the membership approval committee for Ubuntu in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He has run a business using only free software, has done some consulting, and is currently working on a master’s degree in Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona.

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