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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Copyright 2012
Dimensions: 7″ x 9-1/8″
Pages: 312
Edition: 1st
Book
ISBN-10: 0-321-79991-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-321-79991-3
Unleash the Power of vCenter Orchestrator to Automate Tasks and Improve Efficiency
Today, VMware administrators are responsible for far more infrastructure, servers, and services than ever before. To succeed, they must take full advantage of opportunities to automate and orchestrate their vSphere environments. In Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator, three-time vExpert Cody Bunch shows how to utilize VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) 4.2 to achieve far higher levels of operational efficiency and effectiveness.
Bunch reveals what vCO can do, walks through each step of installation and configuration, explains how its “moving parts” work together, and thoroughly introduces both plug-ins and workflows. Building on this core knowledge, he presents several start-to-finish case studies showing how to use vCO to address real-world challenges ranging from provisioning to snapshots, cluster management to decommissioning.
Whatever your VMware virtualization environment, this book will help you do more with less, save time, eliminate errors, and improve both performance and reliability.
Coverage includes
Understanding how vCO fits into your environment and identifying your best opportunities to use it
Choosing the right installation scenario and efficiently managing the vCO installation process
Configuring vCO: services, passwords, networking, LDAP, databases, SSL, licensing, plug-ins, backup, and more
Interacting with vCO through actions, packages, plug-ins, web views, resources, and workflows
Automating manual tasks with vCO’s extensive workflow library
Creating sophisticated workflows with drag-and-drop components and JavaScript
Using plug-ins to control infrastructure within and around your vSphere environment
Bringing consistency to VM provisioning, overcoming “VM sprawl” and resource contention, and simplifying support
Optimizing VM lifecycle management, all the way through decommissioning
Automating all snapshot monitoring processes and components
Exporting logs, finding/deleting orphaned files, and performing other day-to-day tasks
Efficiently conducting mass VM migrations
Quickly adding vCenter hosts and clusters, configuring shared storage, and adding hosts to new clusters
Using vCO and third-party plug-ins to gain “private cloud” benefits and flexibility.
Language : English Paperback : 288 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ] Release Date : June 2012 ISBN : 1849681120 ISBN 13 : 9781849681124 Author(s) : Jason Langone, Andre Leibovici
Written by VMware experts Jason Langone and Andre Leibovici, this book is a complete guide to planning and designing a solution based on VMware View 5
Secure your Visual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) by having firewalls, antivirus, virtual enclaves, USB redirection and filtering and smart card authentication
Analyze the strategies and techniques used to migrate a user population from a physical desktop environment to a virtual desktop solution
A learn-by-example based approach that focuses on key concepts to provide the foundation to solve real world problems
VMware View is a desktop virtualization solution that helps organizations automate desktop and application management, reduce costs, and increase data security through centralization of the desktop environment.
Written by VMware experts Jason Langone and Andre Leibovici, this book is meant as a guide for architects, solution providers, consultants, engineers and anyone planning to design and implement a solution based on VMware View 5. This book will pull information and expertise from real world scenarios so as to maximize practical learning. It will explain the settings and configurations needed to have a successful desktop virtualization solution as well as the ‘why’ behind the decisions.
This book is not meant to replace the official Administration or Installation Guides for VMware View or ThinApp published by the great people at VMware. The material in this book should be used during the design phase, which is before an implementation is underway. All components of a VMware View solution will be covered.
This book uses case studies from the real world including:
Hotel Kiosk
VDI solution used in a hotel lobby to provide basic connectivity to its guests
Federal agency with classified and unclassified information
VDI used to allow analysts to securely connect to both a classified and unclassified network from the same device
Remote Office
VDI used to provide connectivity to offshore developers
Out-of-band Scientist
VDI used to provide a secure desktop environment to scientists fighting disease in remote locales
Jason Langone
Jason Langone (@langonej) has been involved in VMware solutions for over seven years and has designed and implemented solutions around the world. Langone has a long history of designing VMware-based tools (for example, V-Moses and ESX Recovery Center), as well as designing robust solutions for enterprise customers. Langone spoke at VMWorld 2006 and won a VMware Vanguard Award in 2007 for Best DR Solution. He is a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX), a VMware vExpert, and a VMware Certified Professional (VCP). In addition, Langone has been involved in some of the largest VDI deployments from the Middle East to deployable solutions in the US. Langone maintains a blog dedicated to virtualization and cloud computing at http://www.ThinkVIRT.com
Andre Leibovici
Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) is a leading expert in the current area of virtualization and End User Computing and maintains an award-winning and world-recognized blog. For the last 10 years, his passion and dedication around virtualization and End User Computing has helped many organizations while working for VMware Professional Services, EMC Virtualization Team (vSpecialists), and through creating professional blogging resources. His expertise is backed by more than 20 years industry experience managing IT infrastructures for large organizations. Andre’s blog http://myvirtualcloud.net is recognized as one of the industry leading technical VDI blogs with more than 1.5 million views every month. Based on his field experience, he developed a number of free tools to help beginners and advanced architects to appropriately size and architect VDI solutions. Those tools include the VMware View Online Calculator, the XenDesktop Online Calculator, and the Display Protocol Online Calculator. His passion for End User Computing led him to find the APAC Virtualization Podcast and speak at conferences such as the Brazil vForum 2011, Las Vegas VMworld 2011, and the Sydney vForum 2010. Due to his creativity and accomplishments, he received the VMware Virtual Desktop Ingenuity Award 2009 and was recognized as vExpert recipient award for two consecutive years. Degree qualified, Andre also holds VCP 5, VCAP4-DCA, VCAP4-DCD, VCP4-DT, ITIL V3, EMCCA, EMCDCA, and MCSE certifications. He is currently helping to shape the future of End User Computing by working at VMware as an architect in the Office of the CTO and enjoying his work.
