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The following set of tips will help keep your personal computer healthy and running smoothly, as well as reduce your exposure to viruses or other security breaches. For Windows PCs (Windows XP, all versions) 1. Run Windows Update frequently to make sure your computer is up-to-date • To run Windows Update, go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ • Follow the instructions to scan your computer for updates and download the latest updates. • To configure Windows update to run automatically, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/updates.aspx 2. Install antivirus software on your computer • Symantec Norton Antivirus is recommended • Buy online through the CSUCI Bookstore at http://www.csuci.bkstr.com/ 3. Configure your Firewall software • Built in to Windows XP, but you must enable “Internet Connection Firewall” • Instructions at: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/icf.mspx 4. Don’t open email messages from people you don’t know or trust • This is most often how viruses spread and how people gain access to your computer. • Also, do not open any files attached to an email unless you know what it is, even if it appears to come from a dear friend or someone you know. Many viruses can replicate themselves and spread through email.

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Download free PC Help Desk Troubleshooting Windows XP and Windows Applications.pdf book Microsoft Windows XP is an operating system—but until you have a problem with Windows, the full meaning of that statement might not be clear to you. If Windows stops working, your computer stops working. If your computer stops working, you stop working (or playing). If you feel like a cyborg sometimes (we know we do) when you can’t seem to get Windows to work right, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s clean your Windows! If Windows doesn’t start properly, you can’t get anything done with your computer, because the Windows operating system manages your screen, your peripherals, your drives, your pointing devices—your entire computer life once the computer is turned on and completes its Power-On Self-Test (POST) routine. Windows might not start properly for a lot of reasons, but the most common ones include the following: • Corrupted or missing boot files on your startup drive • Incorrect hard disk configuration settings in the system BIOS • Loading programs that can’t run at the same time because of software conflicts • Damaged or missing Windows or application files that Windows requires access to at startup • Hardware resource conflicts

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Download free Windows 7 Review Guide.pdf Microsoft operating systems have been a “variable quantity” ever since I started working with them back in the Cretaceous Era. DOS 3 was good; DOS 4 was a clunker. The same variability held true with Windows: Windows 98 was good, Windows ME was a clunker. Then Microsoft put together back-to-back winners with Windows 2000 and XP, and some industry observers thought that the operating system rollercoaster ride might have smoothed out at last.

But it was not to be. I can’t quite bring myself to call Windows Vista a dud, because many aspects of its design (such as the revised administrative tools) show a welcome maturity and thoughtfulness; but the product did not receive much love in the marketplace. If you are Microsoft, you know that you’ve got a problem when even Intel does not adopt your flagship OS for internal use. Microsoft’s attempts to shine up Vista’s image through the “Mojave Experiment” TV commercials may have changed a few consumer minds, but corporate IT planners in droves decided to stick with good old Windows XP, notwithstanding the fact that Microsoft ended mainstream support for that OS on April 14, 2009. (This means that all XP support now costs money, except for security updates, which will continue through 2014.)

Based on my experience with the beta code, Windows 7 just might change their minds. It incorporates many of the best features of Vista while fixing many of its worst features. It’s a bit of a stretch for Microsoft to give it a new name: it’s really closer to “Vista R2” than anything else, in that it’s more than a service pack but less than a new product. (Microsoft execs say that it uses the “same core architecture;” Gartner Group calls Windows 7 a “polishing” release.) But we won’t quibble about the name too much. This product looks and feels better than anything Microsoft has released in years.

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Download free Configuring Windows 7 for Publicly Accessible Network Ports.pdf The 802.1x protocol is the protocol that is used for wired access to the University’s network (PittNet) through publically accessible network ports. These connections may be located in classrooms, conference rooms, and other public areas. Since authentication with University Computing Account credentials is required, only members of the University Community have access to PittNet through these network ports.

This document provides 802.1x network connection instructions for Windows 7 computers using a wired University connection. These instructions are divided into two sections. The first section explains how to enable the Wired AutoConfig Service. The second section describes how to set up the native 802.1x client in Windows 7.

Before you begin the steps below, make sure you have installed the updated VeriSign intermediate certificate on your computer. This update is necessary to ensure that your computer can verify the authenticity of a VeriSign certificate. Refer to the help sheet titled Installing the Updated VeriSign Intermediate Certificate for step-by-step instructions on installing this certificate.

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Download free Tuning Windows 7 Performance guide.pdf We often wonder why our workaday computer chores seem to take just as long as they ever did, despite the fact that hardware is generally more reliable and more powerful than ever. The answer to this apparent riddle comes in the form of McFedries’ law of computing codependence: The increase in software system requirements is directly proportional to the increase in hardware system capabilities. For example, imagine that a slick new chip is released that promises a 10% speed boost; software designers, seeing the new chip gain wide acceptance, add 10% more features to their already bloated code to take advantage of the higher performance level. Then another new chip is released, followed by another software upgrade—and the cycle continues ad nauseum as these twin engines of computer progress lurch codependently into the future.

So, how do you break out of the performance deadlock created by the immovable object of software code bloat meeting the irresistible force of hardware advancement? By optimizing your system to minimize the effects of overgrown applications and to maximize the native capabilities of your hardware. Of course, it helps if your operating system gives you a good set of tools to improve and monitor performance, diagnose problems, and keep your data safe. Windows XP came with a decent set of client tools, Vista improved on them (although not with anything radically new or earth shattering), and Windows 7 stays the course.

Performance optimization is a bit of a black art in that every user has different needs, every configuration has different operating parameters, and every system can react in a unique and unpredictable way to performance tweaks. That means if you want to optimize your system, you have to get to know how it works, what it needs, and how it reacts to changes. You can do this by just using the system and paying attention to how things look and feel, but a more rigorous approach is often called for. To that end, the next few sections take you on a brief tour of Windows 7’s performance monitoring capabilities.

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Download free Upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7.pdf Depending on your hardware and your current edition of Windows Vista, you can use the Upgrade option during Windows 7 installation to upgrade from Windows Vista to a corresponding or higher edition of Windows 7.

Upgrading is the most convenient way to get Windows 7 on your computer, because it keeps your files, settings, and programs from Windows Vista in place. If you want to install Windows 7 on a netbook, purchasing Windows 7 online from the Microsoft Store (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=160999) is the easiest method. For more information, see Installing Windows 7 on a netbook (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/installing-windows-7-on-a-netbook).

If your current edition of Windows Vista can't be upgraded to the edition of Windows 7 that you want to use, you can still install Windows 7 by using the Custom installation option instead. However, the Custom option doesn't preserve your files, programs, or settings. For a step-by-step tutorial on how to perform a custom installation, see Upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 (custom installation) (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/help/upgrading-from-windows-vista-to-windows-7-custom).

Since your computer is running Windows Vista, it meets the system requirements for Windows 7. We still recommend that you download and run the free Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor from the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=160680) webpage on the Microsoft website. It helps find potential issues with your computer’s hardware, devices, or programs that might affect installing Windows 7, and gives recommendations on what to do.

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Download free Windows 7 Power Management.pdf Microsoft designed Windows 7 with a strong focus on reducing the overall power consumption by investing in key areas of the platform including performance optimizations, idle resource utilization, device power management, and key end-user scenarios.

Energy efficiency requires investments across the entire platform, not only in the core hardware or in the operating system. While Windows 7 can have a significant impact on platform energy efficiency, attached devices, and non-Microsoft and end-user applications, other platform extensions often have a larger total impact. The complexity and quantity of platform extensions require a broad approach to energy efficiency beyond focusing on a single component in the platform.

In addition to core investments in Windows 7, Microsoft has emphasized ecosystem engagements for energy efficiency. Ecosystem partners, including IT pros, may leverage Windows 7 technical documentation, built-in diagnostic tools, and rich performance analysis tools to help identify issues across the enterprise.

Idle efficiency is critical for the overall battery life of a PC because idle time dominates most scenarios. Reducing idle power consumption reduces the base power consumption. For example, if a portable computer uses 12 watts when the system is idle, all other scenarios increase power by some amount over the base 12 watts. Reducing idle power consumption benefits all other end-user workloads and scenarios, from DVD playback to office productivity

Reducing idle power consumption can be achieved by reducing the resource utilization of the system when it is idle. It can also be achieved by enabling the hardware to go into lower power states during long periods of inactivity.

Resource utilization includes the processor, disk, memory, and network activity on the system. Windows 7 helps improve efficiency by reducing resource utilization when the system is idle. Reducing processor activity is particularly critical because of the large dynamic range of power consumption in modern processors. The typical portable computer processor consumes nearly 0 watts when idle, but it can consume up to 35 watts when fully utilized.

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Download free The Proactive Migration to Windows 7.pdf With each new exciting release of an operating system from Microsoft, there comes the sudden realization by every IT pro that you are going to need to perform the migration to this new platform. This is usually followed by several other realizations about how “this program” probably won’t be compatible and “that user” is going to need their specific settings to migrate, etc. So while the end result (a new secure and more productive OS) looks fantastic, getting there is obviously going to be a challenge. Since you are reading this whitepaper, I can only assume you a) are planning a pending migration to Windows 7 and b) you’ve come to the previously mentioned realizations.

In this whitepaper, I’d like to discuss a very different migration strategy to moving your users and their desktops (a term I’m using generically throughout this paper to mean any PC regardless of its physical configuration – laptop or otherwise) to Windows 7; one that takes a very proactive approach that will result in a faster migration, a more standardized environment, and more productive users. Before I jump into the migration, you first need to buy into three basic statements about your desktops:

1. Having one‐off desktop configurations is unacceptable. This amounts to exceedingly highersupport costs (that equates to your time) over the life of the desktop.
2. Your desktop configurations should be both standardized and centralized. This includes
   the OS, apps, user configurations, profile settings, drive mappings and anything else that makes up your user’s environment. Standardized does not mean that every desktop is the same; every user has their own set of needs. Standardized does mean that every desktop configuration (and there will usually be more than one) is intentionally put into production by IT; IT is aware of the configuration and has put a technology in place to implement the configuration. Centralized means that the configuration of each and every desktop is created, stored and able to be modified to update the organization’s definition of a consistent, secure and functional working environment.
3. Cramming a standard configuration into an OS image is not desktop management. This amounts to maintaining a standard for about one week (until changes by users or IT alter the configuration) out of 3 years of a desktop’s lifetime.

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Download free Tweaking the Windows 7 Registry.pdf When you change the desktop background using Control Panel’s Personalization window, the next time you start your computer, how does Windows 7 know which image or color you selected? If you change your video display driver, how does Windows 7 know to use that driver at startup and not the original driver loaded during setup? In other words, how does Windows 7 remember the various settings and options either that you’ve selected yourself or that are appropriate for your system?

The secret to Windows 7’s prodigious memory is the Registry. The Registry is a central repository Windows 7 uses to store anything and everything that applies to the configuration of your system. This includes all the following:

• Information about all the hardware installed on your computer
• The resources those devices use
• A list of the device drivers that Windows 7 loads at startup
• Settings that Windows 7 uses internally
• File type data that associates a particular type of file with a specific application
• Backgrounds, color schemes, and other interface customization settings
• Other customization settings for things such as the Start menu and the taskbar
• Internet and network connections and passwords
• Settings for Windows 7 applications such as Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer
• Settings and customization options for many third-party applications

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Download free Mastering Active Directory for Windows Server 2003.pdf Just as NT was originally designed to overcome the weaknesses of server-based network operating systems, Windows 2000/Windows Server 2003 with AD was designed to overcome the weaknesses of an NT domain-based environment. While Microsoft is loath to admit it, NT domains created as many problems as they fixed, especially in larger networks. Most of NT’s weaknesses revolved around scalability. To put this another way, the NT domain structure was designed to overcome the limitations of server-based operating systems, which it did in an admirable fashion. The problem was that this domain model was designed with a “workgroup” philosophy. NT’s domains were designed to represent the resources of small groups within a company, not the overall network resources. This is where Windows 2000/Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory enter the picture.

Active Directory was designed, from the ground up, to support what Microsoft has labeled “enterprise environments.”These enterprise environments can span huge physical areas, support thousands (if not millions) of users, and can provide services that are critical to the overall success of the company. For us, as network administrators, this scalability does come with a cost; we must master a new technology. The benefits, though, are astounding! While Active Directory was built for huge environments, most, if not all, of its features are also applicable to small and medium networks. In fact, many of the new features built into Windows 2000/Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory can ease the management of those smaller environments that perhaps do not have a large IT staff or a staff with extensive networking expertise! The bottom line here is that Active Directory is a great addition to any network—large or small. IT professionals working on any size network will benefit from the new utilities, technologies, and features available once their network has become AD-based.

Very few networks are installed all at once, especially in medium to small companies. Most networks grow over time—almost like a fungus! First the accounting department installs a server. They get it configured properly (this can take some time) and start bragging it up around the company. The folks in the production department see what the accountants are doing and decide to install their own server, creating their own domain in the process. The sales department staff suddenly wants Internet mail, so they bring in a consultant and have their own server installed, creating yet another domain. Before you know it the company is NT-based, but there are no connections between the various departments.

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Download free Windows Server 2003 Security Guide.pdf Welcome to the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide. This guide is designed to provide you with the best information available to assess and counter security risks in your organization that are specific to Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1). The chapters in this guide provide detailed guidance about how to enhance security setting configurations and features in Windows Server 2003 with SP1 wherever possible to address threats that you have identified in your environment. This guide was created for systems engineers, consultants and network administrators who work in a Windows Server 2003 with SP1 environment. This guide was reviewed and approved by Microsoft engineering teams, consultants, support engineers, as well as customers and partners. Microsoft worked with consultants and systems engineers who have implemented Windows Server 2003, Windows® XP, and Windows 2000 in a variety of environments to help establish the latest best practices to secure these servers and clients. This best practice information is described in detail in this guide.

Whatever your environment, you are strongly advised to be serious about security issues. Many organizations underestimate the value of their information technology (IT) environment, often because they exclude substantial indirect costs. If an attack on the servers in your environment is severe enough, it could significantly damage the entire organization. For example, an attack in which your organization’s Web site is brought down could cause a major loss of revenue or customer confidence, which could affect your organization’s profitability. When you evaluate security costs, you should include the indirect costs that are associated with any attack in addition to the costs of lost IT functionality. Vulnerability, risk, and exposure analysis with regard to security informs you of the tradeoffs between security and usability that all computers are subject to in a networked environment. This guide documents the major security countermeasures that are available in Windows Server 2003 with SP1, the vulnerabilities that they address, and the potential negative consequences (if any) of each countermeasure's implementation. The guide then provides specific recommendations about how to harden computers that run Windows Server 2003 with SP1 in three distinct enterprise environments. The Legacy Client (LC) environment must support older operating systems such as Windows 98. The Enterprise Client (EC) environment is one in which Windows 2000 is the earliest version of the Windows operating system in use. The third environment is one in which concern about security is so great that significant loss of client functionality and manageability is considered an acceptable tradeoff to achieve the highest level of security. This third environment is known as the Specialized Security – Limited Functionality (SSLF) environment. Every effort has been made to make this information well organized and easily accessible so that you can quickly find and determine which settings are suitable for the computers in your organization. Although this guide is targeted at the enterprise customer, much of it is appropriate for organizations of any size.

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Download free Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 Datashee.pdf Microsoft® Windows® Storage Server 2003 R2 is a scalable, branch-ready platform for network attached storage that offers excellent price performance value, enhanced management and superior reliability to organizations of all sizes. Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 provides a fast, reliable, and scalable platform for Network Attached Storage (NAS).

The flexible design of Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 delivers excellent price performance value and intuitive management. Organizations of all sizes can create effective NAS solutions that can adapt to and solve the simplest or most complex storage need. Moreover, Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 comes in a variety of different configurations to meet different organizations’ needs. Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 is built on the proven Windows Server™ 2003 family code base with all of its superior security, stability and management advantages, and is Microsoft’s third generation NAS product. Windows Storage Server R2 adds new search capabilities, simplified setup and storage management, extensibility, and is specially tuned to provide optimal NAS performance.

Single Instance Storage (SIS) recovers disk space by reducing the amount of redundant data stored on a server, by identifying identical files, storing a single copy of the file in a central repository and replacing the files with pointers to the file in the SIS common store. The administrator can enable SIS to run automatically on a per volume basis, and for best results the administrator should use a backup application that supports SIS. Indexing Service extracts the information from a set of documents and organizes it in a way that makes it quick and easy to access that information through the Search function for computers running Windows 2000 or Windows XP. This information can include text from within a document (e.g. its contents), and the characteristics and parameters of the document (e.g. its properties), such as the author's name.

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Download free Windows Socket Tutorial pdf. The Windows Sockets specification defines a network programming interface for Microsoft Windows which is based on the "socket" paradigm popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) from the University of California at Berkeley. It encompasses both familiar Berkeley socket style routines and a set of Windows-specific extensions designed to allow the programmer to take advantage of the message-driven nature of Windows.

Table of contents Windows Socket Tutorial

• Introduction
  What is Windows Sockets? ~ Berkeley Sockets ~ Microsoft Windows and Windows-specific extensions ~ The Status of this Specification ~ Revision History
• Programming With Sockets
  Windows Sockets Stack Installation Checking ~ Sockets ~ Byte Ordering ~ Socket Options ~ Database Files ~ Deviation from Berkeley Sockets ~ Windows Sockets in Multithreaded Versions of Windows
  
• Socket Library Overview
  Socket Functions ~ Database Functions ~ Microsoft Windows-specific Extension Functions
  
• Socket Library Reference
  Socket Routines ~ Database Routines ~ Microsoft Windows-specific Extensions
  
• Appendix A. Error Codes and Header Files
  Error Codes ~ Header Files
• Appendix B. Notes for Windows Sockets Suppliers
  Introduction ~ Windows Sockets Components ~ Multithreadedness and blocking routines ~ Database Files ~ FD_ISSET ~ Error Codes ~ DLL Ordinal Numbers ~ Validation Suite
• Appendix C. For Further Reference
• Appendix D. Background Information
  Legal Status of Windows Sockets ~ The Story Behind the Windows Sockets Icon

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Download free Introducing Windows Communication Foundation pdf. The global embrace of Web services—standard protocols for application-to-application communication—has changed software development. The functions that Web services can now provide, including effective security, distributed transactions, and reliable communication, enable this single technology family to address what were once separate problems. And the new view of services as a distinct software abstraction provides a solid foundation for the service-oriented architecture (SOA) that many organizations are putting in place.

Software development environments must keep pace with these changes. The benefits Web services bring should be reflected in the tools and technologies that developers use. Going forward, a simpler approach to distributed computing, broad interoperability, and direct support for service-orientation will be fundamental for developers. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Microsoft’s forthcoming technology for serviceoriented applications, is designed to address these requirements. Originally code-named “Indigo”, WCF is implemented in managed code as an extension of the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. Once it’s available, this technology is intended to be the foundation for creating service-oriented applications on Windows.

Table of contents Introducing Windows Communication Foundation

• Describing Windows Communication Foundation
  Illustrating the problem ~ Addressing the problem
• Using Windows Communication Foundation
  Creating a WCF service ~ Creating WCF client ~ Other aspects of WCF
• Coexistence And Upgrade
• Conclusion

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The registry is the heart and soul of Microsoft Windows XP. In my other registry books, I said the same thing about the registry in every version of Windows since Microsoft Windows 95, and by the time you're finished reading this book, I hope you'll agree. The registry contains the configuration data that makes the operating system work. The registry enables developers to organize configuration data in ways that are impossible with other mechanisms, such as INI files. It's behind just about every feature in Windows XP that you think is cool. More importantly, it enables you to customize Windows XP in ways you can't through the user interface.

Windows XP and every application that runs on Microsoft's latest desktop operating system do absolutely nothing without consulting the registry first. When you double−click a file, Windows XP consults the registry to figure out what to do with it. When you install a device, Windows XP assigns resources to the device based on information in the registry and then stores the device's configuration in the registry. When you run an application such as Microsoft Word 2002, the application looks up your preferences in the registry. If you were to monitor the registry during a normal session, you'd see the registry serves up thousands of values within minutes.

In this book, you will learn how to customize the registry, but you must also learn how to take care of the registry. You must learn how to back up the registry so you can restore it if things go awry. You must also learn the best practices for editing the registry safely.

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A look inside Windows Vista on security for system administrators. Get an early start on the security of Windows Vista and technology changes you need to know, as a systems administrator. From the main Windows expert Mark Minasi comes this "just-in-time" book to get you there. This led, hands-on guide is a quick-fire to the increased security changes and how it affects business as usual for those who must integrate and provide technical support for Windows Vista. You'll find practical instructions, tips, solutions, and more.

• Working through a lot of surprises Vista, such as logging on as Administrator and how to re-enable Run
• Learn how virtualization and when not
• Find out why and you can not delete files in System32, even if you are an Administrator
• Get familiar with the new boot security features such as PatchGuard
• Protect portable computers with the most innovative feature BitLocker
• Meet the new mechanism of Integrity Windows
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The last thing you want busy as a systems administrator is to click endlessly through the GUI of Windows every time you need to perform a simple task. Want a better solution? Windows Management at the command line reacquaints with the often overlooked public services accessible via the command line in Windows 2003, XP and 2000.

Search files, check the status of the system, ensure and oversee the systems, and best of all, save time by using scripts to automate time-consuming tasks of management. This practical book reveals all the command line utilities and puts at your fingertips. The only resource on the market with the complete set of Windows command line utilities, is in the hands of reference offers solutions that produce superior results compared to GUI-based utilities, increasing their productivity in the countryside.

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I will show how to customize most aspects of Windows Vista. By the time you finish this book, your Windows Vista will look and feel as though Microsoft designed just for you.

The yield is an important component of their experience with Windows Vista. Windows Vista requires more of your hardware than ever before. After all, when you add many new features, different types of automation, and a slick user interface 3D, which are going to need something more powerful than a team that just runs Windows XP. But you also do not need go out and buy a whole new team. In this book shows you how to adjust the settings and features of Windows Vista to make it run faster than the hardware is not exactly the most cutting edge.

Hundreds of new security features to protect your computer from all types of threats. This book shows how to take advantage of new security features, as well as how to tame some of the most annoying features, such as User Account Control, while still benefiting from the function of protection.

This book is addressed to all users of Windows Vista that are interested in customizing the operating system, improve performance, and using the latest security features and tools to secure Windows Vista. Previous Windows experience is required for this book. Most of the subjects covered in this book are geared toward a more advanced Windows user, but each section is written in a way that even novice Windows users can understand.

Windows Vista Ultimate is necessary to carry out all the adjustments and hacks mentioned in this book. You can use other versions of Windows Vista, but some sections may not work because the particular feature of Windows Vista is not on its version.

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Get the official resources to implement, administer and troubleshoot Windows Server 2008 and networking Network Access Protection (NAP) technologies, straight from the experts who know better technologies. This definitely appeal of Microsoft ® award-winning networking author Joseph Davies and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) author Tony Northrup also offers ideas from experts directly from the network of Windows Server in the Microsoft team. You get detailed information on all major networks and network security services, including the new Network Access Protection (NAP), authentication infrastructure, IPv4 and IPv6, remote access, virtual private networks, IP Security, the quality of service and scalable networking, wireless infrastructure and security, DNS, DHCP, Windows Firewall ®, and more. You also get a companion DVD with a fully searchable eBook version of the book, plus samples of Understanding eBook IPv6 2nd Edition, Windows Server 2008 TCP / IP protocols and services, and TCP / IP fundamentals. This official Microsoft Windows Resource delivers what every manager needs to master Windows Server 2008 networking.

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If you're curious, but hesitant about finding your way around the new Microsoft 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 the creation and operation of a Windows Server 2008 network.

Server-based networking is really a great thing, and this 1000lain-English guide will help you make the most of it. You'll find information about Windows Server 2008 for important functions, capabilities and needs, develop a plan of implementation; take a step by step the installation process, and gain valuable tips on how to increase their bandwidth beyond belief ! Before you know it, you will be setting up the connections with the universe, working with Active Directory, and the treatment of the drivers Domains and like old friends.

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* Create and connect its network
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* Establish and manage directory services
* Manage Users and Groups
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* Proclaim and manage its own domain
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* To manage the shares, permissions, and more
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