Windows Vista Resource Kit 2e - Softcover

Honeycutt, Jerry; Tulloch, Mitch; Northrup, Tony

9780735625969: Windows Vista Resource Kit 2e

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735625964 ISBN 13: 9780735625969

Publisher: Microsoft Press US, 2008

In-depth, comprehensive, and fully updated for Service Pack 1, this RESOURCE KIT delivers the information you need to administer Windows Vista. You get authoritative technical guidance from those who know the technology best—Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals and the Windows Vista team—along with essential scripts and resources on the CD.

Get expert guidance on how to:

Use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit best practices and tools
Plan user-state migration and test application compatibility
Exploit new Group Policy features, settings, and ADMX templates
Configure software updates and client-security technologies
Administer disks, file systems, file sharing, search, and Internet Explorer
Install and troubleshoot printers, devices, and services
Manage IPsec, IPv6, wireless, and remote connectivity
Use performance monitoring and diagnostic tools to manage desktop health
Resolve common startup, hardware, and networking issues

CD features:

120+ sample VBScript scripts
25 sample Windows PowerShell scripts
Troubleshooting tools
Links to toolkits, documentation, and white papers
Complete eBook of INTRODUCING WINDOW SERVER 2008
Sample chapters from related Microsoft Press books
Fully searchable eBook of this guide

Plus: * See “Direct from the Source” sidebars for deep insights and troubleshooting tips from the Windows Vista team

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About the Author:

Jerry Honeycutt, MVP for Windows, is a popular author with more than 25 books to his credit, including Microsoft Windows Desktop Deployment Resource Kit. In addition, he is a columnist for Windows XP Expert Zone and Microsoft TechNet.

Mitch Tulloch is a trainer, consultant, and author living in Winnipeg, Canada. In addition to his Nutshell books for O'Reilly listed below, Mitch is also the author of the Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking and Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security, both from Microsoft Press, and a string of best-selling books on IIS from Osborne/McGraw-Hill. If you're interested you can find out more about Mitch on his website www.mtit.com. In addition to his O'Reilly weblog, Mitch also maintains a "techblog" at mitchtulloch.blogspot.com containing random thoughts, ideas, suggestions, tips, and resources for network and system administrators.

Tony Northrup, MCTS, MCSE, CISP, MVP, is a networking consultant and coauthor of Windows Server 2008 Networking and Network Access Protection (NAP).

Synopsis:

Get the definitive reference for deploying, configuring, and supporting Windows Vista with expert insights from Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and the Windows Vista Team at Microsoft. With additions and updates for SP1, this official Microsoft RESOURCE KIT provides more than 1,700 pages of in-depth technical guidance on automating deployment; implementing security enhancements, including Windows(r) Firewall and Windows Defender; administering Group Policy, files, folders, programs, and devices; using Windows Internet Explorer(r) 7; configuring network connections; and troubleshooting. You also get more than 170 timesaving scripts to help automate administrative tasks, additional job aids, and an eBook of the entire RESOURCE KIT with bonus chapters on a companion DVD.

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