Kurt Shintaku's Blog: Books

BOOKS: "Windows Vista Product Guide"... now in Word .DOC format & downloadable from Microsoft.com

Thu, 25 May 2006 02:24:56 GMT

The "Windows Vista Product Guide", aka "The Book of Windows Vista" has been rereleased in Word .DOC format. It's 60MB in size but it doesn't requires you to install WinFX to read it, like it did before when it was posted in .XPS format.

It goes through every feature of Windows Vista and covers both the consumer and the Enterprise side of the house.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/9/8/C988DCE4-1971-4AD4-A1EF-DF99E596A4CC/(60MB)--Windows%20Vista%20Product%20Guide.doc

RELEASE: Two New Books for MOM 2005

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:41:10 GMT

Chris Fox has written another outstanding book for the tools administrators. The Essential Microsoft Operations Manager (O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/microsoftopmgr/) February 2006 is a comprehensive tutorial gives system administrators a solid foundation for planning, implementing, and administering Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. Learn how to program MOM so it automates burdensome and lengthy diagnostic tasks, making your life as a troubleshooter easier than ever. Features practical, real-world advice from MOM expert Chris Fox. It is currently available on Amazon but will not be shipped until February.

Another book about MOM 2005, SMS 2003 and Microsoft Update written by Tim Kelly, Randy Holloway, and Telmo Sampaio (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=Iv0GFcXBgJ&isbn=0764589636&itm=1) will also be available in February 2006. This book teaches expert and best practice based security and patch management of Microsoft environments, using any of the three covered Microsoft offerings (Microsoft Operations Manager, Systems Management Server, and Windows Update Service). After detailing installation and configuration of each of the products, it goes beyond these basics to show the methods administrators should implement to keep their systems patched, secure, and up-to-date.

FREE: Windows Server System Magazine subscriptions

Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:07:30 GMT

FREE: Windows Server System Magazine subscriptions. This is a particularly neat magazine because it focuses exclusively on Windows Server stuff.

http://www.ftponline.com/winservermag/free

FREE: Redmond Magazine (formerly MCP Magazine)

Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:59:49 GMT

Free subscription to Redmond Magazine. This magazine is actually quite good... it used to be MCP Magazine but they decided to refocus the articles on "all things Redmond" i.e. Microsoft.

http://subscribe.101com.com/red/magazine/NewFreeUS/default.asp

Quote

New Subscription