- Planning a New Installation of Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS)
- Dec 30, 2005
- Regardless of the actual installation approach you may choose, many aspects of the customer's network environment must be considered when bringing SBS into the mix. This chapter focuses on gathering the information necessary to successfully bring the SBS product into any environment.
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- Why Hiring Quality Talent Is Important
- Dec 16, 2005
- Quality talent is always scarce. Even during the employers' market of the past 50 years, there has been—and always will be—a shortage of quality talent. Understanding this means that you can plan accordingly, and hold onto quality talent when you find it. This chapter provides some real life examples of organizations that have succeeded or failed in holding onto quality talent.
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- Why You Need to Conduct Risk Assessment
- Dec 16, 2005
- With industry compliancy and information security laws and mandates being introduced in the past four years, the need for conducting a vulnerability and risk assessment is now paramount. This chapter helps you understand the need for risk assessment, and why stopping security problems before they start is vital to your business.
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- A Network Administrator's View of Multiservice Networks
- Dec 9, 2005
- Multiservice networks provide more than one distinct communications service type over the same physical infrastructure. Multiservice implies not only the existence of multiple traffic types within the network, but also the ability of a single network to support all of these applications without compromising quality of service (QoS) for any of them. This chapter covers multiservice networks in detail from the network administrator's viewpoint.
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- Microsoft Security Assessment Tool: Can It Make Your Organization More Secure?
- Dec 9, 2005
- The Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) claims to analyze whether your existing network security architecture meets some of the common industry best practices. Zubair Alexander assesses the assessor, reporting on the strengths and weaknesses in this free utility.
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- Troubleshooting Storage Devices
- Dec 9, 2005
- Your "personal confuser’s" hard disk is one of the most important parts of your PC. If the hard disk built into your system stops working, you can’t load your operating system, you can’t surf the Web, you can’t play a game...well, you get the idea. This no nonsense chapter will help you to troubleshoot problems with your storage media, from hard drives to DVD-Rs.
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- An Overview of the syslog Protocol
- Dec 1, 2005
- This chapter presents an overview of the syslog protocol and shows you how to deploy an end-to-end syslog system. You'll learn about the syslog architecture as well as the issues in deploying syslog servers in Linux and Windows OSs with a focus on their relevance in a Cisco environment.
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- Corporate Governance, Business Continuity Planning, and Disaster Recovery
- Dec 1, 2005
- To protect business stakeholders, corporate governance focuses a sharp eye on all measures and systems within the organization to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and standards. Michelle Johnston Sollicito points out the many required aspects of a proper business continuity plan and shows you where to look for holes in your process.
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- Installing ZENworks Linux Management
- Dec 1, 2005
- This chapter provides a walk-through on getting all the components of ZENworks Linux Management working in your environment. You always need to install a ZENworks primary server first, and then you can install agent components and secondary servers in any order you desire.
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- The Truth About Getting Your Point Across: You and Your Recipient
- Dec 1, 2005
- From its earliest roots, communication has focused on sender and recipient having some common understanding of the information flowing between them. This chapter focuses on establishing the kind of common ground that allows effective communication.
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- BPEL: The Next Big Thing in Software?
- Nov 18, 2005
- Software is far more fluid now than even five years ago. Look at the way we accept new virus definitions and automatic updates to Windows XP! Stephen Morris suggests that this change reflects a gradual migration toward web-based services for upgrades, a small step away from using automatic web services for tasks such as share trading and resource planning. The future may be bleak for monolithic applications, and the main reason may be found in the area of business process modeling.
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- SOA Project Planning Aspects
- Nov 18, 2005
- This chapter takes the next step toward execution by focusing on how to plan an SOA project. The topics in this chapter constitute the best practices the authors have uncovered for forming a project office, how to define the phases of SOA adoption, the need for and mechanisms of SOA governance, and finally, the various project roles and how they interact with each other.
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- Understanding Organizational Uses of SharePoint Technologies
- Nov 18, 2005
- This chapter explores several different standard SharePoint 2003 configurations that organizations are implementing, and some common ways they are benefiting from the document management and collaboration features that SharePoint offers.
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- Updating Samba-3 with Minimal Pain and User Frustration
- Nov 18, 2005
- Upgrading your Samba installation can be a complicated business, but this chapter will make the process as easy as possible, clarifying some of the muddier aspects of Samba migration.
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- What's Wrong with Linux?
- Nov 18, 2005
- To A. Lizard, Linux is a lovable mutt: reliable, stable, and darned safe, but not nearly as easy to use as Windows or Mac. In this article, he analyzes what's wrong with Linux distributions as a breed.
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- IT Governance: Toward a Unified Framework Linked to and Driven by Corporate Governance
- Nov 11, 2005
- IT governance remains an evolving concept within an evolving concept: that of corporate governance. The old adage, "What you see depends on where you sit,"describes precisely where we are in the discourse around the nature of IT governance. This chapter attempts to make sense of the various viewpoints regarding this emerging issue in IT.
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- Understanding the Project Management Institute's Project Planning Process Group
- Nov 11, 2005
- The Project Management Institute defines a total of 44 project processes that describe activities throughout a project's life cycle. One of the most prominent of the process groups is project planning, evident in that nearly half of the processes occur in this group. This chapter details the ins and outs of project planning with an eye toward passing the Project Management Professional Exam.
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- 10 Things I Hate About (U)NIX
- Nov 4, 2005
- UNIX was a terrific workhorse for its time, but eventually the old nag needs to be put out to pasture. David Chisnall argues that it's time to retire UNIX in favor of modern systems with a lot more horsepower.
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- Account Information Databases in Samba-3
- Nov 4, 2005
- Samba-3 implements a new capability to work concurrently with multiple account backends. The possible new combinations of password backends allows Samba-3 a degree of flexibility and scalability that previously could be achieved only with MS Windows Active Directory (ADS). This chapter describes the new functionality and how to get the most out of it.
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- Filtering, Sorting, and Summarizing Data in Crystal Reports XI
- Nov 4, 2005
- The value of Crystal Reports is its inherent capacity to convert those rows of raw data into valuable information. Information will reveal something about the data that cannot be found by simply poring over pages and pages of records. In this chapter, you'll learn how to create reports that filter, sort, and summarize data.
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