Free eBooK : Microsoft Windows Server 2008 The Complete Reference

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 The Complete Reference

Your Definitive Resource on Microsoft Windows Server 2008

"Build your network the right way with expert advice! This book provides real-world help in implementing Windows Server 2008 with attention to the use of virtualization solutions covering all you need to know in one well-written guide to success." --Bob Kelly, AppDeploy.com and Technical Reviewer

Plan, set up, and administer a powerful, scalable Microsoft Windows Server 2008 environment. Featuring detailed explanations, best practices, pragmatic checklists, and real-world implementation examples, this comprehensive resource shows you how to deploy, manage, and secure WS08 on enterprise networks of all sizes.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008: The Complete Reference explains how to develop migration plans and transition to WS08, configure AD and Internet services, handle print and Web servers, and work with resource pools and network delegation rights. You'll get full coverage of the latest virtualization techniques, OU strategies, remote administration features, and storage maintenance utilities. Find out how to tune performance, deploy bulletproof security, create reliable system backups, and design failsafe disaster recovery plans. You'll also learn to rely on resource pools and virtual service offerings to create the very best Windows infrastructure implementation.

• Migrate legacy networks to a Windows Server 2008-based infrastructure
• Configure ADDS, User Services, DNS, DHCP, and IIS7
• Set up the Network and Build Network Infrastructure Servers
• Use Server Core to run the Hyper-V role on host servers
• Design user and computer Group Policy strategies, network delegation rights, and OU strategies
• Manage file, print, application, terminal, Web, and collaboration servers as virtual service offerings
• Administer WS08 from the MMC, PowerShell, desktop, and command line
• Optimize redundancy using Windows Clustering Services and NLB on both host and virtual machines
• Secure WS08 using the Castle Defense System, BitLocker, Kerberos, EFS, PKI, smart cards, and biometrics
• Back up and restore data using WBAdmin.exe, the Volume Shadow Copy service, and the Recovery Wizard
• Rely on the most up-to-date task list to create a complete administration plan once the network is deployed

· 826 pages

· Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (February 28, 2008)

· Language: English

· ISBN-10: 0072263652

· ISBN-13: 978-0072263657

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Free eBooK : TCP/IP Sockets in Java: Practical Guide for Programmers

TCP/IP Sockets in Java: Practical Guide for Programmers

Most Internet applications use sockets to implement network communication protocols. TCP/IP Sockets in Java: Practical Guide for Programmers, with its focused, tutorial-based coverage, helps you master the tasks and techniques essential to virtually all client-server projects using sockets in Java. Later chapters teach you to implement more specialized functionality; incisive discussions of programming constructs and protocol implementations equip you with a deeper understanding that is invaluable for meeting future challenges. No other resource presents so concisely or so effectively the exact material you need to get up and running with Java sockets programming right away.

For those who program using the C language, be sure to check out this book's companion, TCP/IP Sockets in C: Practical Guide for Programmers.
For example code from the text, sample programming exercises, Powerpoint slides, and more, click on the grey "Companion Site" button to the right.
*Concise, no-nonsense explanations of issues often troublesome for students, including message construction and parsing, underlying mechanisms and Java I/O
*Comprehensive example-based coverage of the most important TCP/IP techniques-including iterative and threaded servers, timeouts and asynchronous message processing
*Includes a detailed, easy-to-use reference to the relevant JAVA class libraries
*A companion Web site provides online code for all the example programs given in the book
*Provides a guide to common errors and a reference offering detailed documentation of the sockets interface
*Perfect for a practitioner who may even want just to "look into" this technology.
*Provides tutorial-based instuction in key sockets programming techniques, focusing exclusively on Jva and complemented by example code.
*Covers challenging sockets programming issues: message construction and parsing, underlying TCP/IP protocol mechanisms, Java I/O, iterate and threaded servers, and timeouts.
*Includes references to the relevant Java class libraries that often go beyond the "official" Java documentation in clarity and explanation.
*Provides code for all example programs, along with additional exercises, via companion Web site.
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Free eBooK : Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions

Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions

Great Content from a Bestselling Author: The Linux Bible 2008 Edition is the best first Linux book for new or migrating users. By focusing on the building-block nature of Linux, and offering true up-to-date descriptions of Linux technology, the Bible helps the reader learn how to jump headlong into Linux, regardless of the Linux distribution they choose. Descriptions of different Linux distributions helps users choose the Linux distribution that's right for them. Detailed installation instructions, step-by-step descriptions of key desktop and server components, and the actual distributions on CD and DVD, let readers get started using Linux immediately. The Bible will serve a broad range of readers, from those starting with Linux to anyone looking to evaluate different Linux distributions. It also covers broad usage including Linux desktops, servers, and firewall/routers.

New features: Instead of just telling you about how the technology works, new "Bringing Linux In" sections describe how people have implemented Linux in the real world. New sections describe real-life examples, such as how:

• A Small office created an inexpensive Web, print, and file server
• A do-it-yourselfer combined Linux audio and video features to create a home multimedia center
• A school build a computer lab with free educational software
• A large corporation deployed thousands of Linux systems
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Free eBooK : Administering Windows Server 2008 Server Core

Administering Windows Server 2008 Server Core

Microsoft's new GUI-less Server Core is a command line version of Windows Server 2008 that offers better security, reduced size, and faster access. Inside this comprehensive guide, you'll find everything you need to quickly master this sleek new version. Packed with instructions and practical examples, this book teaches you how to operate in a windowless environment, including using all the commands, creating BAT files, working with scripts, using registry hacks, managing remote systems, and more. Includes best practices, 52 indispensable command line tricks, and an alphabetical list of all the commands.

If you're a systems administrator looking to reduce maintenance and increase efficiency, Microsoft's new GUI-less Server Core is for you. It's Windows without windows-a command line version of Windows Server 2008 that offers better security, reduced size, and faster access. Inside this comprehensive guide, you'll find everything you need to quickly master this sleek, innovative version of Windows Server 2008.

Packed with step-by-step instructions and page after page of practical examples, this book teaches you how to operate in a windowless environment, including using all the commands, creating BAT files, working with scripts, using registry hacks, managing remote systems, and more.

• Install and configure Server Core without a Control Panel or Start menu
• Access DLLs using RunDLL32 to perform tasks at the command line
• Understand important differences between internal and external commands
• Set up automatic updates, enable terminal services, and configure IP security
• Change logons, ports, and users with the Change Utility
• Install and manage software, hardware, servers, and applications
• Add, copy, modify, sort, compress, encrypt, and transfer data
• Manage files and directories, including such tasks as disk checks and changing access
• Monitor system events and remote systems, and communicate with TelNet
• Set up virus and intrusion protection, verify drivers, and check Event Trace logs
This valuable desktop reference also includes best practices, 52 indispensable command line tricks, and an alphabetical list of all the commands.
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Free eBooK : Microsoft Windows Server 2008: A Beginner's Guide

Microsoft Windows Server 2008: A Beginner's Guide

Get up and running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with ease

This hands-on guide covers all the essentials of deploying and administering the latest release of Microsoft's powerful, versatile network operating system. Using clear screenshots and step-by-step instructions, Microsoft Windows Server 2008: A Beginner's Guide shows you how to set up the server, migrate from earlier versions, and handle networking, administration, storage, and security. You'll also get details on the new Web tools and management utilities available in Windows Server 2008.

• Install, configure, and deploy Windows Server 2008
• Set up and manage a network
• Work with Active Directory and Domains
• Set up communications features and an Internet connection
• Install, customize, and maintain Internet Information Services (IIS) 7
• Configure a VPN server and client
• Set up Terminal Services and Remote Desktop
• Manage storage and file systems
• Secure your Windows Server environment
• Set up and manage printing and faxing
• Use the built-in management tools, including Server Manager and group policies

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Free eBooK : MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-623): Supporting and Troubleshooting Applications on a Windows Vista® Client for Consume

MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-623): Supporting and Troubleshooting Applications on a Windows Vista® Client for Consume

Focusing on the job role of supporting consumer client-computers running Windows Vista, this official study guide covers topics such as installing and configuring Windows Vista; managing parental controls and browser security; removing malware; configuring file sharing, printers, and media devices; and, troubleshooting and repairing Windows Vista. Then assess yourself by using 375+ practice and review questions on the CD. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answersincluding pointers back to the book for further study. You also get an evaluation version of Windows Vista software and an exam discount vouchermaking this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.
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Free eBooK : Professional LINQ (Programmer to Programmer)

Professional LINQ (Programmer to Programmer)

Professional LINQ introduces experienced programmers and database developers to LINQ database queries in their native VB and C# languages. Some of the topics covered include:

• LINQ Queries
• LINQ and the Standard Query Operators
• Programming with XLinq
• Querying XML with XLinq
• Mixing XML and other data models
• DLinq and Queries
• LINQ over datasets
• Interoperating with ADO.NET
• LINQ and ASP.NET

Are you ready to revolutionize the way you can work with data? This book shows you how to effectively utilize LINQ so that you can query XML, SQLdatabases, ADO.NET DataSets, and other data sources, and it also delvesdeeper into the technology to demonstrate how LINQ can dramatically improve your applications.

Database pro Scott Klein first examines LINQ and Visual Studio® 2008, the language-specific features that support LINQ, as well as LINQ queries and the LINQ standard query operators. He then shows you how to program with LINQ to XML with both C# and Visual Basic® and how to use LINQ to XML with other data models. Plus, he walks you through LINQ to SQL queries, advanced query concepts, LINQ to Entities, and LINQ to DataSets. All of this valuable insight will provide you with powerful new tools so that you can easily extend and access information in your databases.

What you will learn from this book

• Features of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework that will help you better understand LINQ

• The syntax to use when writing LINQ queries

• The concepts, techniques, and programming fundamentals necessary to program with LINQ to XML

• How to use LINQ to XML with Visual Basic .NET

• All about LINQ to SQL queries and concepts

• Ways to work with the DataContext class and entity objects

• How to build applications using LINQ and associated LINQ providers

Who this book is for
This book is for developers who want to learn about LINQ and how it can benefit and enhance their applications.

Wrox Professional Guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
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Free eBooK : Network Security Assessment: Know Your Network

Network Security Assessment: Know Your Network

How secure is your network? The best way to find out is to attack it. Network Security Assessment provides you with the tricks and tools professional security consultants use to identify and assess risks in Internet-based networks-the same penetration testing model they use to secure government, military, and commercial networks. With this book, you can adopt, refine, and reuse this testing model to design and deploy networks that are hardened and immune from attack.

Network Security Assessment demonstrates how a determined attacker scours Internet-based networks in search of vulnerable components, from the network to the application level. This new edition is up-to-date on the latest hacking techniques, but rather than focus on individual issues, it looks at the bigger picture by grouping and analyzing threats at a high-level. By grouping threats in this way, you learn to create defensive strategies against entire attack categories, providing protection now and into the future.
Network Security Assessment helps you assess:
Web services, including Microsoft IIS, Apache, Tomcat, and subsystems such as OpenSSL, Microsoft FrontPage, and Outlook Web Access (OWA)
Web application technologies, including ASP, JSP, PHP, middleware, and backend databases such as MySQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Windows networking components, including RPC, NetBIOS, and CIFS services
SMTP, POP3, and IMAP email services
IP services that provide secure inbound network access, including IPsec, Microsoft PPTP, and SSL VPNs
Unix RPC services on Linux, Solaris, IRIX, and other platforms
Various types of application-level vulnerabilities that hacker tools and scripts exploit
Assessment is the first step any organization should take to start managing information risks correctly. With techniques to identify and assess risks in line with CESG CHECK and NSA IAM government standards, Network Security Assessment gives you a precise method to do just that.
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Free eBooK : Microsoft WindowsVista Manegement and Administration

Microsoft WindowsVista Manegement and Administration

This book will show administrators how to manage and administer the advanced functions and security features in Windows Vista. The recommendations, tips, tricks, and best practices are based on years of early-adopter implementations of Windows Vista in large corporate and private environments. The authors highlight the functions of Windows Vista that both large and small environments have found to be the most useful, including all-new features such as Complete PC Backup, BitLocker, and the powerful Group Policy options that are only available in Windows Vista.
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Free eBooK : Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant

Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant

Here s the eminently practical, pocket-sized reference for IT and Web professionals working with IIS 7.0. Designed for quick referencing and compulsively readable, this portable guide covers all the basics needed for Web administration fundamentals, Web server administration, essential services administration, and performance, optimization, and maintenance. It s the fast-answers guide that helps users consistently save time and energy as they administer IIS 7.0. Written by an award-winning author of more than two dozen computer books, this guide puts expert administration and troubleshooting advice right at your fingertips. Featuring quick-reference tables, concise lists, and step-by-step instructions, this handy, one-stop guide provides fast, accurate answers on the spot whether you re at your desk or in the field.

Delivers must-know details and procedures for administering, supporting and troubleshooting IIS 7.0, including information for performance optimization

Features concise tables, easy-to-scan lists, and step-by-step instructions for the answers you need, wherever you need them
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Free eBooK : CNET Do-It-Yourself Home Networking Projects

CNET Do-It-Yourself Home Networking Projects

Network the computers and peripheral devices in your home or small office with the fun and practical projects packed inside this hands-on guide. Produced in conjunction with CNET.com, the place you go for the latest in tech and consumer electronics, this book shows you how to create a wired or wireless network so you can share files, printers, and other resources. You'll also learn to set up a server and secure and expand your network.

Inside, you'll find 24 self-contained projects, step-by-step instructions, a list of tools needed at the beginning of each project, and hundreds of clear photos and screenshots. CNET Do-It-Yourself Home Networking Projects takes you from beginning through advanced tasks with ease!

• Control other PCs remotely
• Share network storage without a server
• Set up a webcam server
• Enable and share a cellular data connection
• Watch live TV from anywhere via a Sling Media bridge
• Integrate IM and VoIP applications into your network
• Run your own PC weather station
• Connect TiVo to your home network

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Free eBooK : Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization Fundamentals

Application Acceleration and
WAN Optimization Fundamentals

IT organizations face pressure to increase productivity, improve application performance, support global collaboration, improve data protection, and minimize costs. In today’s WAN-centered environments, traditional LAN-oriented infrastructure approaches are insufficient to meet these goals. Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization Fundamentals introduces a better solution: integrating today’s new generation of accelerator solutions to efficiently and effectively scale networks beyond traditional capabilities while improving performance and minimizing costs through consolidation.

Ted Grevers and Joel Christner begin by reviewing the challenges network professionals face in delivering applications to globally distributed workforces. You learn how accelerators are transforming application business models, enabling IT departments to centralize and consolidate resources while also delivering consistently superior performance.

Grevers and Christner show how to identify network consumers, prioritize traffic, and guarantee appropriate throughput and response times to business-critical applications. You learn how to use quality of service techniques such as packet classification and marking and traffic policing, queuing, scheduling, and shaping.

Next, you compare options for integrating accelerators and optimization services into your network and for optimizing content delivery. The authors show how to address application protocol-related performance problems that cannot be resolved through compression or flow optimization alone. In the final chapter, the authors walk you through several real-world scenarios for utilizing accelerator technology.

Ted Grevers, Jr., is the solution manager for the Cisco® Video IPTV Systems Test and Architecture (C-VISTA) team. He has extensive experience in the content delivery network (CDN) market, focusing on enterprise and service provider content delivery and application optimization needs.

Joel Christner, CCIE® No. 15311, is the manager of technical marketing for the Cisco Application Delivery Business Unit (ADBU). He has extensive experience with application protocols, acceleration technologies, LAN/WAN infrastructure, and storage networking. Grevers and Christner are key contributors to the design and architecture of Cisco application delivery and application acceleration solutions.

• Provide high-performance access to remote data, content, video, rich media, and applications
• Understand how accelerators can improve network performance and minimize bandwidth consumption
• Use NetFlow to baseline application requirements and network utilization
• Ensure network resources are allocated based on business priorities
• Identify performance barriers arising from networks, protocols, operating systems, hardware, file systems, and applications
• Employ application-specific acceleration components to mitigate the negative impact of latency and bandwidth consumption
• Integrate content delivery networks (CDN) to centrally manage the acquisition, security, and distribution of content to remote locations

• Leverage WAN optimization technologies to improve application throughput, mitigate the impact of latency and loss, and minimize bandwidth consumption
• Optimize the performance of WANs and business-critical WAN applications

This book is part of the Cisco Press® Fundamentals Series. Books in this series introduce networking professionals to new networking technologies, covering network topologies, sample deployment concepts, protocols, and management techniques.

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Free eBooK : Cisco Certified Network Associate: Fast Pass

Cisco Certified Network Associate: Fast Pass

Organized by exam objectives, this is a focused, concise review guide that works hand-in-hand with any learning tool, including the Sybex CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide, 6th and Deluxe editions.

The book will consist of four high-level chapters, each mapping to the four main Domains of the exam skill-set. The book will drill down into the specifics of the exam, covering the following:

* Designing Cisco internetworks
* Developing an access list
* Evaluating TCP/IP communication
* Configuring routers and switches
* Configuring IP addresses, subnet masks, and gateway addresses
* Performing LAN, VLAN, and WAN troubleshooting
* Understanding rules for packet control
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Free eBooK : CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide

CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide

Approach the CCNA exam (640-802) with confidence through the detailed preparation you'll receive in this bestselling study guide from leading Cisco networking authority Todd Lammle. This new edition—updated to reflect the very latest changes in the CCNA exam—features expanded coverage of key topic areas plus new material on the latest switching techniques, network address translation, IPv6, and advanced OSPF. Reinforce your study with the author's supplemental video and audio instruction on CD. Inside, find the complete instruction you need, including:

• Full coverage of all exam objectives in a systematic approach, so you can be confident you're getting the instruction you need for the exam
• Practical hands-on exercises and labs to reinforce critical skills
• Real-world scenarios that put what you've learned in the context of actual job roles
• Challenging review questions in each chapter to prepare you for
• exam day
• Exam Essentials, a key feature in each chapter that identifies critical areas you must become proficient in before taking the exam
• A handy tear card that maps every official exam objective to the corresponding chapter in the book, so you can track your exam prep objective by objective

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Free eBooK : Wi-Fi Toys: 15 Cool Wireless Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment

Wi-Fi Toys: 15 Cool Wireless Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment

• This ultra-cool volume invites readers to tap into your inner geek and build seventeen ultra-cool wireless devices including a solar powered access point, a wireless picture frame that dynamically changes its own photos, and even a wireless car-to-car audio and video system
• With a few simple tools, some off-the-shelf parts, and this book, readers will be creating wireless devices they never thought were possible-toys that certainly can't be found at the local computer store
• Written by the cofounder and members of the Southern California Wireless Users Group, this book provides readers with hands-on instruction and insider tips and tricks from those who are on the bleeding edge of wireless technology
• New addition to the ExtremeTech line of books-books for serious technophiles

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Free eBooK : Wireless Technicians Handbook

Wireless Technician's Handbook

Applies up-to-date knowledge of wireless communications formats to the real-world situations you encounter everyday. Featuring brand new material on such critical technologies as GPRS, EDGE, CDMA-2000, and WCDMA.

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Free eBooK : The Best Damn Firewall Book Period, Second Edition

The Best Damn Firewall Book Period, Second Edition

The Second Edition of the Best Damn Firewall Book Period is completely revised and updated to include all of the most recent releases from Microsoft, Cisco, Juniper Network, SonicWALL, and Check Point.

Compiled from the best of the Syngress firewall library and authored by product experts such as Dr. Tom Shinder on ISA Server, this volume is an indispensable addition to a serious networking professionals toolkit.

Coverage includes migrating to ISA Server 2006, integrating Windows Firewall and Vista security into your enterprise, successfully integrating Voice over IP applications around firewalls, and analyzing security log files.

Sections are organized by major vendor, and include hardware, software and VPN configurations for each product line.

New to this Edition:

* Microsoft firewall protection, from Windows Firewall to ISA Server 2006
* Cisco PIX Version 7, including VPN configuration and IDS
* Analyzing Firewall Logs and Reports
* VoIP and Firewall Bypassing

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Free eBooK : Linux Thin Client Networks Design and Deployment

Linux Thin Client Networks Design and Deployment

Written by an experienced Linux thin client network designer and implementer, this book for System Administrators covers the concepts of thin client networks and design issues for implementations of various sizes, followed by step-by-step HOW-TOs for all elements of implementing a thin client network based on open-source software. A thin, or lean client network is a client-server architecture where client computers depend primarily on a central server for processing activities. The thin clients focus on passing input to remote services and receiving and displaying the output; thin clients aren't as much about the hardware or software as about the design. With all the information you need to understand how the technology works, this book will help you evaluate how a Linux thin client network fits into your organization and make informed choices on the hardware and software needed to design and implement a stable work environment that meets the needs of your organization, large or small.
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Free eBooK : Information Assurance: Dependability and Security in Networked Systems (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

Information Assurance: Dependability and Security in Networked Systems (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

In todays fast paced, infocentric environment, professionals increasingly rely on networked information technology to do business. Unfortunately, with the advent of such technology came new and complex problems that continue to threaten the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of our electronic information. It is therefore absolutely imperative to take measures to protect and defend information systems by ensuring their security and non-repudiation. Information Assurance skillfully addresses this issue by detailing the sufficient capacity networked systems need to operate while under attack, and itemizing failsafe design features such as alarms, restoration protocols, and management configurations to detect problems and automatically diagnose and respond. Moreover, this volume is unique in providing comprehensive coverage of both state-of-the-art survivability and security techniques, and the manner in which these two components interact to build robust Information Assurance (IA).

KEY FEATURES
* The first and (so far) only book to combine coverage of both security AND survivability in a networked information technology setting
* Leading industry and academic researchers provide state-of-the-art survivability and security techniques and explain how these components interact in providing information assurance
* Additional focus on security and survivability issues in wireless networks
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Free eBooK : Microsoft® Office Project Server 2007: The Complete Reference

Microsoft® Office Project Server 2007: The Complete Reference

This comprehensive guide takes you through the planning and implementation lifecycle of a Project Server installation. You will learn how to utilize this powerful software to set up and manage projects, allocate human as well as financial resources, track progress, and adjust activities quickly to accommodate project changes and updates.
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