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The Best of Windows Vista: The Official Magazine - A Real-Life Guide to Windows Vista and Your PC, by Windows Vista: The Official Magazine
Reviewed by Sandra Haynes, content development manager, Microsoft Press
Get started...explore…do more. In this full-color, creative, practical, and engaging guide, that’s exactly what you’ll do. Created by the editors, authors, and reviewers of Windows Vista: the Official Magazine, the only officially endorsed Windows Vista magazine, this guide takes a fun approach to helping you and your PC work together to manage your everyday life. Step 1. Get started. In this section, you’ll get a detailed tour of the new interface and all the integrated applications, such as the new Windows Sidebar, the Welcome Center, and Windows Media Center, just to name a few. Whether you just want to make sure you know how to get around and see what’s new, or you want the full tour—you can set your own pace. Begin with 12 reasons you’ll love the Windows Vista operating system and then learn what to do in the first hour. This section sets the foundation for you to move forward. Step 2. Explore. Here you’ll really get into more detail, along with advice and tips for using Windows Vista. In this section you go from the fun—playing games, organizing your photo collection, creating playlists of your favorite songs, making movies—to the practical: staying secure, using parental controls, taming your files and folders, optimizing search, networking, maintaining your system, and setting up your mail accounts. You’re now well on your way to taking a power step forward. Step 3. Do more. Now that you’re comfortable maneuvering around the new interface and working in Windows Vista, prepare to have even more fun with it all. You’ll find great advice and ideas on managing work and home. Use your PC to create your own cell phone ring tones or to control your TV. Take your home paperless. Childproof your home office. Create the resume that really tells your story. Keep track of homework assignments or other appointments. Create and share your own movie. Plan a great party, and more. This book will help you see different ways you can use Windows Vista to improve and integrate the different areas of your life, not just your digital one. Learn more about The Best of Windows Vista: the Official Magazine - A Real-Life Guide to Windows Vista and Your PC, by Windows Vista: The Official Magazine.
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Editor's Picks
For IT Professionals
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Reviewed by Maureen Zimmerman, content project manager, Microsoft Press
If there's one must-have book for IT professionals deploying or running Windows Vista, this is it. The Windows Vista Resource Kit, Second Edition provides everything you need to know about deploying, configuring, managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Windows Vista in enterprise environments. The second edition has numerous updates covering the new features and enhancements found in Windows Vista Service Pack 1. It also focuses on running Windows Server 2008 in the back end—and highlights, where appropriate, the differences between running Windows Server 2008 and earlier Windows Server versions.
Lead author Mitch Tulloch and coauthors Tony Northrup and Jerry Honeycutt, who are all Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), together with scripting expert Ed Wilson, an author and senior consultant working with Microsoft Consulting Services, have worked hard to ensure that this second edition is the most comprehensive and accurate resource available for IT pros who work with Windows Vista. In addition, over 100 members of the Windows Vista Team at Microsoft added their own firsthand, invaluable insights—both by reviewing all the book materials and by writing the numerous "Direct from the Source" and "Direct from the Field" sidebars throughout the book.
The new edition provides more than 1,700 pages of in-depth technical guidance needed for daily administration and operations, including expert guidance on using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to deploy Windows Vista; an all-new chapter on Testing Application Compatibility; updated information on using the Windows Deployment Services role in Windows Server 2008; performing Zero Touch Installation (ZTI) using System Center Configuration Manager 2007; an examination of the new Group Policy features in Service Pack 1 with Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT); a completely updated section on working with Offline Files; a whole new section on troubleshooting device and device driver issues; detailed information concerning ACPI sleep states and troubleshooting issues with automatic sleep; substantial additional coverage of how Windows Search works and how to configure and use it; information on managing client certificates; a detailed explanation of Teredo states; and much more, including a dozen new sidebars written by experts on the Windows Vista Team.
The book’s companion CD features over 120 sample administration scripts written in VBScript; 25 sample Windows PowerShell scripts you can customize for managing various aspects of Windows Vista; miscellaneous scripts and troubleshooting tools; links to toolkits, documentation, and white papers you can view online or download from Microsoft; sample chapters from related Microsoft Press books; and a fully searchable e-book edition of the text.
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Special Offer
Free e-book offer: Writing Secure Code, Second Edition, by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc
Discover the best practices for writing secure code and stopping malicious hackers in their tracks—direct from the top security experts at Microsoft! For one week only, you can download the e-book of Writing Secure Code, Second Edition for free. This offer requires a valid Windows Live ID and the access code 7234-N4E8-4995. Activate your access code by August 28, 2008. Download the e-book today!
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August 20, 2008 
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For IT Professionals Windows Server 2008 Server Core Administrator's Pocket Consultant, by Mitch Tulloch with the Windows Server Core Team at Microsoft Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administrator's Pocket Consultant, by William R. Stanek
For Certification MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-237): Designing Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, by Paul Mancuso, David R. Miller, and Sam Sena, with GrandMasters |
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