Books about Deploying from Amazon.com

To help you take full advantage of Active Directory, this fourth edition of this bestselling book gives you a thorough grounding in Microsoft's network directory service With Active Directory, you'll learn how to design, manage, and maintain an AD infrastructure, whether it's for a small business network or a multinational enterprise with thousands of resources, services, and users. This detailed and highly accurate volume covers Active Directory from its origins in Windows 2000 through Windows Server 2008. But unlike typical dry references, Active Directory presents concepts in an easy-to-understand, narrative style. With this book, you will: Get a complete review of all the new Windows 2008 features Learn how Active Directory works with Exchange and PowerShell Take advantage of the updated scripting and programming chapters to automate AD tasks Learn how to be more efficient with command-line tools Grasp concepts easily with the help of numerous screenshots and diagrams

Ideal for administrators, IT professionals, project managers, and programmers alike, Active Directory is not only for people getting started with AD, it's also for experienced users who need to stay up-to-date with the latest AD features in Windows Server 2008. It is no wonder this guide is the bestselling AD resource available..
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Text provides a catalog of sixty-five patterns, with real-world solutions that demonstrate the formidable power of messaging and help you design effective messaging solutions for your enterprise. DLC: Telecommunication--Message processing..
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Announcing an all-new Self-Paced Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on 70-238, one of the required exams for the new Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Enterprise Messaging Administrator certification. This 2-in-1 kit includes the official Microsoft study guide, plus practice tests on CD to help you assess your skills. It comes packed with the tools and features exam candidates want most including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and customizable testing options. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for the skills and expertise you can apply to the job.

Work at your own pace through the lessons and lab exercises. Focusing on deploying messaging solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, this official study guide covers topics such as planning: Exchange Server 2007 upgrade and migration implementations; backup and recover solutions; server role, storage group, and Exchange services deployments; antivirus, anti-spam, messaging compliance, and network layer security implementations; and, change management, patch and service packs implementation, and monitoring and reporting.

Then assess yourself using 200+ practice questions on the CD, featuring multiple, customizable testing options to meet your specific needs. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get an evaluation version of Exchange Server 2007 software and an exam discount voucher making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.

Key Book Benefits:

Comprehensive exam prep study guide

In-depth coverage of exam objectives and sub-objectives plus instructive case studies and troubleshooting scenarios to enhance your performance on the job

200+ practice and review questions

Test engine that enables customized testing, pre-assessment and post-assessment, and automated scoring and feedback

Complete objective-by-objective review section, plus a handy exam-mapping grid

Evaluation version of Exchange Server 2007

15 percent exam-discount voucher from Microsoft (limited time offer)

Entire study guide in searchable eBook format.
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Dramatically improve your implementation and administration of Exchange Server 2007 with the PowerShell tips contained in Professional Windows® PowerShellTM for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1. Discover the ins and outs of PowerShell, including how to deploy, configure, manage, and maintain your Exchange environment. Explore Windows PowerShell and the Exchange Server 2007 Management Shell and learn how to work with the new Exchange server roles, cmdlets and features specific to these roles. Learn quickly from the numerous, easy-to-follow examples and apply the information to enhance your Exchange experience..
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First you'll learn how to build out your shared, virtual, or dedicated host. Then, you'll see how to build your applications for production and deploy them with one step, every time. Deploying Rails Applications will take you from a simple shared host through a highly scalable clustered and balanced setup with Nginx.

See how to tell whether you've bought enough firepower, and learn how to optimize your Rails projects applications in a systemic, rational way. Take advantage of advanced caching techniques, and become and expert with the latest servers in Nginx and Mongrel. Don't worry. You'll get a dose of Apache too.

Not only will you learn how to configure your production environment, you'll also see how to monitor it with free, automated tools that can restart your servers when the memory use gets too high for comfort. You'll see how to take a performance baseline, profile for bottlenecks, and solve the most common performance problems you're likely to see.

You'll learn:

Everything from source control and migrations to Capistrano, rake tasks and beyond.

Directly from authors who run EngineYard, one of the best Rails hosts in the business.

How to deploy your applications to multiple production servers with a single command using Capistrano.

How to setup a Rails/Nginx/Mongrel cluster for applications with high scalabilty needs.

...and more!

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"A comprehensive, thoughtful, and detailed book that will be of inestimable value to anyone struggling with the complex details of designing, building, and maintaining an enterprise-wide decision support system. Highly recommended." -Robert S. Craig, Vice President, Application Architectures, Hurwitz Group, Inc.

In his bestselling book, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Ralph Kimball showed you how to use dimensional modeling to design effective and usable data warehouses. Now, he carries these techniques to the larger issues of delivering complete data marts and data warehouses. Drawing upon their experiences with numerous data warehouse implementations, he and his coauthors show you all the practical details involved in planning, designing, developing, deploying, and growing data warehouses. Important topics include:
* The Business Dimensional Lifecycle(TM) approach to data warehouse project planning and management
* Techniques for gathering requirements more effectively and efficiently
* Advanced dimensional modeling techniques to capture the most complex business rules
* The Data Warehouse Bus Architecture and other approaches for integrating data marts into super-flexible data warehouses
* A framework for creating your technical architecture
* Techniques for minimizing the risks involved with data staging
* Aggregations and other effective ways to boost data warehouse performance
* Cutting-edge, Internet-based data warehouse security techniques

The CD-ROM supplies you with:
* Complete data warehouse project plan tasks and responsibilities
* A set of sample models that demonstrate the Bus Architecture
* Blank versions of the templates and tools described in the book
* Checklists to use at key points in the project.
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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 provide you with a rich framework for collaborative applications. Packed with practical, real-world examples, this book offers you clear instructions for implementing workflow, custom activities, and conditions into SharePoint applications. You’ll discover how to deploy workflow template files and features, program SharePoint external data exchange, send WCF messages from a SharePoint workflow, and develop custom Office SharePoint Designer 2007 actions and conditions..
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Whether building a console application, a web service, or a smart client, you eventually need to distribute your finished work. Deploying .NET Applications is a complete guide to delivering applications built with .NET. Packed with hands-on guidance, practical examples, and war stories from the authors many experiences with deployment scenarios, this book provides everything you need to know.

The book begins by introducing the deployment problem, then examines why deployment is an engineering problem for organizations. Subsequent chapters provide detail about deploying each type of application, then discuss automated deployments. Youll want to get ahold of this book because it

• Includes hands-on detail about the newest deployment tools, MSBuild and ClickOnce
• Discusses many best practices of .NET 2.0 software deployment
• Covers details about automating new software deployments

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Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system specifically designed for small and large computing environments that demand the highest level of data availability. This book takes an in-depth look at Xsan 2 components, requirements, topologies, and installation challenges. System administrators and other IT professionals will learn about storage and network terminology; about the deployment options offered by Xsan 2 and how to plan a deployment; how to identify the basic structure of Xsan volumes; how to work with client and server configurations; how to manage failover; and about controlling user access to SAN volumes..
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“ClickOnce demos may look simple, but those techniques only work for simple applications. Brian Noyes gives us the information we need to use ClickOnce in the real world, and he does it with a comprehensive and organized presentation. If you expect your smart client application to move very far beyond ‘Hello,World,’ you’ll want this book to help you deploy it.”
—Billy Hollis, president/owner, Elysian Consulting, Microsoft Regional Director

“Once again Brian has outdone himself. As a writer, I tend to be very critical of all technical publications, including my own . . . and it is such a pleasure to read anything Brian writes because he studies his topics well, resulting in an accurate, thorough, yet concise piece of work. ClickOnce being a new technology that deals with the pains we all have with application deployment, versioning, and security, it is important to have a text that will guide you through the learning process, give you sound advice for adopting the technology, and explain why you should even care. Brian gives his readers all of that.”
—Michele Leroux Bustamante, chief architect, IDesign, Microsoft Regional Director

“ClickOnce is the key to Windows and smart client deployment. Brian’s book is the key to successfully using ClickOnce. This book walks you through using ClickOnce, from the basics to advanced scenarios. It is an excellent resource.”
—Rockford Lhotka, principal technology evangelist, Magenic Technologies, Microsoft Regional Director

“Brian covers ClickOnce with a view to real-world deployment issues, which isobviously based on real-world experience. In and of itself, that is enough forme to buy the book. However, it is an even better investment by virtue of thefact that ClickOnce is a core part of the .NET Framework for Windows Forms2.0 now, and Windows Presentation Foundation in the future.”
—Michael Weinhardt, SDK programmer/writer, Application Model,Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft

“This book covers the most important ingredient needed for the success of asmart client application—deployment. The author’s unassuming writing style,combined with his in-depth coverage of the topic, makes this book an invaluableresource for all serious smart client developers.”
—Vishwas Lele, principal architect, Applied Information Sciences,Microsoft Regional Director

Microsoft’s new ClickOnce auto-updating technology can radically simplify application deployment. Using it, .NET developers and architects can deliver a powerful, smart client experience along with the easy maintenance of today’s best Web applications.

Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Brian Noyes has unsurpassed experience previewing and teaching ClickOnce to professional developers. In Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce, Noyes demonstrates exactly how to make the most of ClickOnce in your real-world enterprise applications. Noyes covers ClickOnce design, architecture, security, installation, updates, and Bootstrapping—each with a full case study and detailed sample code.

This focused, concise book explains how to

• Design client applications for efficient deployment and auto-updating
• Perform application deployments and automatic updates quickly and easily
• Deliver “on-demand” client application updates
• Deploy prerequisites with the Visual Studio 2005 Bootstrapper
• Take full control of ClickOnce’s powerful publishing, update, and security options
• Leverage the Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0 platform features that make ClickOnce possible
• Understand how your application will behave in the ClickOnce runtime environment

The book’s sample code is available for download at www.softinsight.com/clickoncebook.

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