A highly portable, easily digestible road-map to configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting essential IIS 6.0 features.The book is organized around the 15 "MMCs" (Microsoft Management Consoles) that contain the configuration menus for the essential features. The options within each menu are explained clearly, potential problems are identified up-front, and configurations are subsequently presented in the aptly named "By the Book" section for that MMC. Readers will also appreciate the "Reality Check" sidebars througout, which present valuable cost/benefit analyses of situations where there is no single "right" answer. * A checklist for network engineers and administrators to make sure they have configured you network professionally and responsibily * The information needed by networking professionals responsible for configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Microsoft's Internet Information Server 6.0 * Cleeraly and concisly identifies those features of IIS that represent the highest risk factors for attacks

A highly portable, easily digestible road-map to configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting essential Exchange Server 2003 features. The book is organized around the 11 "MMCs" (Microsoft Management Consoles) that contain the configuration menus for the essential features. The options within each menu are explained clearly, potential problems are identified up-front, and configurations are subsequently presented in the aptly named "By the Book" section for that MMC. Readers will also appreciate the "Reality Check" sidebars throughout, which present valuable cost/benefit analyses of situations where there is no single "right" answer. * Walks the reader through step-by-step configurations to assure they have been thorough and responsible in their work * Clearly identifies those features of Exchange Server 2003 that represent the highest risk factors for attacks, performance degradation and service failures * CYA comes right out and says what most IT Professionals are already thinking

Umer Khan's first book, Cisco Security Specialist's Guide to PIX Firewalls, ISBN: 1931836639, has consistently maintained its spot as the #1 best-selling PIX book on amazon.com by providing readers with a clear, comprehensive, and independent introduction to PIX Firewall configuration. With the market for PIX Firewalls maintaining double digit growth and several major enhancements to both the PIX Firewall and VPN Client product lines, this book will have enormous appeal with the audience already familiar with his first book. The Cisco Pix firewall is the #1 market leading firewall, owning 43% market share. Cisco is poised to release the newest, completely re-designed version 7 of the Pix operating system in the first quarter of 2004 "Cisco Pix Firewalls: configure

How to Cheat at Managing Windows Small Business Server 2003 deals only with the vital, and will be a huge relief to the hundreds of thousands of managers who probably never imagined they would be managing the operating system equivalent of the Space Shuttle. The "80/20" Rule applied to managing a Windows Small Business Server 2003 network. Concise coverage, with ready-to-use solutions, of the most commonly encountered W2K3 Server tasks and problems. Written for the non-MCSE, with little technical training, who is responsible for running a small to medium sized network. Microsoft has announced it will no longer support Windows NT 4 products, effective Dec. 31, 2004. Millions of small businesses that did not upgrade to Windows Server 2000 will choose to upgrade directly to Windows Server 2003, and this will be a timely book.

* Completely up to date with the ASP.NET 2.0 technology and demonstrates the new best-practices and coding styles that it requires * Focuses on developer’s needs, explaining the technology in a manner applicable to development projects * Provides comprehensive coverage of ASP.NET 2.0 (with C# .NET 2.0), providing thorough understanding of the subject area

ASP.NET 3.5 is Microsoft’s principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform. Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 raises the bar for high–quality, practical advice on learning and deploying Microsoft’s dynamic web solution. This edition is updated with everything you need to integrate Silverlight 2.0 and SQL Server 2008 into your ASP.NET applications. You will learn about Silverlight’s exciting features so that your ASP projects can be rich in visual flair and compelling to the user. Seasoned .NET professionals Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta explain how you can get the most from this groundbreaking technology. They cover ASP.NET 3.5 as a whole, illustrating both the brand–new features and the functionality carried over from previous versions of ASP. This book will give you the knowledge you need to code real ASP.NET 3.5 applications in the best possible style.