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NEW FROM WINDOWS IT LIBRARY
* WINDOWS NT TROUBLESHOOTING
Learn all the tweaks, tips, and administration shortcuts necessary to keep a Windows NT environment trouble-free. This reference contains detailed solutions and preventive techniques for the most common NT hotspots.
http://www.WindowsITlibrary.com/documents/book.cfm?documentid=638
* WINDOWS 2000 AUTHENTICATION
This chapter looks at the most important OS security service--authentication--and how Windows 2000 implements it. Learn about the Win2K authentication architecture and the nuts and bolts of the Kerberos authentication protocol, such as how it compares with Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) and how it can be used as a single sign-on (SSO) solution between different OSs.
http://www.WindowsITlibrary.com/content/617/06/toc.html
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NEW BOOKS IN PRINT
* LDAP SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
If you want to be the master of your domain, "LDAP System Administration" will help you achieve mastery quickly regardless of which Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) version you use. After reading this book, you'll be able to integrate a directory server into essential network services such as mail, DNS, HTTP, and Server Message Block (SMB)or Common Internet File System (CIFS) even if you have no previous LDAP experience.
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".NET Web Services Solutions" offers practical solutions to the challenges you face as you use Microsoft .NET to create applications that communicate with Web services and to build and deploy Web services of your own. By the time you're finished reading this book, you'll understand how the Web services platform works because chapter by chapter you get all the hands-on instruction, detailed examples, and inside advice you need to make your project succeed.
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NEW EBOOKS
* CODENOTES FOR WEB-BASED UI
"CodeNotes for Web-Based UI" shows you how to use technologies such as JavaScript, Dynamic HTML (DHTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), XML, and Extensible Style Language Transformations (XSLT) to build sophisticated, high-performance UIs for Web-based applications. The book also details how to leverage technology and solve common Web-based presentation and manipulation problems. Web designers and programmers will develop a better understanding of common Web-based design challenges and discover common approaches to solving these problems.
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* THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO IT CERTIFICATION
The "Insider's Guide to IT Certification" is a comprehensive how-to manual that will help you conserve your time and money while you become certified. This book will help you choose the right certification to study for, the right materials and methods to study with, and the proper ways to prepare for the exams.
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WINDOWS IT LIBRARY TOP FIVE
* THE MICROSOFT OUTLOOK E-MAIL AND FAX GUIDE
Written for Microsoft Outlook end users and the administrators who support them, this volume explains all the real-world tasks that you're likely to encounter when working with Outlook, plus many timesaving techniques that take you beyond the basics.
http://www.WindowsITlibrary.com/documents/book.cfm?documentid=191
* OPTIMIZING WINDOWS NT
With the expert advice of Sean Daily, you'll quickly learn how to tune your Windows NT system to get the best performance out of your existing network. This book offers working solutions for everyday networking problems and includes hundreds of benchmarking, maintenance, troubleshooting, and recovery tips.
http://www.WindowsITlibrary.com/documents/book.cfm?documentid=435
* MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT SERVER ADMINISTRATOR'S BIBLE: OPTION PACK EDITION
This book, with specific coverage of the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack add-ons, can help you plan, install, configure, manage, optimize, and connect NT Server 4.0 to the Internet.
http://www.WindowsITlibrary.com/documents/book.cfm?documentid=405
* MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT SECRETS: OPTION PACK EDITION
Packed with the kind of notes, tips, and workarounds that come only from years of working day-in and day-out with a product, this book will help you optimize the performance, reliability, and security of your network.
http://www.WindowsITlibrary.com/documents/book.cfm?documentid=329
* A+ CERTIFICATION: HOW TO PASS YOUR EXAMS
This book walks you through all the skills tested in the Computing Technology Industry Association's (CompTIA's) CompTIA A+ certification exam--both the A+ Core Hardware exam and the A+ OS Technologies exam.
http://www.WindowsITlibrary.com/documents/book.cfm?documentid=175
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TECHNICAL TIP
* NT REGISTRY EDITING CAVEATS
This tip is excerpted from James Stewart's "Key to Optimizing and Tuning Windows NT 4.0" (29th Street Press, 1999).
http://www.WindowsITlibrary.com/documents/book.cfm?documentID=113
Editing the Registry is a dangerous activity. You can bring NT to its knees with a single incorrect Registry value. Because a nonfunctioning NT system is as useful as a boat anchor for supporting your network, you should take several precautions to ensure the life of your system.
-- Always back up all data on the computer.
-- Always make a separate backup of the Registry.
-- Save the Registry in five individual files--one for each main subtree.
-- Store the individual subtree files on a local drive, a network drive, and floppies (if size allows).
-- Reboot the machine before editing.
-- Boot while holding down the left Shift button to force NT to skip launching items from the Startup folder.
-- Perform only one change at a time.
-- Reboot immediately after each change.
-- Always test changes first on nonproduction, noncritical systems.
-- Use REGEDT32's read-only mode when you explore the Registry.
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