Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Inside Out or Clean Code

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Inside Out

Author: William R Stanek

Take your Windows Server 2003 knowledge to the next level! Designed for Windows system administrators, this definitive resource delivers in-depth information about installing and configuring Windows Server 2003, performing upgrades and migrations, automating deployments, implementing security features, managing software updates and patches, administering users and accounts, managing Active Directory® directory services, and more. With INSIDE OUT, you'll discover the best and fastest ways to perform core administrative tasks, with an award-winning format that makes it easy to find exactly the tips, troubleshooting solutions, and workarounds you need. In addition, the CD-ROM contains an eBook and more than 100 timesaving tools and scripts.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	Windows Server 2003 overview and planning
Ch. 1	Introducing Windows Server 2003	3
Ch. 2	Planning for Windows Server 2003	31
Pt. 2	Windows Server 2003 installation
Ch. 3	Preparing for the installation and getting started	71
Ch. 4	Managing interactive installations	93
Ch. 5	Managing unattended installations	117
Ch. 6	Using remote installation services	153
Pt. 3	Windows Server 2003 upgrades and migrations
Ch. 7	Preparing for upgrades and migration	213
Ch. 8	Upgrading to Windows Server 2003	229
Ch. 9	Migrating to Windows Server 2003	251
Pt. 4	Managing Windows Server 2003 systems
Ch. 10	Configuring Windows Server 2003	285
Ch. 11	Windows Server 2003 MMC administration	305
Ch. 12	Managing Windows Server 2003	341
Ch. 13	Managing and troubleshooting hardware	377
Ch. 14	Managing the registry	409
Ch. 15	Performance monitoring and tuning	449
Ch. 16	Comprehensive performance analysis and logging	485
Pt. 5	Managing Windows Server 2003 storage and file systems
Ch. 17	Planning for high availability	523
Ch. 18	Preparing and deploying server clusters	537
Ch. 19	Storage management	587
Ch. 20	Managing Windows Server 2003 file systems	643
Ch. 21	File sharing and security	691
Ch. 22	Using volume shadow copy	727
Ch. 23	Using removable media	749
Pt. 6	Managing Windows Server 2003 networking and print services
Ch. 24	Managing TCP/IP networking	773
Ch. 25	Managing DHCP	807
Ch. 26	Architecting DNS infrastructure	851
Ch. 27	Implementing and managing DNS	873
Ch. 28	Implementing and maintaining WINS	927
Ch. 29	Installing and maintaining print services	945
Ch. 30	Using remote desktop for administration	1029
Ch. 31	Deploying terminal services	1035
Pt. 7	Managing active directory and security
Ch. 32	Active directory architecture	1085
Ch. 33	Designing and managing the domain environment	1105
Ch. 34	Organizing active directory	1149
Ch. 35	Configuring active directory sites and replication	1167
Ch. 36	Implementing active directory	1197
Ch. 37	Managing users, groups, and computers	1227
Ch. 38	Managing group policy	1281
Ch. 39	Active directory site administration	1327
Pt. 8	Windows Server 2003 disaster planning and recovery
Ch. 40	Disaster planning	1349
Ch. 41	Backup and recovery	1365

New interesting textbook: Ultimate Sacrifice or Forgotten Continent

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series)

Author: Robert C Martin

Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Noted software expert Robert C. Martin, presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Martin, who has helped bring agile principles from a practitioner’s point of view to tens of thousands of programmers, has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code “on the fly” into a book that will instill within you the values of software craftsman, and make you a better programmer—but only if you work at it.

What kind of work will you be doing? You’ll be reading code—lots of code. And you will be challenged to think about what’s right about that code, and what’s wrong with it. More importantly you will be challenged to reassess your professional values and your commitment to your craft.  

Clean Code is divided into three parts. The first describes the principles, patterns, and practices of writing clean code. The second part consists of several case studies of increasing complexity. Each case study is an exercise in cleaning up code—of transforming a code base that has some problems into one that is sound and efficient. The third part is the payoff: a single chapter containing a list of heuristics and “smells” gathered while creating the case studies. The result is a knowledge base that describes the way we think whenwe write, read, and clean code.
 
Readers will come away from this book understanding

• How to tell the difference between good and bad code
• How to write good code and how to transform bad code into good code
• How to create good names, good functions, good objects, and good classes
• How to format code for maximum readability
• How to implement complete error handling without obscuring code logic
• How to unit test and practice test-driven development
• What “smells” and heuristics can help you identify bad code

This book is a must for any developer, software engineer, project manager, team lead, or systems analyst with an interest in producing better code.