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 See larger picture | The Best Damn Exchange, SQL and IIS Book Period (Best Damn) (Book Period)
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Henrik Walther, Mark Horninger, and Chris Adams
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Product Description Exchange, SQL and IIS are at the core of most Microsoft enterprise servers. The 2007 releases of these products, along with the release of Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server, represents the biggest overhaul of Windows enterprise products since Windows 2000. The dramatic changes to security tools and the addition of features that support "anywhere access" present IT professionals with a steep learning curve. Making certain that these products are configured to meet regulatory compliance requirements adds addtionaly complexity to day-to-day management network management.
The Best Damn Exchange, SQL and IIS Book Period delivers an all-in-one reference for Windows System Administrators deploying the 2007 releases of these core Microsoft servers. The coverage is comprehensive, and provides users with just about everything they need to manage a Windows enterprise server. Special Bonus coverage includes how to gather and analyze the many log files generated by these servers.
Key Features:
* All-in-one coverage includes Exchange, SQL, and IIS Servers
* Integrated coverage on all key security features
* Bonus coverage includes analyzing server logs and integrating Communicator 2007
Featured Customer Reviews The Worst Damn Exchange, SQL and IIS Book Period,
June 16, 2008 This book should be titled "The Worst Damn...".
I have only read the SQL section up to this point but this book is only useful for intermediate level DBAs and if you are an intermediate DBA you wouldn't need the book so I'm not sure where it fits into the hierarchy of information but it defiantly is not for beginners or anyone coming from a different RDBMS.
My biggest complaint is that the book in not organized progressively building your knowledge upon what you read in a previous section. The norm is to introduce a specific feature, for example stored procedures, without any prior definition, the author just tells you out of the blue to use stored procedure xyz and never explains what a stored procedure is. This happens over and over again and you will quickly find yourself frustrated because you can't follow along as you have no previous knowledge of what the author is talking about.
There are no installation instructions other than to tell you that you should only install the necessary modules for your environment. There is no mention of how to create a database; the author just starts talking about roles, security, authentication mode, etc.
Again, I'm not sure what anyone could get out of this book because you have to already have a sound understanding of SQL to follow along and if you already have a sound understanding of SQL these guys aren't telling you anything you don't already know.
I hope the sections on Exchange and IIS are better.
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