Mission-Critical Active Directory: Architecting a Secure and Scalable Infrastructure (HP Technologies)

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Learn from Compaq's own Active Directory experts techniques and best practices for creating a secure and scalable network foundation for Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000.

Mission-Critical Active Directory provides systems designers and administrators within growing and large organizations with techniques and insights into Active Directory. Using this information, they can build a Windows 2000 network that reliably accommodates many thousands of new users, computers, and programs. Few individuals possess the knowledge of Active Directory design, operation, and security necessary to build a truly secure and stable Windows 2000 system. Now two of these experts--Compaq's own resident authorities--share their methods and experiences with readers.

Uniquely treats Active Directory as a true enterprise networking foundation
Special focus on Active Directory scalability and security
A technically sophisticated, intermediate book - does for Active Directory what Redmond does for Exchange Server

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Mediocre at best.......2003-05-14

This book was a disappointment.

I really figured that since the title has the word "Infrastructure" in it, that the book might be about building an Active Directory infrastructure. It is actually a Windows2000 security book with some AD basics thrown in.

The book goes into medium level detail on DNS, replication, and some pretty good security topics including Kerberos, Group Security and PKI.

The comparison tables were somewhat helpful and the KCC section was pretty good. But for the most part, there is nothing new here - and nothing that one can't read on Microsoft's web site, or in any other ýMCSEý book.

IMNSHO; Infrastructure issues that admins have problems with are with eliminating WINS, migrating DNS, establishing split DNS, multiple domains, and NT4 Member server migration not to mention Windows98 issues. I find it really hard to believe that Compaq had none of these issues during the migration process. The ýMigrationý section was absolutely paltry and poorly written.

My impression is that there were two distinct voices here; a non-technical project manager and a Windows Security person - neither of which are talking to an infrastructure engineer.

If you read the preface, it is apparent that the writers were very happy with their QTEST experiment, which I am guessing was mostly others (deClerq and company) with Ballidelli taking the credit.

Snore.

Stan Yarbrough
MCSE, CCDP, CCNP
Network Architect
North Highland
Tampa, FL

Almost a Classic!.......2002-05-13

The Telecommunications Technology Program [URL] at Sheridan College seeks out the best books to support the courses. Along with books by Radia Perlmen, Christian Huitema, Geoff Huston, Stevens, Comer etc. we now include Balladelli and De Clercq. This book is the right mix of practical and conceptual information in a clear, thorough and very well edited package. From DDNS to PKI the book unravels AD by examining how it works and how it ties with standards. For the students, this book is a keeper and I know of no higher praise!

Awesome!.......2001-08-17

Everything that you ever wanted to know about AD but were afraid to ask! This book really gets down to the "nuts and bolts" level of Active Directory, yet it is surprisingly easy to read. The authors make even the more arcane topics of replication, kerberos authentication, and PKI easy to understand while still covering the subject matter at a depth and scope that even the most avid geek will appreciate.

It is not all theory, however. The book is full of practical information that will prove highly useful to IT professionals in both large and small enterprise settings (the stuff on DNS was some of the best I have read anywhere).

Worth every penny!

Beyond the Basics.......2001-07-28

There are a sea of Windows 2000 books out there but few go beyond the basics. Finally, a book that tackles the intricacies of Active Directory. This book is SUPERB! It is absolutely my favorite information source for Active Directory.

Superb.......2001-01-26

If you are looking for a superb book regarding Active Directory implementation in a real world environment of todays enterprise - this is what you need. You might not get the tips and tricks you are looking for if you want to become a MCSE but you get all the information you need if you have to build a scalable and secure Windows 2000 / Active Directory environment for your enterprise.

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This revised and updated portfolio includes nearly 200 images by the master portrait photographer. The best known faces of our time have been memorably "Karshed"--a glowering Churchill (his trademark cigar having been just snatched out of his mouth), a beaming Khruschev peeking out from a massive fur coat, a serene Helen Keller reading a book of Braille with quiet delight, a pensive Tennessee Williams at his typewriter, an impish Margaret O'Brien yanking at her pigtails. Karsh's portraits of fellow artists--especially sculptors and architects--are among his most sensitive and intuitive.

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An insightful and sensetive look at famous 20th cent. people.......1999-06-15

A wonderful retrospective view of Karsh's most famous photographs.Most portraits are in black and white and capture rare insights of the most influential people in the arts, politics, academics and entertainment. All photographs are brilliantly reproduced, most in full page format. The comments by Karsh reveal personal insights adding a dimension of accessibility to the most revered in our century. There are also numerous excellently reproduced color portraits, which along with the black and white portraits, are reproduced in a wonderful satin finish. There are many portraits from the 40's and 50's including his most famous portrait of Winston Churchill and powerful portraits such as the back of Pablo Casals playing the cello in an austerely but masterfully lit setting.

This book is a genuinely beautiful work of art. It will bring joy to the young and old at heart and will prove to be one of those treasures which one is proud to cherish for generations.

Exceptional photographic studies of familiar faces........1999-03-25

This is a must have book for the portrait photographer. Or for anyone who just enjoys famous faces.Years of wonderful portrait studies of people we all know and admire. These portraits make us feel as if we are really getting to know these people up close. Such emotions are rare to be captured as still images. A SUCCESS in portraiture!!!

Yousuf Karsh: Heroes of Light and Shadow

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Yousuf Karsh: Heroes of Light and Shadow
Yousuf Karsh , Dieter Vorsteher , and Janet Yates
Manufacturer: Stoddart
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ASIN: 0773733108

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Karsh, the art of the portrait: Essays

Manufacturer: National Gallery of Canada
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Karsh: A Biography In Images
Malcolm Rogers
Manufacturer: MFA Publications
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ASIN: 0878466711
Release Date: 2004-01-02

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During his remarkable life, Yousuf Karsh, who was born in Armenia in 1908, traveled the globe to photograph subjects ranging from historical figures to anonymous farmers to steelworks. Karsh: A Biography In Images is a full revision of the 1996 60-year retrospective of his work and brings that popular catalogue back into print in an affordable paperback format. This new edition covers the photographer's career with greater breadth than its previous incarnation, adding works from his early experiments and his photojournalism commissions in Canada. Karsh's reputation as one of the most sought-after portrait photographers of the 20th century is well established. A roll call of his subjects is a veritable who's who of the modern age--Winston Churchill, Jacqueline Kennedy, Pablo Picasso, Walt Disney, Elizabeth Taylor and Albert Einstein, to name just a few--and this book features many of these figures, in some of the most recognized images of our time. But added to the portraits are a number of lesser-known or previously unpublished photographs--early figure studies, atmospheric views of the Ottawa theatre and scenes of wheat fields, city streets and factories across Canada. With its long autobiographical essay and extensive captions for each photo, many of them new to this edition, Karsh: A Biography In Images is both an elegant celebration and an indispensable overview of a life lived in photography. Yousuf Karsh passed away last year.

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Faces of destiny;: Portraits by Karsh
Yousuf Karsh
Manufacturer: George G. Harrap Co., Ltd
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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Karsh Portraits
Yousuf Karsh
Manufacturer: University of Toronto Press
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Karsh: American Legends (Springs of Achievement Series on the Art of Photography)

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Karsh: American Legends (Springs of Achievement Series on the Art of Photography)

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Churchill (Portrait of Greatness) (Portrait of Greatness)

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Churchill (Portrait of Greatness) (Portrait of Greatness)
Relman Morin
Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000E38Z6E

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Oversize Hardcover with red leatherette binding and gilt design. Many B & W historical photos by different photographers: Churchill with Roosevelt, De Gaulle, Queen Elizabeth, Eisenhower, etc.

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Faces of destiny
Yousuf Karsh
Manufacturer: Ziff-Davis Pub. Co
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Karsh
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Global Issues investigates and presents an in-depth look at sixteen gripping, contemporary issues ranging from the rise of China as a world superpower to the challenge of reducing global poverty. This proven reader asks important, timely questions--none with easy answers: Is enough being done to stop and prevent genocide? Are Western governments dealing effectively with the global jihadists? Should the U.S. government do more to combat avian flu overseas? To facilitate sound analysis, each of these reports explains who the players are, what's at stake, and why recognizing past and current developments is so crucial to the future. Each article also includes the following special features: a pro/con box that examines two competing sides of a single issue question; detailed chronology; annotated bibliography and Web resources; plus photos, charts, graphs, and maps.

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Clear View of global issues

Global Issues 2005: Selections from the CQ Researcher

Manufacturer: CQ Press
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ASIN: 1568028946

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Clear View of global issues.......2005-09-27

The book was in a excellent condition when it was shipped to me. I had no great expectation from used books but since I got this book I started setting high standards for used books too...

Global Issues: Selections from the Cq Researcher

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Global Issues: Selections from the Cq Researcher
Michael Jacobs
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For those concerned and interested in international politics, this timely collection features high-quality, objective reporting of important and newsworthy issues that have global reach and scope. Sixteen issues of the award-winning CQ Researcher look at issues dealing with international political economy, international cooperation, human rights, democratization, the global environment, international security, and religion.

Global Issues: Selections from the Cq Researcher (Researcher Collection)

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Global Issues: Selections from the Cq Researcher (Researcher Collection)

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Global Issues: Selections from CQ Researcher, 2008 Edition

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Global Issues: Selections from CQ Researcher, 2008 Edition
The CQ Researcher
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ASIN: 0872894657

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In spite of widespread expectations of improvements in living standards and health conditions, in most of the countries of the former Soviet bloc the transition to the market economy was accompanied by a sharp increase in (already high) death rates. Such an increase provoked an 'excess mortality' of some three million people over the period 1989-96 alone, an unprecedented phenomenon in peacetime. Such a crisis remains poorly explained, has generated a limited policy response in the countries concerned and international organizations, and is bound to generate important political and economic repercussions. This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the mortality crisis in transitional economies, of its causes, and of its remedies on the basis - among others - of micro data sets and quasi-panels on health trends which have never been used before. Contributions by demographers, economists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and health experts provide a rigorous analysis of the upsurge in mortality rates, with the aim of contributing to the launch of vigorous policies to tackle the crisis.

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Quantum Leaps is a how-to book for creating fundamental change in both ourselves and our organizations. Charlotte Shelton's basic premise is that organizational change happens one person at a time. Our workplaces simply mirror our individual and collective beliefs. Therefore, we change ourselves, our workplaces, and the world by changing our minds. As our beliefs change, we not only see the world differently, we begin to be in the world in a different way, thus creating a new reality.

Shelton uses the basic principles of quantum mechanics as the foundational metaphor for a new quantum skill set that recognizes the highly complex, constantly changing, totally unpredictable nature of life. She demonstrates the inadequacy of our time-honored skills of planning, organizing, directing and controlling. She shows how these skills are directly tied to an obsolete view or reality ignoring the now fundamental requirements of extreme imagination and radical innovation.

Quantum Leaps introduces seven new skills: skills that are compatible with life and work in the twenty-first century. These seven Quantum Skills enable us to see, think, feel, know, act, trust and be radically different ways. Collectively they form a comprehensive model for change.

These skills integrate quantum mechanical principles, state-of-the-art-psychology, and universal spiritual practices. They balance the traditional left-brain business skills with a new skill set that more fully utilizes both hemispheres of the brain. As we master these skills, Shelton states, "We create balanced lives and whole-brain organizations and we become authentic change masters, changing ourselves and our organizations from the inside out."

The Seven Quantum Skills are: Quantum Seeing, Quantum Thinking, Quantum Feeling, Quantum Knowing, Quantum Acting, Quantum Trusting and Quantum Being. These 7 skills introduce a new way to access underutilized brain capacities as they acknowledge the role of intention, intuition and interconnectivity.

· First really practical application of "new science theories" to the workplace¦visual models, anecdotal examples, and application exercises
· Quantum Leaps introduces 7 quantum skills necessary for surviving and thriving in a highly complex, constantly changing, totally unpredicatable world
· Integrates quantum mechanical principles, state-of-the-art psychology and universal spiritual practices into behavioral skills for individual and organizational change

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READ THIS BOOK!.......2000-05-22

I sincerely wish that everyone would read "Quantum Leaps". If so there would be a "Quantum Leap" in individual and universal consciousness. She explains new scientific technology in a clear and easily understandable way. Her examples and explanations are excellent and clearly point out the necessity for a change in consciousness from the old Newtonian mechanistic to the world of today's Quantum Physics. This book is simplistic enough to be read by someone unfamiliar with current technology and it is also able to captivate the mind and imagination most erudite. Warning - pleased be advised that you may find yourself buying copies for your friends and stopping strangers on the street telling them to read this book.

great for business & academia.......1999-12-17

As both a business executive and an MBA professor, I found Dr. Shelton's book to be extremely helpful. The blend of science, psychology, religion and organizational development created a solid research-based theoretical foundation, and the action-oriented exercises at the end of each chapter were helpful for practical application. I highly recommend this book to leaders, managers, academics and those desiring to better integrate their personal values with their organizational life.

A welcomed and practical intro to changing the workplace.......1999-02-18

This highly readable and usable book introduces us to the world of quantum mechanics as underlying principles of our personal and business lives. Quantum Leaps actually presents hard science simplified with plenty of examples to show that the theories work. Quantum Leaps goes way beyond cheerleading readers toward bold acts. Because each of the seven skills is actually based in the new science of quantum mechanics that shows the way the universe really works, each of us can use the described skills of quantum thinking, acting, feeling, being, seeing, trusting and knowing with the confidence of using scientific instruments. Charlotte Shelton has done us all a favor by translating the mystery of the new science into the simplicity of skills to use every day. By doing so she has given us a vital new stepping stone toward the 21st century and an evolutionary step toward quantum living. Her fresh and elegant approach paints an encouraging future for all of us.

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Having toppled the bookselling giants on-line, Jeff Bezos is now leading Amazon.com
its list, not to mention a makeover for the web's most recognisable site, is Amazon
pushing its luck or positioning for the future of e-commerce? The so-called 'market
correction' has questioned the future of e-retailing, but for Amazon the future is still
bright.
Now completely updated for this new edition, Business the Amazon.com Way shows
how Jeff Bezos is leading Amazon into the harvesting phase, promising a great ride for
investors, a great experience for shoppers and a model for entrepreneurs and business
leaders everywhere.

Customer Reviews:

First Hand Experience from an Amazon Seller........2006-10-02

I can tell you first hand how Amazon makes easy money. I am a formal seller here at Amazon. Not a big seller,but an honest one with a 5 star rating and zero claims.However Amazon allows dishonest buyer's to do chargebacks months after a purchase and then has nothing in place to assist seller's in getting their merchandise back. Sounds like retail fraud to me!! I wish there was a lower rating to give to this website.They are truly at the bottom!!

Simplistic, Outdated Guide to E-Commerce Success. .......2006-07-27

"Business the Amazon.com Way" (first edition) was published in 1999, at the height of dot-com mania, when Amazon had 1,000 employees and was trading at $209 a share. So it's hopelessly dated. The book might still have merit if it included a good history of Amazon's early years, but the information on Amazon's foundation and early growth is sketchy. This book was aimed at aspiring internet entrepreneurs, touting the endless possibilities for business on the web and presenting Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos as a shining example of e-commerce success. "Business the Amazon.com Way" is a simplistic handbook for web businesses more than a study of Amazon, and it looks even more naïve in retrospect, considering the dot-com crash.

Author Rebecca Saunders catalogs the reasons for Amazon's success that could be applied to your internet start-up: know your customers, update pages frequently, link from related sites, have clear long-term goals, brand the site, be customer-centric, staffing and recruiting, a distribution plan for fast order fulfillment and delivery, frugality, state-of-the-art technology, constant innovation, continual growth. And we get a general idea of how Jeff Bezos and the early Amazonians went about accomplishing these things. But it's pretty simple stuff. I don't think "Business the Amazon.com Way" did anything more than state the obvious, in limited detail, in 1999. If you're looking for a primer on Amazon's early years, Robert Spector's "Amazon.com: Get Big Fast" (2000) is equally enthusiastic and uncritical, but it is much more useful.

Very basic work.......2000-12-07

Very basic book on doing business via the web. This should have been released a generation ago when Amazon.com itself was finding its way. The new enterpreneur exploring online business is more knowledgeble than the informaiton and insight provided here and hence can disappoint reading it. It may be suitable for those who are hearing the name of e-business and trying to set up the business online for the first time in their country to know what happend when Jeff Bezos tried doing so for the first time in the history. Certainly this book is not for those who already heard about e-business.

200+ pages of nothing........2000-11-27

Ms. Saunders has taken riding someone else's wave to a new low - two waves really. The first is the branding and selling power of anything with "Amazon.com" on it. The second is the hope that this book will follow in the footsteps of Robert Spector's, "The Nordstrom Way," in giving the reader some insight into the world's leading and most successful e-commerce enterprise. Unfortunately, she fails to even remotely live up to either.

The book is dry and completely uninformative. Even worse, it's factually incorrect. A couple examples (though there are many, many others):

According to Saunders, Amazon.com set up shop in Seattle, Washington because Ingram is there. Um, Ingram is in Oregon, not Washington. What the heck is the Federal Trust Commission? I think it's usually referred to as the Federal Trade Commission.

These two errors and the many others in this book have regrettably been printed before - usually in the popular press - which speaks volumes about where she got her material.

The book is marketed as an investigative look at the business model and "Ten Secrets" that make it work. Considering the legendary secrecy surrounding Amazon.com's business and the supposed investigative nature of this book, I find it pretty amazing that she knocked it out without attempting to consult a single (current or former) insider. But then again, after the first two pages it becomes very clear that she had no intention of going out of her way. The book itself is about as pure an attempt to capitalize on Amazon.com's success as could have been imagined. Oh, and the ten secrets touted on the cover are actually basic common sense and obvious to anyone who visits Amazon.com on any sort of a regular basis.

If you're curious about Amazon.com, I say stick to Spector and read, "Amazon.com - Get Big Fast," (ISBN: 0066620414).

Keep in mind that as of this writing, there really is no truly in-depth factual piece on Amazon.com and it's business model. You can get more information about Amazon.com from the New York Times archives (online) or almost any Wall Street analyst who covers the company.

How much money came out of the pockets of Amazon Executives?.......2000-09-20

It seems like more and more these days books are being written by horrible authors that companies could pick up off the streets and have them write a book entirely about their company, but hide it as being a guide to successful e-commerce. If your looking at e-commerce, you don't just focus on one "semi-successful business", you focus on the many different e-commerce companies out there and you compare and contrast at their success. This book skims the surface on Amazon...but you are looking for more.

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