Volume 5: Identifying Threats of Data Loss, Recovery Management Strategy, and Security Issues with Backups, Archives, and Disaster Recovery
by Dan Sullivan

Volume 5 of the The Tips and Tricks Guide to Windows Administration addresses the following topics: 1) Identifying Threats of Data Loss in a Windows Server Environment, 2) Understanding the Building Blocks of a Recovery Management Strategy, and 3) Understanding Security Issues with Backups, Archives, and Disaster Recovery.

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Chapter 2: Breaking Through Technical Barriers to Effective Recovery Management
by Dan Sullivan

This chapter will examine several technical barriers commonly encountered when implementing recovery management services. These common challenges include: 1) Protecting virtual environments, 2) Meeting the specialized backup and recovery requirements of databases and content management systems, 3) Solving remote office backup and recovery challenges, and 4) Ensuring continuity in disaster recovery operations. Throughout this chapter, we will see examples of the need to adapt recovery management techniques to application‐specific requirements and systems‐implementation–specific requirements. These examples show that recovery management is much more than simply a matter of backing up files.

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How to Give Different Access to Smart Card Logins Using AD’s Authentication Mechanism Assurance
by Greg Shields

Usernames and passwords are good things. They provide a mechanism to prove that the identified person is indeed who they are. But usernames and passwords are only one component of authentication, providing merely “something you know.” Elevating a weak authentication system such as passwords to a strong authentication system also requires “something you have.”

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Chapter 2: How Business Intelligence Happens
by Don Jones

How, exactly, do you “get” a business intelligence (BI) system into your organization? BI hasn’t traditionally been something you just install onto a server or client computer, so it’s important to understand the process, tools, and techniques that are involved in implementing and creating it. Some of these may, in fact, be major reasons why your midsize company has avoided BI in the past-making it even more important to understand not only the technologies, tools, and techniques but also how they’ve evolved in recent years to meet the needs of companies other than giant enterprises.In this chapter, I’ll explain the basic processes by which BI is introduced into an environment. I”ll also look at some of the reasons BI is traditionally a time-consuming and expensive proposition for most companies, and set up some of the ways in which you can implement BI more easily and for less money. Think of this chapter as the “BI life cycle”-a look into what BI actually looks like inside an organization like yours.

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This book presents techniques to stop many kinds of bugs from being included in a program. It also discusses how to test programs to find bugs.

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This book is intended to cover all aspects of installing, configuring and administering Windows Server 2008 R2 systems. It also provides practical, step by step examples intended to bridge the gap between text book theory and real world practice.

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Chapter 1: What is User Workspace Management?
by Greg Shields

Today’s computing environments are growing more complex every day. Just a few years ago, the standard was one computer for every employee. But with today’s operating system upgrades, remote application infrastructures, VPN connections, desktop sharing, and hosted virtual desktops, a user’s personal computer isn’t all that personal any more.One central problem with this ever-widening architecture is in maintaining the user’s workspaces - the personal bits and pieces that make a computing environment comfortable for the user - each infrastructure. Using today’s Windows profiles to manage user workspaces just doesn’t cut it, and certainly doesn’t provide enough administrative control to scale well. In The Shortcut Guide to User Workspace Management, you will learn about the benefits and challenges of managing user workspaces, as well as why a User Workspace Management solution is an absolute must for today’s multiple access point environments

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