Michael Noel – författare

This is the most comprehensive and realistic guide to Windows Server 2012 planning, design, prototyping, implementation, migration, administration, and support. Extensively updated, it contains unsurpassed independent and objective coverage of Windows Server 2012’s key innovations, including improved virtualization components, enhanced security tools, new web and management resources, and Windows 8 integration.

 

Windows Server 2012 Unleashed reflects the authors’ extraordinary experience implementing Windows Server 2012 in large-scale environments since its earliest alpha releases, reaching back more than two years prior to its official launch. Microsoft MVP Rand Morimoto and his colleagues fully address every aspect of deploying and operating Windows Server 2012, including Active Directory, networking and core application services, security, migration from Windows Server 2003/2008, administration, fault tolerance, optimization, troubleshooting, and much more.

 

Valuable for Windows professionals at all skill levels, this book will be especially indispensable for intermediate-to-advanced level professionals seeking expert, in-depth solutions. Every chapter contains tips, tricks, best practices, and lessons learned from actual deployments: practical information for using Windows Server 2012 to solve real business problems.

  Plan and migrate from Windows Server 2003 and 2008   Leverage powerful capabilities that are truly new in Windows Server 2012   Install Windows Server 2012 and the GUI-less Windows Server Core   Upgrade to Windows Server 2012 Active Directory   Utilize advanced AD capabilities including federated forests and identity management   Plan and deploy network services, from DNS and DHCP to IPv6, IPAM, and IIS   Protect systems and data with server-level security, transport-level security, and security policies   Deliver true end-to-end secured anytime/anywhere access to remote/mobile clients   Efficiently configure and manage users, sites, OUs, domains, and for­ests through Server Manager console   Create more fault-tolerant environ­ments with DFS, clustering, and Network Load Balancing   Leverage major Hyper-V virtualization improvements in availability, redun­dancy, and guest support   Manage Active Directory more efficiently with Active Directory Administrative Center, Best Practice Analyzer, and PowerShell scripts   Systematically tune, optimize, debug, and troubleshoot Windows Server 2012

See It, Like It, Do It: Achieving Your Dreams, co-authored by Michael and ManuelaNoel provides you with the emotions of feeling hope, laughter, and grandeur as youwatch their lives unfold from having nothing to kissing a camel in Petra, lecturingto penguins in Antarctica, and driving a tank over an automobile in New Zealand! TheNoel''s share their sensational lives of joy, unveiling tips so you too can live thesame incredible lifestyles. They begin by sharing with you bits and pieces of theirstruggles, stepping out of their comfort zones and letting go of their lives whereonly happiness reigned, with their respective families. Their advice to you aboutcomfort zones, letting go in order to achieve your dreams, by never giving up, willprovide you with a good look at success. You will cheer them on, gasping for air inamazement while observing both Manuela and Mike fly by the seat of their pants,always landing on their two feet, because they were not afraid to take that leftturn in life. Working hard, with their eyes wide open, and always watching for thenext opportunity in life, will inspire you to get up and live every moment of yourlife, and never losing sight of your dreams. You will feel embraced by the warmth oftheir giving spirits to reach out and help so many others achieve their dreams, andbe happy you too, will know the goodness of two outstanding individuals who havebeen honored and recognized, by being inducted into the International Investor Hallof Fame, for their selflessness in helping others.