<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:12 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@netdirect.ca">john@netdirect.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</font></div><div class="Ih2E3d">>This post is a bit off topic - but I'm assuming there are others who<br>>have to <br>>support Windows. I wanted to write to the list because I know Linux<br>>folk <br>>love to know the ins and outs of how things work and you'd be my best<br>
>resource. :)<br>><br>>I'm looking for some book recommendations on supporting and<br>>configuring<br>>Windows AD, policies and printing, as well as something on SCCM and<br>>SCOM.<br><br></div>I should give you a serious response too.</div>
</font></blockquote><div><br>:) Thanks!<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><font size="2" face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div>
<br><br>I know I've seen books talking about AD which would include policies in book stores. As for the others I don't recall.</div></font></blockquote><div><br>For those interested - this is the list I submitted (best guess with reviews):<br>
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Active Directory: Designing, Deploying, and Running Active Directory (Paperback)<br>
by Brian Desmond (Author), Joe Richards (Author), Robbie Allen (Author), Alistair G Lowe-Norris (Author)<br>
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Active Directory Cookbook (Paperback)<br>
by Laura E Hunter (Author), Robbie Allen (Author)<br>
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System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Unleashed (Paperback)<br>
by Kerrie Meyler (Author), Byron Holt (Author), Pete Zerger (Author)<br>
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Windows Server 2008 Inside Out (Paperback)<br>
by William R. Stanek (Author) <br>
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With this hopeful addition: ;)<br>
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Linux Administration Handbook (Paperback)<br>
by Evi Nemeth (Author), Garth Snyder (Author), Trent R. Hein (Author)<br>
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<br><br>I can't help you otherwise, except to say that I rely on the courses I've taken, my knowledge of LDAP, experience and google searches to work with the limited number of AD and windows servers I've had the mis^H^H^Hfortune of supporting.</div>
</font></blockquote><div><br>I too, heavily rely on searching the internet for other's experiences in supporting the same software.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<font size="2" face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><br><br>The big issue we have is that everything we want to do in Windows needs some other vendor's software to do. Backup, system recovery, viruses, spyware, driver support and more. It seems that so much chaos is caused by too many vendors in the operating system. Each minor sysadmin task needs a new vendor or software tool that may or may not work with your selection of other sysadmin tools.</div>
</font></blockquote><div><br>I agree! So many things I can simply just _do_ on Linux, on Windows requires this add-on, or that add-on, or this <br>third party software to manage X, Y or Z, which then requires licensing and maintenance and renewals and a buy-in<br>
from upper management. sigh. And next thing you know, it also requires MSSQL and licensing per socket and it's<br>own patch cycle and maintenance routine and it's own rights management interface etc. and so on. Then I'm spending<br>
more time resolving licensing and working out the conversion of U.S. dollars to Canadian monies and assigning rights<br>to multiple users and than I do fixing the initial problem! urgh! Next thing I'm running into a problem with said third party<br>
software because it's now broken or needs to be upgraded to work with the latest service pack or patch, I'm sitting on<br>the support line - because the software is poorly documented and I can't figure out what's going on because the KB is<br>
so sketchy..... If nothing else, it's not a very efficient way to run a business - any business for that matter, in my<br>opinion.<br><br>- Oksana</div></div><br>