<FONT face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size=2><div><font color="#990099">-----kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org wrote: -----<br></font>>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>I should give you a serious response too.<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.<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.<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.<br><br><br></div></FONT>