Augusto Alvarez

More Free eBooks: Windows Server 2008 Server Core and SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

January 22, 2009 at 10:28 am | Posted in Books, Cool Stuff, Windows Server 2008 | 3 Comments
Tags: Books, Cool Stuff, Reading, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server Core

Two more new and completely free eBooks from MS Press are available for download:

Windows Server 2008 Server Core Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

On this book you’ll find:

• Introduction to Server Core
• Deploying Server Core
• Initial Configurations
• Installing Roles and Features
• Local and Remote Management
• Detailed description of all roles available:
  • Active Directory and DNS
  • Hyper-V
  • DHCP
  • File and Print Services
  • Web Server
  • Others
• Maintaining Server Core

Did you give Windows Server Core a chance already? On the obvious security reasons that you can find to install it; you’ll see other benefits like having a small footprint operating system, licensing price, great performance to take advantage all the features on the mentioned roles, including Hyper-V clustering.

You can start on this book to get a nice introduction and to know all the possibilities with Server Core.

And again, on the devs side (but it is also quite useful for IT guys) you’ll find a SQL Server 2005 book:

SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Step-by-Step

For another free eBook (“Virtualization Solutions”) still available, click here.

Enjoy!

Cheers!