SharePoint provides a cost-effective, easy-to-implement solution for organizations interested in enhancing team collaboration, document management, and search functionality and in providing a portal to access corporate resources and intranet/extranet environments. The SharePoint 2010 family (consisting of SharePoint Foundation Service and SharePoint Server 2010) build upon these features and toolsets and introduce a staggering array of new tools and capabilities that undeniably make SharePoint 2010 an enterprise-class solution.

Microsoft System Center Enterprise Suite Unleashed is the first and only definitive real-world guide to the entire Microsoft System Center Enterprise Suite. It brings together tips, tricks, best practices, and lessons learned by top consultants who’ve deployed System Center in some of the world’s largest enterprises and most successful small businesses.

Drawing on years of early adopter and production experience, Chris Amaris, Tyson Kopczynski, and Morimoto cover the entire System Center lifecycle and its components for system configuration, operations management, data protection, virtual machine management, help desk support, change management, asset control, capacity planning, and mobile device management. You’ll learn about individual components and how to integrate them to build automated, exceptionally efficient managed environments.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed covers the planning, design, prototype testing, implementation, migration, administration, and support of a Windows 2008 R2 and Active Directory environment, based on more than three and a half years of early adopter experience in full production environments. This book addresses not only what is new with Windows 2008 R2 compared to previous versions of the Windows Server product, but also what is different and how the similarities and differences affect an organization’s migration to Windows 2008 R2. Chapters are dedicated to the migration process from Windows 2003/2008 to Windows 2008 R2, how to properly use Group Policies in Windows 2008 R2, and tips and tricks on managing and administering a Windows 2008 R2 environment.

This book was written from over 2-1/2 yrs of early adopter experience with Exchange 2010 where CCO consultants were involved with the planning, deployment, migration, and support of dozens of early adopter deployment sites.  This book covers the tips, tricks, best practices, and lessons learned from these experiences.

If you need to deploy, manage, or secure Microsoft SQL Server 2008, this is the complete, fast-paced, task-based reference you’ve been searching for. Authored by a world-class expert on SQL Server in the enterprise, this book goes far beyond the basics, taking on the complex tasks that DBAs need to make the most of Microsoft’s flagship database platform. SQL Server MVP, Ross Mistry presents proven techniques for SQL Server 2008 installation, upgrades, backup/restore, data transfer, indexing, high availability, security, and much more...