Server

Authoritative guide to TFS 2010 from a dream team of Microsoft insiders and MVPs!

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) has evolved until it is now an essential tool for Microsoft?s Application Lifestyle Management suite of productivity tools, enabling collaboration within and among software development teams. By 2011, TFS will replace Microsoft?s leading source control system, VisualSourceSafe, resulting in an even greater demand for information about it. Professional Team Foundation Server 2010, written by an accomplished team of Microsoft insiders and Microsoft MVPs, provides the thorough, step-by-step instruction you need to use TFS 2010 efficiently?so you can more effectively manage and deliver software products in an enterprise.

• Provides a broad overview of Team Foundation Server for developers, software project managers, testers, business analysts, and others wanting to?learn how to use TFS
• Gives TFS administrators the tools they need to efficiently monitor and manage the TFS environment
• Covers core TFS functions including project management, work item tracking, version control, test case management, build automation, reporting, and more??
• Explains extensibility options and how to write extensions for TFS 2010
• Helps certification candidates prepare for the Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 certification exam (Exam 70-512)

The clear, programmer-to-programmer Wrox style of Professional Team Foundation Server 2010 will soon have you thoroughly up to speed.

Minimize downtime, speed up recovery, and achieve the highest level of availability and reliability for SQL server applications by mastering the concepts of database mirroring,log shipping,clustering, and replication

• Install various SQL Server High Availability options in a step-by-step manner
• A guide to SQL Server High Availability for DBA aspirants, proficient developers and system administrators
• Learn the pre and post installation concepts and common issues you come across while working on SQL Server High Availability
• Tips to enhance performance with SQL Server High Availability
• External references for further study

In Detail

Every business has it's mission critical applications and data. Therefore, it is very important to keep database servers up and running all the time - 24 X 7. There is a need to store and process terabytes of data to cater for business needs, and it is vital to make data highly available.

High availability is all about the site being accessible all the time. High availability solutions minimize the downtime for these mission critical applications.

Microsoft SQL Server is a powerful relational database engine, widely used to store and maintain data in Enterprises of various levels be they small, medium or large.

This book will teach you how best to use these readily-available options and save you time in making your websites highly available.

This Microsoft SQL Server 2008 High Availability book will take you through pre and post installation concepts and common issues you come across while working with SQL Server HA. It will teach you how these various HA solutions can be installed using GUI and the command line. It will also show you how to troubleshoot common issues you may encounter whilst installing or managing the HA option in your environment. It provides references to external links for more advanced learning on the topic.

This book starts with an introductory chapter into the windows domain, domain users and various handshake methods available with Windows server. It also offers information the different authentication methods available with SQL Server - giving you an insight into the importance of security. After you are through with the security aspects, your journey to installing SQL Server HA will start. It will cover the concepts of database mirroring, log shipping, clustering, and replication.

By the end of this book you will be confident enough to take up the challenge to install any of the SQL Server HA options.

A step-by-step guide to SQL Server HA for DBA aspirants, proficient developers and system administrators

What you will learn from this book

• Learn about the prerequisites for installing SQL Server HA
• Understand the windows domain and various handshake methods
• Understand SQL Server's authentication mechanism and SQL Server security
• Configure and manage database mirroring for high availability
• Handle cluster management and backup
• Use log shipping to provide database-level redundancy by automatically backing up, copying, and restoring transaction logs on servers
• Increase scalability, availability, and processing capacity by configuring applications to use peer-to-peer replication
• Monitor the performance of SQL Server HA
• Explore the concepts of SQL Server clustering, different types of SQL cluster

Approach

With clear step-by-step instructions, various real world examples, and plenty of screenshots, this book provides all the support and guidance you will need as you begin to install various SQL Server HA options.

Who this book is written for

If you are an SQL Server developer, or a system administrator, or even a novice DBA, then this book is for you.

It only requires you to have a basic understanding of how SQL Server works to get you through the installation of SQL Server HA.

Minimize downtime, speed up recovery, and achieve the highest level of availability and reliability for SQL server applications by mastering the concepts of database mirroring,log shipping,clustering, and replication

• Install various SQL Server High Availability options in a step-by-step manner
• A guide to SQL Server High Availability for DBA aspirants, proficient developers and system administrators
• Learn the pre and post installation concepts and common issues you come across while working on SQL Server High Availability
• Tips to enhance performance with SQL Server High Availability
• External references for further study

In Detail

Every business has it's mission critical applications and data. Therefore, it is very important to keep database servers up and running all the time - 24 X 7. There is a need to store and process terabytes of data to cater for business needs, and it is vital to make data highly available.

High availability is all about the site being accessible all the time. High availability solutions minimize the downtime for these mission critical applications.

Microsoft SQL Server is a powerful relational database engine, widely used to store and maintain data in Enterprises of various levels be they small, medium or large.

This book will teach you how best to use these readily-available options and save you time in making your websites highly available.

This Microsoft SQL Server 2008 High Availability book will take you through pre and post installation concepts and common issues you come across while working with SQL Server HA. It will teach you how these various HA solutions can be installed using GUI and the command line. It will also show you how to troubleshoot common issues you may encounter whilst installing or managing the HA option in your environment. It provides references to external links for more advanced learning on the topic.

This book starts with an introductory chapter into the windows domain, domain users and various handshake methods available with Windows server. It also offers information the different authentication methods available with SQL Server - giving you an insight into the importance of security. After you are through with the security aspects, your journey to installing SQL Server HA will start. It will cover the concepts of database mirroring, log shipping, clustering, and replication.

By the end of this book you will be confident enough to take up the challenge to install any of the SQL Server HA options.

A step-by-step guide to SQL Server HA for DBA aspirants, proficient developers and system administrators

What you will learn from this book

• Learn about the prerequisites for installing SQL Server HA
• Understand the windows domain and various handshake methods
• Understand SQL Server's authentication mechanism and SQL Server security
• Configure and manage database mirroring for high availability
• Handle cluster management and backup
• Use log shipping to provide database-level redundancy by automatically backing up, copying, and restoring transaction logs on servers
• Increase scalability, availability, and processing capacity by configuring applications to use peer-to-peer replication
• Monitor the performance of SQL Server HA
• Explore the concepts of SQL Server clustering, different types of SQL cluster

Approach

With clear step-by-step instructions, various real world examples, and plenty of screenshots, this book provides all the support and guidance you will need as you begin to install various SQL Server HA options.

Who this book is written for

If you are an SQL Server developer, or a system administrator, or even a novice DBA, then this book is for you.

It only requires you to have a basic understanding of how SQL Server works to get you through the installation of SQL Server HA.

DB2 pureXML Cookbook

Master the Power of the IBM Hybrid Data Server

Hands-On Solutions and Best Practices for Developing and Managing XML Database Applications with DB2

More and more database developers and DBAs are being asked to develop applications and manage databases that involve XML data. Many are utilizing the highly praised DB2 pureXML technology from IBM. In the DB2 pureXML Cookbook, two leading experts from IBM offer the practical solutions and proven code samples that database professionals need to build better XML solutions faster. Organized by task, this book is packed with more than 700 easy-to-adapt “recipe-style” examples covering the entire application lifecycle–from planning and design through coding, optimization, and troubleshooting. This extraordinary library of recipes includes more than 250 XQuery and SQL/XML queries. With the authors’ hands-on guidance, you’ll learn how to combine pureXML “ingredients” to efficiently perform virtually any XML data management task, from the simplest to the most advanced.

Coverage includes

• pureXML in DB2 9 for z/OS and DB2 9.1, 9.5, and 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
• Best practices for designing XML data, applications, and storage objects Importing, exporting, loading, replicating, and federating XML data
• Querying XML data, from start to finish: XPath and XQuery data model and languages, SQL/XML, stored procedures, UDFs, and much more
• Avoiding common errors and inefficient XML queries
• Converting relational data to XML and vice versa
• Updating and transforming XML documents
• Defining and working with XML indexes
• Monitoring and optimizing the performance of XML queries and other operations
• Using XML Schemas to constrain and validate XML documents
• XML application development–including code samples for Java, .NET, C, COBOL,PL/1, PHP, and Perl

Create a Highly Available Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Environment

Written by the technical director for SQL Server Magazine, this expert guide shows you how to implement clustering and database mirroring in SQL Server 2008. Learn proven techniques for ensuring zero database loss, avoiding system downtime, and providing instant data backups. Filled with detailed instructions, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 High Availability with Clustering & Database Mirroring takes you from planning to management of a robust high availability solution.

• Configure Windows Failover Clustering
• Set up the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator on a two node failover cluster
• Install SQL Server 2008 on your cluster
• Handle cluster management and backup
• Configure and manage database mirroring for high availability
• Implement Hyper-V virtualization and Live Migration
• Manage a SQL Server virtual machine

Michael Otey is the technical director for SQL Server Magazine and Windows IT Pro and the bestselling author of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer's Guide, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 New Features, and several other books. He is president of TECA, Inc., a software development and consulting company.

In keeping with past trends, full migration to this latest Microsoft Server Operating System will begin in earnest 12 months after its release, in mid-to-late 2004. This book will hit the market just as large enterprises begin the process of moving from Windows 2000 Server to Windows Server 2003. The title says everything you need to know about this book. No other book on the market combines this breadth and depth of coverage with the kind of product expertise and quality standard expected from Syngress. Every aspect of Planning, Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting a Windows Server 2003 network is distilled and documented, with plenty of examples and illustrations. An unlike its competition, this is a book that was written from the ground up for Windows Server 2003.

* Everything a System Administrator will ever need to know about running a Windows Server 2003 network.

* This is the book that meets the needs of today's Windows Server 2003 professional.

* Every aspect of Planning, Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting a Windows Server 2003 network is distilled and documented, with plenty of examples and illustrations.

The complete, authoritative guide to protecting your Windows 2000 Network
"Essential reading for your IT security organization." -Deena Joyce, Director of Information Technology and Network Security, Casino Magic
Pick up a newspaper or watch the evening news and you will find a major news story involving a breech of network security. Windows 2000, as the premier network platform, has many important security features but they are difficult to configure and manage. Hack Proofing Windows 2000 Server has totally up-to-date coverage of Service Pack 2 (SP2), Kerberos and Public Key Infrastructure and also addresses newer topics such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), remote access and web site security. The book also has complete coverage of Internet Information Server (IIS) release 5.

A great addition to the bestselling "Hack Proofing..." series
Windows 2000 sales have surpassed those of Windows NT
Critical topic. The security of an organization's data and communications is crucial to its survival and these topics are notoriously difficult to grasp
Unrivalled web support at www.solutions@syngress.com

The first book published on deploying Voice Over IP (VoIP) products from Nortel Networks, the largest supplier of voice products in the world.

This book begins with a discussion of the current protocols used for transmitting converged data over IP as well as an overview of Nortel's hardware and software solutions for converged networks. In this section, readers will learn how H.323 allows dissimilar communication devices to communicate with each other, and how SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is used to establish, modify, and terminate multimedia sessions including VOIP telephone calls. This section next introduces the reader to the Multimedia Concentration Server 5100, and Nortel's entire suite of Multimedia Communications Portfolio (MCP) products. The remaining chapters of the book teach the reader how to design, install, configure, and troubleshoot the entire Nortel product line.

· If you are tasked with designing, installing, configuring, and troubleshooting a converged network built with Nortel's Multimedia Concentration Server 5100, and Multimedia Communications Portfolio (MCP) products, then this is the only book you need.

· It shows how you'll be able to design, build, secure, and maintaining a cutting-edge converged network to satisfy all of your business requirements

· Also covers how to secure your entire multimedia network from malicious attacks

Adopt Nginx for your web applications to make the most of your infrastructure and serve pages faster than ever

• Get started with Nginx to serve websites faster and safer
• Learn to configure your servers and virtual hosts efficiently
• Set up Nginx to work with PHP and other applications via FastCGI
• Explore possible interactions between Nginx and Apache to get the best of both worlds
• A step-by-step guide to switching from Apache to Nginx
• Complete configuration directive and module reference

In Detail

Nginx is a lightweight HTTP server designed for high-traffic websites, with network scalability as primary objective. With the advent of high-speed Internet access, short loading times and fast transfer rates have become a necessity. This free open-source solution will either serve as full replacement of other software such as Apache, or stand in front of your existing infrastructure to improve its overall speed. However, migrating to Nginx requires some guidance.

This book serves as a detailed guide to setting up Nginx in different production situations: as standalone server, as reverse proxy, interacting with applications via FastCGI, and more. In addition, the complete directive reference will be your best friend at all stages of the configuration and maintenance processes

This book is the perfect companion for both Nginx beginners and experienced administrators. For the former, it will take you through the complete process of setting up this lightweight HTTP server on your system and configuring its various modules to get it to do exactly what you need, in a fast and secure way. For the latter, it provides different angles of approach that can help you make the most of your current infrastructure. As the book progresses, it provides a complete reference to all the modules and directives of Nginx. It will explain how to replace your existing server with Nginx or configure Nginx to work as a frontend for your existing server.

By the end of this book, you will be geared up to implement Nginx as a web server that will boost the speed of all your web applications.

A handy guide to setting up Nginx as a standalone web server or as a reverse proxy, with complete directive and module references

What you will learn from this book

• Download and build Nginx from source along with its dependencies
• Learn the basics of Nginx configuration: syntax, structure, and semantics
• Create virtual host configurations effortlessly
• Discover how to enable, configure, and use all first-party modules
• Establish advanced rewrite rules with the Nginx Rewrite module
• Set up Nginx to work with PHP, Python, and more via FastCGI
• Configure Nginx to work as frontend for your existing HTTP server
• Complete the process of replacing Apache by Nginx
• Follow three practical examples on how to port your Apache rewrite rules
• Find your way through the configuration with the complete detailed directive reference
• Troubleshooting: know where to start looking if something goes wrong

Approach

The book includes detailed instructions for each of the processes it describes: downloading and installing the application, configuring and using modules, and much more. It provides a step-by-step tutorial to replace your existing web server with Nginx. With commented configuration sections and in-depth module descriptions, you will be able to make the most of the performance potential offered by Nginx.

Who this book is written for

By covering both early setup stages and advanced topics, this book will suit web administrators interested in solutions to optimize their infrastructure, whether they are looking into replacing existing web server software or integrating a new tool cooperating with applications already up and running. If you, your visitors, and your operating system have been disappointed by Apache, this book is exactly what you need.

Pure JSP gives a very concise conceptual overview of the JavaServer Pages technology and its related components. Once you have a firm foundation with the JSP technology, related topics such as JavaBeans, JDBC and Servlets are covered at a very high level. The book moves on to explain a large number of JSP techniques, which were determined by studying problems faced by JSP users in the professional world. The final section covers the more technical aspects of the JSP technology. Topics include related API's, server configuration, and charts and diagrams related to developing JSP applications.