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!