<P style="MARGIN: 0px">This is the most comprehensive and realistic guide to Windows Server 2012 planning, design, prototyping, implementation, migration, administration, and support. Extensively updated, it contains unsurpassed independent and objective coverage of Windows Server 2012’s key innovations, including improved virtualization components, enhanced security tools, new web and management resources, and Windows 8 integration.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <I>Windows Server 2012 Unleashed </I>reflects the authors’ extraordinary experience implementing Windows Server 2012 in large-scale environments since its earliest alpha releases, reaching back more than two years prior to its official launch. Microsoft MVP Rand Morimoto and his colleagues fully address every aspect of deploying and operating Windows Server 2012, including Active Directory, networking and core application services, security, migration from Windows Server 2003/2008, administration, fault tolerance, optimization, troubleshooting, and much more.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Valuable for Windows professionals at <I>all </I>skill levels, this book will be especially indispensable for intermediate-to-advanced level professionals seeking expert, in-depth solutions. Every chapter contains tips, tricks, best practices, and lessons learned from actual deployments: practical information for using Windows Server 2012 to solve real business problems.</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> Plan and migrate from Windows Server 2003 and 2008</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> Leverage powerful capabilities that are truly new in Windows Server 2012</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> Install Windows Server 2012 and the GUI-less Windows Server Core</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> Upgrade to Windows Server 2012 Active Directory</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> Utilize advanced AD capabilities including federated forests and identity management</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> Plan and deploy network services, from DNS and DHCP to IPv6, IPAM, and IIS</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> Protect systems and data with server-level security, transport-level security, and security policies</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> Deliver true end-to-end secured anytime/anywhere access to remote/mobile clients</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> Efficiently configure and manage users, sites, OUs, domains, and for­ests through Server Manager console</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> Create more fault-tolerant environ­ments with DFS, clustering, and Network Load Balancing</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> Leverage major Hyper-V virtualization improvements in availability, redun­dancy, and guest support</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> Manage Active Directory more efficiently with Active Directory Administrative Center, Best Practice Analyzer, and PowerShell scripts</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> Systematically tune, optimize, debug, and troubleshoot Windows Server 2012</DIV> </LI> </UL>