Best Email Administration
Examine the pitfalls that organizations fall into when adopting the new generation of infrastructure technologies Understand the capabilities and service models of dynamic infrastructure platforms Learn about tools that provide, provision, and configure core infrastructure resources Explore services and tools for managing a dynamic infrastructure Learn specific patterns and practices for provisioning servers, building server templates, and updating running servers. Kief Morris has been designing, building, and running automated IT server infrastructure for nearly twenty years, having started out with shell scripts and Perl, moving on to CFengine, Puppet, Chef, and Ansible among other technologies as they’ve emerged.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"To give an example, the author discusses Code Reviews where he says: "All too often, code reviewing becomes a wasteful activity that doesn't lead to improvements actually being made to code. The author often states opinions like this, but does not back them up by anything but his opinion. Parts in which the author relied on personal experiences and generalizations were not as good."
"This is well-written and provides a good overview of some of the concepts (benefits and high level methods) of defining your infrastructure in text files, but honestly I didn't get anything out of this book."
"After the first few introductory chapters that lay down the basic definitions and context, the author goes on to describe patterns and best practices for building server templates, managing configuration and changes to configuration, as well as the pitfalls you might encounter when you move from a traditional system administration mentality to dynamic, automated "infrastructure as code" perspective. If you're building / managing a dynamic and flexible information system infrastructure in the cloud or on premise, regardless of your particular tool choice for automation, you'll find yourself facing the challenges described in this book, and therefore the outlined patterns will apply to your problems to a great extent."
Just in time, Harold meets a coach--a leading expert on email efficiency and etiquette with a simple system that helps Harold eliminate needless emails, write better messages, and file and find information in a flash. This book delivers simple and practical email management protocols.” —Paul Roithmayr, Director, Organization Development & Training, 20th Century Fox Film Corporation “A clever way to add fifteen days to your year.” —Joe DiDonato, President, ESource Corporation “A powerful new strategy for email efficiency and etiquette.” —Lamonte Thomas, Vice President of Sales and Customer Relations, Cigna “These email practices will change the way you work.” —Matt Koch, Director, Productivity & Knowledge Management, Capital One “A home run! I’m having my whole team read it.” —Mike Gugerty, Scientist, Matzinger-Keegan Inc. “Put an end to needless emails and missing files.” —Sam Biegelsen, Business Development Executive, Jeppesen, a Boeing Company “Easy to implement and powerful in results.” —Robert Cross, Assistant Professor of Management, University of Virginia and author of The Hidden Power of Social Networks “Quick, easy, and fun to read—an effective antidote to the bulging, time- draining e-mailbox.” —Carol Metzker, coauthor of Appreciative Intelligence “Using the techniques outlined in this book, we achieved significant productivity improvements, including a reduction of time spent on email averaging eight days per year per colleague.” —Nic Oatridge, Global Head of IT, Fortune 200 Pharmaceutical Company “How is it possible that no one has written this book until now?
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I've become a believer in the Hamster Revolution and now recognize this work as one of the truly great business books of our time. In my first go-around I immediately felt overly critical due to what I perceived as a self-serving forward by Ken Blanchard. I have nothing against Blanchard and recognize him as an outstanding thinker and corporate trainer; I just don't like it when people writing a forward use it as an opportunity to toot their own horn. Further, the use of the hamster character turned out to be an ingenious technique because it allowed the authors to teach their lessons in story format. The more I applied the lessons, the more apparent it became that the authors, Mike Song, Vicki Halsey and Tim Burress have a fine 129-page masterpiece here. Skipping straight to the last strategy, the authors provide a powerful tool called COTA. The idea of "revolution" is that those of us using the design and principles will spread the word and create major change. I wholeheartedly recommend the CD because it flows smoothly and is soothing to the listener."
"Kind of goofy with the story being about a talking hamster and all."
""How to meet less and get more done" (the book's sub-title) is all it took for me to jump in. If not, why would you ask someone to lead a meeting--using up valuable and limited staff time and payroll--who has never been trained in meeting facilitation? To drive the point home, ask these questions at your next staff meeting: 1) How much training have you had on leading or attending meetings? 2) What book(s) have you read that have made you a better meeting facilitator or attender?"
"Good Read ... Would Recommend It."
"Only in the virtual world of email are people so rude as to expect the right to interrupt your life with their questions, comments and inane chatter. With this little book and "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" you should be set to tackle even the most demanding of lifestyles!"
"If everyone read the book, email would not be the time trap it is now."
"A few tidbits of useful info, but 90% of the book is a writer trying to fill space."
Shares invaluable advice for taking advantage of the newest version of the most popular e-mail and productivity tool: Outlook 2010 Reveals little-known tips and tricks of underused features of Microsoft Outlook Presents information in the beloved fun and friendly For Dummies style, showing you how to manage your e-mail, share your calendar, use RSS support, access data, and more Describes how to manage your day by filtering junk e-mail, using the To-Do bar, taking advantage of anti-phishing capabilities, and much more. Learn the basics find out how to use Outlook for routine tasks such as handling messages and notes Make your work more efficient track your e-mail, contacts, appointments, and everything else you need to keep organized Tie your Microsoft tasks together learn how to take advantage of Outlook's special relationship with Office, Internet Explorer ® , and Windows ® Go beyond the basics customize Outlook and set up Internet e-mail accounts Get rid of spam discover how to filter e-mail to eliminate spam and get the most out of Outlook's security features Coordinate with others share schedule and task information with other people, synchronize information with them, and even assign tasks.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I love Outlook needed it for an upgraded version at work."
"This is a good basic reference for Outlook."
"Product arrived in the time promised as was exactly as the description stated."
"The book is Great!"
"I have been using Outlook for years and know quite a lot about it, but I have one of my accounts that is deleting all messages after the day they post."
"I found that this book needs to be read with a magnifying glass."
Best TCP-IP
The book's visual approach makes it easy for students to learn about and understand the concepts involved in this rapidly developing field. Behrouz A. Forouzan a Professor at DeAnza College, where they are involved in the development of courses for Computer Information Systems.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Used this book for a class."
"Rented this book."
"Just as advertised and shipped quickly!"
"Despite some grammatical flaws, the book provides good information for the reader who wants to know about the "nitty-gritty" details of networking."
"Exactly what I wanted and expected, and the product got to my house quickly."
"In order to really learn and understand computer networks this book should accompany other acceptable books as well."
"This book has some good explanations of current networking technology."
"Good textbook, this was the text for TCP/IP class at University of Denver."
Best Windows Administration
Practice exams download for both exam 901 and 902 with hundreds of accurate practice exam questions More than an hour of online video training featuring Mike Meyers Online performance-based simulations that prepare you for the performance-based exam questions A link to Mike's favorite PC tools A PDF copy of the book. He is author of Mike Meyers’ A+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting PCs and Mike Meyers’ Network+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting Networks .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My method of study i chose to read this textbook cover to cover, taking all practice tests at the end of each chapter, along with the included practice exams on the disc. In addition to this text i went further to find online practice exams and Professor Messer videos on Youtube as free self studying material. The book covered the objectives and even went beyond which is why this makes a great on-the-job reference."
"Most importantly, I was looking for a book that could not only keep me engaged yet also provide the necessary educational materials. Presently I'm over a hundred or so pages in (the book is Bible thick) and have purposely slowed myself down at times to ensure lesson absorption but honestly could read this book like it was a spellbinding work of fanciful fiction. It really helps to have an actual, honest interest in the subject matter and there are times where you'll want access to several different operating systems."
"Just started, but it has been an easy to follow book so far."
"It's alright, the language the guy uses isn't 100% professional but VERY relatable with the youth."
"Will always keep current copies of Mike Meyers books in my library."
"Gives a CD in order for you to have a digital copy of the book as well as other helpful quizzes....I do not have a CD drive on my laptop, had to go out of my way to find someone with a CD drive just to place it on a thumb drive."
"this is an IT field essential."
"Came it great condition, book is a bible but it very entertaining and it's enjoyable."
Best Linux & UNIX Administration
Practice exams download for both exam 901 and 902 with hundreds of accurate practice exam questions More than an hour of online video training featuring Mike Meyers Online performance-based simulations that prepare you for the performance-based exam questions A link to Mike's favorite PC tools A PDF copy of the book. He is author of Mike Meyers’ A+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting PCs and Mike Meyers’ Network+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting Networks .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My method of study i chose to read this textbook cover to cover, taking all practice tests at the end of each chapter, along with the included practice exams on the disc. In addition to this text i went further to find online practice exams and Professor Messer videos on Youtube as free self studying material. The book covered the objectives and even went beyond which is why this makes a great on-the-job reference."
"Most importantly, I was looking for a book that could not only keep me engaged yet also provide the necessary educational materials. Presently I'm over a hundred or so pages in (the book is Bible thick) and have purposely slowed myself down at times to ensure lesson absorption but honestly could read this book like it was a spellbinding work of fanciful fiction. It really helps to have an actual, honest interest in the subject matter and there are times where you'll want access to several different operating systems."
"Just started, but it has been an easy to follow book so far."
"It's alright, the language the guy uses isn't 100% professional but VERY relatable with the youth."
"Will always keep current copies of Mike Meyers books in my library."
"Gives a CD in order for you to have a digital copy of the book as well as other helpful quizzes....I do not have a CD drive on my laptop, had to go out of my way to find someone with a CD drive just to place it on a thumb drive."
"this is an IT field essential."
"Came it great condition, book is a bible but it very entertaining and it's enjoyable."
Best Network Storage & Retrieval Administration
Jason speaks in simple English and uses the metaphor of The Seven Steps to SEO Fitness to explain to you how to 'get SEO fit.'. Goals : Define Your SEO Goals Keywords : Identify Winnable, High Value SEO Keywords On Page SEO : Optimize Your Website to 'Speak Google' via Page Tabs, your home page, and structural elements Content Marketing : Learn to produce content that pleases Google and your customers Off Page SEO : Build links, leverage social media, and go local. Check out the other 2018 SEO Books on Amazon - SEO For Dummies , SEO for Growth , SEO Book , SEO Like I'm 5 etc., - they're great, they're good, but they don't include powerful step-by-step worksheets, links to online videos, and the free SEO Toolbook with hundreds of free tools for search engine optimization 2018. Listed on many SEO book lists as one of the best books SEO books of 2018 as well as a best SEO book for beginners. Author Jason McDonald has been active on the Internet since 1994 and has taught SEO, AdWords, and Social Media since 2009 – online, at Stanford University Continuing Studies, at both AcademyX and the Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco, at workshops, and in corporate trainings across these United States.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"SEO Fitness Workbook: 2017 Edition: The Seven Steps to Search Engine Optimization Success on Google. I'm glad I've got this handy SEO Book, it's my go-to guide for reference on SEO best practices."
"Whether you are a marketing professional, web developer, content writer or a business owner wanting to understand SEO, this is a great book to include in your library of knowledge!"
"I found the book a bit repetitious at times, and would prefer a shorter version, Still I won't take a star off."
"My goal is to be a small business owner and reducing the SEO to seven understandable steps relieves a small part of the business but also an important one."
"Off page SEO and On page SEO along with all of the other information to tie everything together."
"I haven't yet taken the time to do the exercises, because I wanted to get an overview, but I am looking forward to doing them.We are a highly non technical company populated by older folks who come from textile manufacturing and marketing."
"I write content for blogs and websites, so instead of Keeping Up with the Joneses, I have to Keep Up with the Search Engines. I could just throw up my hands in frustration and surrender. Good thing they are digital, because as often as I refer back to them, I'd wear the paper versions out in short order. The Kindle price was $9.99....imagine having a truly expert SEO person on hand 24/7 to answer questions, demonstrate SEO websites that return meaningful analysis of your content and SEO efforts, and provide easy-to-follow, step-by-step How To's on every aspect of SEO excellence. His sense of humor makes learning the oft times tedious material a load of fun."
Best Network Disaster & Recovery Administration
Practice exams download for both exam 901 and 902 with hundreds of accurate practice exam questions More than an hour of online video training featuring Mike Meyers Online performance-based simulations that prepare you for the performance-based exam questions A link to Mike's favorite PC tools A PDF copy of the book. He is author of Mike Meyers’ A+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting PCs and Mike Meyers’ Network+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting Networks .
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"My method of study i chose to read this textbook cover to cover, taking all practice tests at the end of each chapter, along with the included practice exams on the disc. In addition to this text i went further to find online practice exams and Professor Messer videos on Youtube as free self studying material. The book covered the objectives and even went beyond which is why this makes a great on-the-job reference."
"Most importantly, I was looking for a book that could not only keep me engaged yet also provide the necessary educational materials. Presently I'm over a hundred or so pages in (the book is Bible thick) and have purposely slowed myself down at times to ensure lesson absorption but honestly could read this book like it was a spellbinding work of fanciful fiction. It really helps to have an actual, honest interest in the subject matter and there are times where you'll want access to several different operating systems."
"the author does not drift off to complicated things when starting to learn the basics."
"While this was required material for my IT class, the writing is easy to follow and the information is clear."
"It is packed with everything I need to know for passing the CompTIA A+ exam, and as a matter fact I almost gave it four stars because it is so packed it is too heavy to hold up when I’m laying down reading it!"
"Great book when it comes to questions in each."
"Good book lots and lots of info for CompTIA A+ certification More detailed than Dummies book."
"Just started, but it has been an easy to follow book so far."