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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Active Directory Cookbook, 2nd edition
If you're among those looking for practical hands-on support, help is here with Active Directory Cookbook, Second Edition, a unique problem-solving guide that offers quick answers for Active Directory and updated for Window Server 2003 SP1 and R2 versions. This best selling book provides solutions to over 300 problems commonly encountered when deploying, administering, and automating Active Directory to manage users in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.

Acess Hacks
With this valuable guide, experienced users of Microsoft Access can finally take their database skills to the next level. Access Hacks offers direct, hands-on tips and tools that help relieve the frustrations of users struggling to master the program's various complexities. Also ideal for beginners looking to grasp the fundamentals of this popular database management program.

Cleaning windows XP for dummies 2004
* This wide-ranging guide helps ordinary users fight back against Windows slowdowns, glitches, and annoyances
* Windows is the world’s dominant desktop operating system, with 93.8 percent of the market as of 2002
* Packed with savvy tips for decluttering a system, speeding up access to programs and data, customizing the interface, rooting out resource hogs, tuning up e-mail and Web browser performance, protecting against viruses, and more
* Focuses on Windows XP and covers the new Service Pack 2, but many techniques are applicable to older Windows versions

Excel Hacks
In this addition to the 'Hacks' series we get to look at '100 industrial-strength tips and tools' for Microsoft's Excel. As with the other books in the series, such as Google Hacks or Spidering Hacks, the individual items in the book range from the interesting to the 'so-what' to the brilliant.

Organised into eight chapters, which start with 'reducing workbook and worksheet frustration' and finish with 'connecting Excel to the outside world', by way of 'hacking Excel's built-in features', 'naming hacks', 'hacking pivot tables', 'charting hacks', 'hacking formulas and functions' and 'macro hacks'. As you would expect from that list, most aspects of using Excel get at least some coverage.

Windows Server Hacks
The tools, or hacks in this book reveal techniques that go well beyond basic management tasks found in most handbooks. Hacks range from those that deal with general administration to more esoteric hacks in the areas of network deployment, patch management, performance, security, and backup and recovery. No matter which Windows Server you use--NT, IIS, 2000, or 2003--Windows Server Hacks will put the knowledge and expertise of veteran system administrators to work for you.

Windows XP Hacks
With the "Hacks" series of books, the people at O'Reilly wanted to provide something that the was missing in the world of computer books. I'm talking about a collection of practical hacks (could also be called tips) that show the reader how to do something new or accomplish a task quicker. This is one of those books that can be read from cover to cover or you can just read specific parts as you need them.

This time I'm taking a look at some cool things that can be accomplished in Windows XP, probably the most popular operating system for home users at the moment.

Word Hacks
The book includes plenty of predictable but potentially highly useful power-user hacks for tweaking Word’s user interface, creating custom views of documents, managing bullets and numbering and styles, and working with custom dictionaries. It also includes an interesting administrative hack for reporting and reviewing Word’s options settings, and it even discusses a way to use Word as a Windows backup utility.

Some of the hacks make clever use of RTF and XML formats to accomplish tasks that are difficult or impossible to accomplish in any other way, such as stripping unneeded list templates and direct formatting from Word documents. Others demonstrate how to use Python, Perl, Ruby, and Google with Word, and how to create PDF files from Word without Adobe Acrobat.

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