Pro Ubuntu Server Administration teaches you advanced Ubuntu system building. After reading this book, you will be able to manage anything from simple file servers to multiple virtual servers to high–availability clusters. This is the capstone volume of the Apress Ubuntu trilogy that includes Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Third Edition and Beginning Ubuntu Server LTS Administration: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition. You will be able to make Ubuntu technology shine in a Fortune–500 environment and let Ubuntu server become the backbone of your infrastructure. Topics covered include
Performance monitoring and optimization
High–availability clustering
Advanced LDAP integrated networking (more…)

Create queries that make forms and reports useful

Develop forms to access the data you need and make reports that make sense!

If you thought you had to use a spreadsheet program to produce reports and forms, guess what! Access can turn out great-looking forms and reports that actually show what’s going on with your data — if you know how to ask it nicely. This hands-on guide helps you do just that, and it works with all versions of Access. (more…)

Access 2007 Programming by Example with VBA, XML, and ASP shows non-programmers how Access databases can be created, managed, and customized with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) — a powerful programming language built into Access. Hundreds of hands-on examples and projects throughout the book show users how to take charge of their Access databases with programming.

Learn how to: * Write and debug your programming code with the Visual Basic Editor. * Access and manipulate databases with Data Access Objects (DAO) and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). * Use the Data Definition Language (DDL) to enforce (more…)

Hands-on techniques for enabling authentication, authorization, and accounting
Understand the security concepts behind the AAA framework
Learn message formats, communication, and message encryption using the TACACS+ and RADIUS protocols
Configure and troubleshoot AAA on Cisco routers
Understand where to position and install the CSACS in your network
Explore and customize the CSACS interface
Configure CSACS user accounts, user groups, and shared profile components
Add AAA clients and manage network connections (more…)

Access Database Design & Programming takes you behind the details of the Access interface, focusing on the general knowledge necessary for Access power users or developers to create effective database applications. When using software products with graphical interfaces, we frequently focus so much on the interface that we forget about the general concepts that allow us to understand and use the software effectively. In particular, this book focuses on three areas:
Unlike other Access books that take the long, detailed approach to every topic of concern to Access programmers, Access Database Design &Programming instead focuses on the core concepts, enabling programmers to develop solid, effective database applications. This book also serves as a ’second course’ in Access that (more…)

Cisco routers are used widely both on the Internet and in corporate intranets. At the same time, the Cisco Internet Operating System (IOS) has grown to be very large and complex, and Cisco documentation fills several volumes.

“Cisco IOS Access Lists” focuses on a critical aspect of the Cisco IOS–access lists. Access lists are central to the task of securing routers and networks, and administrators cannot implement access control policies or traffic routing policies without them. Access lists are used to specify both the targets of network policies and the policies themselves. They specify packet filtering for firewalls all over the Internet. (more…)

This comprehensive administrator s reference delivers the details you need to successfully deploy, manage, and support Windows Small Business Server 2008. The authors, experts in Microsoft operating systems and server technologies, provide easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics. Delve into system features and capabilities and get hands-on insights for completing everyday tasks, including implementing messaging and collaboration, Internet access, database administration, security, faxing, support for line-of-business applications, and end-to-end network administration. This single volume covers all Small Business Server 2008 (more…)

Learn how to use familiar Microsoft tools to build enterprise solutions that connect to SAP. Written by Microsoft developers with an in-depth knowledge of SAP systems, this book demonstrates how to use Microsoft Visual Studio(r), Expression(r), SharePoint(r) Products and Technologies, BizTalk(r) Server, SQL Server(r), and other Microsoft tools to develop custom enterprise solutions using data and reports from the SAP environment. One of the strengths of the SAP platform is that it adapts to the needs of individual enterprises. The alliance between Microsoft and SAP has opened up many ways for .NET developers to use familiar skills and tools to connect with and customize SAP applications. (more…)

PRACTICAL, EXAMPLE-RICH COVERAGE OF:
Classes, Objects, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Interfaces, Nested Classes
Integrated OOP Case Studies: Time, GradeBook, Employee
Industrial-Strength, 95-Page OOD/UML® 2 ATM Case Study
JavaServer™ Faces, Ajax-Enabled Web Applications, Web Services, Networking
JDBC™, SQL, Java DB, MySQL®
Threads and the Concurrency APIs
I/O, Types, Control Statements, Methods (more…)

This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data. Packed with reusable examples, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 covers all of the data access and web service tools you need, including data binding, the LINQ data querying component, RESTful and SOAP web service calls, and Microsoft’s new ADO.NET Data Services and the ADO.NET Framework. With this book, you will:
Know when and how to use LINQ to JSON, LINQ to XML, and LINQ to Objects
Learn how Silverlight 2 applications bind, pass, read, save, query and present data (more…)