Windows Workflow Foundation is a ground-breaking addition to the core of the .NET Framework that allows you to orchestrate human and system interactions as a series of workflows that can be easily mapped, analyzed, adjusted, and implemented.

As business problems become more complex, the need for a workflow-based solution has never been more evident. WF provides a simple and consistent way to model and implement complex problems. As a developer, you focus on developing the business logic for individual workflow tasks. The runtime handles the execution of those tasks after they have been composed into a workflow.

Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0 provides you with the skills you need to incorporate WF in your applications. This book gets you up to speed with Windows Workflow Foundation quickly and comprehensively. The practical aspects of using WF are covered in a lively tutorial style with each workflow concept illustrated in C#. This book also includes detailed coverage of how to customize your workflows and access them in a variety of ways and situations so you can maximize the advantages of this technology.

 This book brings together all the insights, knowledge, and step-by-step guidance you need to deliver robust, scalable, and stable server-based computing solutions with Microsoft Windows Terminal Services and Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0.

This book best serves the Windows administrator who wants to analyze, plan, test, and implement a server-based computing solution running Windows Terminal Services with or without MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0. It focuses on the entire project life cycle, from properly assessing the needs of an organization and planning all aspects of the deployment (not just how to build a Terminal Server) right through to the actual implementation and support. The book is full of implementation examples, from server security to group policy creation and from patch management to client deployment. While I try to encompass all major aspects of a Terminal Server implementation, there are some areas where I provide only tertiary coverage and/or assume that you're already familiar with (or are readily able to learn) that area.

Windows Server 2003 is more an update of Windows 2000 than a new operating system. This latest version of the base Windows NT technology now expands to support Microsoft's .NET Framework and new security initiatives. This book reflects these changes by expanding our previous book, The Ultimate Windows 2000 System Administrator's Guide. Mindful that Windows 2000 will continue to be deployed, this book not only reflects the new features of Windows Server 2003 but also provides continued support for Windows 2000 administrators.

This book is written to help you succeed in the administration of the Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server family. Much of the information it provides is also applicable to the desktop Professional versions of the software. Although the use and management of client software is incorporated, the server side is clearly our primary focus. In this preface we provide a framework for the primary topics covered, define the target audience, and describe how to use this book.

This is the definitive resource for every network administrator, consultant, and architect who needs to maximize availability, scalability, and performance in Windows server environments.

This is the book that caters to your needs. It is about achieving service level and keeping systems up 24/7 with the Windows Server 2003 platform. This book provides a clear and concise roadmap for how to go about using Microsoft Server 2003, (in some cases) with third-party add-ons, for scalability, uptime, performance, and managementand for how to avoid trouble at the same time.

Many administrators and engineers find it hard to make decisions about what they need to do. They hear that clustering and using load balancing is a black artextremely difficult and prone to disaster. Up until today, their only resources for architecting a high availability solution has been rare and expensive consultants and overzealous consulting services engineers, particularly from hardware vendors. If you are turned to Microsoft technology to achieve your SLA, this book will be the foundation to turn to, to bring it all together.

Fans of Upgrading and Repairing PCs, your call has been answered. Scott Mueller, author of the best-selling Upgrading and Repairing PCs, is now bringing you an equally in-depth guide to Windows troubleshooting. Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows explains how Windows works and how to fix it when things go wrong. This comprehensive resource includes information on:

• Installation
• Managing security
• Optimizing performance
• Recovering data
• Configuring settings and the registry
• Protecting Windows from viruses and spyware

Scott also includes references to helpful tools and scripting commands for maximum system controls. A DVD is included that provides you with additional resources and unique how-to video that brings Scott right to you. Find out how to make Windows work with you and not against you with Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows.

This book is one in a new tutorial series from Wiley Publishing created for independent learners, students, and teachers. Whether you are learning (or teaching) in a classroom setting or gaining new skills while you explore Windows Vista for fun, this book is for you. As rigorous and replete as any college course or seminar, Windows Vista: The L Line offers instruction for developing your Windows skill set — specifically, the skills that everyone needs, from casual Windows users to company tech support gurus.

As do all titles in The L Line: The Express Line to Learning series, this book’s design embraces the metaphor of learning as a journey — a trip on a railway system — with navigational tools and real-world stops along the way. The destination, of course, is mastery of Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista.

This book takes you well beyond Vista’s extensive help messages and intuitive cascading forms of option screens, windows, panes and pop-ups. Although styled as a classroom-in-a-book, this work was also prepared with a broader range of Windows users in mind. Whether you are in or outside a classroom, you can look up any topic or subtopic in the index, turn to the relevant section, and jump right into the steps to accomplish the needed task. The tips you’ll find throughout the book will help you move forward even faster. And the practice exercises and exam questions will reinforce your learning. Several-hundred screen captures that plainly show what words cannot also help guide you all along the way.

If you like your answers quick and your information up-to-date, look no further. With this concise, superbly organized reference, you can easily find what you need to know about Vista's new Aero Glass interface, managing your files and folders, cool new networking capabilities, Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Mail, speech recognition, security, entertainment features, and much more.

Readers will save themselves time and energy by using this handy, A-to-Z reference to quickly find answers regarding the exciting new release of Windows Vista. This book covers navigating the desktop, launching programs, adding programs, removing programs, creating files, copying files and folders, and deleting files and folders. Accessible organization of topics also shows readers how to create shortcuts, connect to the Internet, search the Web, add favorites, use the new file management system, and more.

Windows CardSpace empowers organizations to prevent identity theft and systematically address a broad spectrum of security and privacy challenges. Understanding Windows CardSpaceis the first insider’s guide to Windows CardSpace and the broader topic of identity management for technical and business professionals. Drawing on the authors’ unparalleled experience earned by working with the CardSpace product team and by implementing state-of-the-art CardSpace-based systems at leading enterprises, it offers unprecedented insight into the realities of identity management: from planning and design through deployment.

Part I introduces the fundamental concepts of user-centered identity management, explains the context in which Windows CardSpace operates, and reviews the problems CardSpace aims to solve. Next, the authors walk through CardSpace from a technical standpoint, describing its technologies, elements, artifacts, operations and development practices, and usage scenarios. Finally, they carefully review the design and business considerations associated with architecting solutions based on CardSpace or any other user-centered identity management

system. Coverage includes

• The limitations of current approaches to authentication and identity management
• Detailed information on advanced Web services
• The Identity Metasystem, the laws of identity, and the ideal authentication system
• Windows CardSpace: What it is, how it works, and how developers and managers can use it in their organizations
• CardSpace technology: user experience, Information Cards, private desktops, and integration with .NET 3.5 and Windows Vista
• CardSpace implementation: from HTML integration through federation, Web services integration, and beyond
• Adding personal card support to a website: a detailed, scenario-based explanation
• Choosing or becoming an identity provider: opportunities, business impacts, operational issues, and pitfalls to avoid
• Using CardSpace to leverage trust relationships and overcome phishing

Tired of clawing your way through computer books that start at the beginning of recorded history just to find one tiny nugget of information you need? Tired of wrenching your back to pull that massive Windows tome off your bookshelf? Tired of wishing you could find a simple answer to what should be a simple problem? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then 100 Things You Need to Know about MicrosoftA (R) Windows VistaaA A is just the book you've been looking for. Chock full of timesaving tips, heady solutions, and expert know-how, this book doesn't break the bank nor does it require a Bowflex body to hoist it around. Inside you'll find step-by-step help for the 100 things every Windows user needs to know when making the big switch between Windows XP and Vista. Even if you're brand new to Windows (meaning Vista is your first-ever operating system), you'll find the advice here indispensable. In this book, we assume, for instance, that you really don't give a hoot about what TCP/IP is. We're betting you just want to get your Internet connection up and running, and leave the techy muck to the propeller heads.

Whether you're a system administrator responsible for hundreds of Windows clients, or a just a roomful of computers, this book will help you install, configure, and maintain Microsoft's newest OS. Written in jargon-free English that puts concepts in proper context, the book gives you a better understanding of Vista's innovations and capabilities, teaches you how to leverage Vista to increase worker productivity, and demonstrates how the system can best protect sensitive data.

Best of all, Windows Vista Administration: The Definitive Guide is a problem-solving reference that lets you quickly access the solutions you need, and helps you unlock certain features to improve system performance — without forcing you to page through the entire book.