Mueller

If you're an IT professional, you're busy enough trying to manage multiple systems and stay proactive with the technology demands of today's fast-moving companies. System Center Operations Manager 2007 is designed to make your life easier, and this comprehensive book is your one-stop gateway to it all. With intermediate to advanced coverage, this book gives you the information you need to deploy, manage, and maintain SCOM 2007, and use it to monitor your network.

Microsoft's new GUI-less Server Core is a command line version of Windows Server 2008 that offers better security, reduced size, and faster access. Inside this comprehensive guide, you'll find everything you need to quickly master this sleek new version. Packed with instructions and practical examples, this book teaches you how to operate in a windowless environment, including using all the commands, creating BAT files, working with scripts, using registry hacks, managing remote systems, and more.

This text is designed as a practical introduction to quantum chemistry. Quantum chemistry is applied to explain and predict molecular spectroscopy and the electronic structure of atoms and molecules. In addition, the text provides a practical guide to using molecular mechanics and electronic structure computations including ab initio, semi-empirical, and density functional methods.

Eventually, it will be time to buy a new PC or put money into an upgrade, but Microsoft Windows XP Power Optimization shows you how to get the most out of your current equipment right now, simply by tuning your Windows setup. These professional techniques range from the basic to the advanced, and they can be used to achieve both targeted improvement and better overall system performance. In every area, the gains can be immense, and the time it takes is minimal.

The Microsoft .NET Framework is here, but COM will be a valuable part of the Windows programmer's armory of technologies for years to come. This book explains how and where COM fits into the new .NET world. It also demonstrates the new technologies that are available in .NET, and it shows how to interoperate between COM and .NET. It's essentially a "one-stop shopping" resource for COM programmers who want to work with .NET. The authors use both theoretical and practical approaches-explaining how the mechanisms work and also providing practical advice plus code to show how to approach interoperability in practice. By the end of this book, readers will understand topics such as the place of COM in the .NET world, what's new in .NET for COM programmers, how to use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET to write "traditional" COM objects, how to use COM objects in .NET code, and how to use .NET objects as COM objects.

Expand your expertise—and teach yourself the fundamentals of the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework 5. If you have previous programming experience but are new to the Entity Framework, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques.