Issue #103
July 2008

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NetIQ

: : New eBook:
The Shortcut Guide to IT Service Management and Automation

: : New Series:
SOA and Mainframe Applications

: : New Series:
Optimizing Your Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Investment

: : Complete eBook:
The Executive Guide to IT Process Automation

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: : Windows Administration in Realtime - Issue #6

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Sustainable Compliance — How to reconnect compliance, security and business goals

This white paper examines trends in compliance and security management and approaches to reducing the cost and operational burden of compliance in the future. We will also discuss creating sustainability in your compliance efforts by approaching them with scalable processes that allow you to reduce manual compliance processes and gain efficiencies for future efforts.

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The Shortcut Guide to IT Service Management and Automation provides an insightful overview of IT service management and the service management life cycle.  Author and compliance expert Rebecca Herold demonstrates how technology acts as a strategic differentiator by enabling business growth, driving operational efficiencies to lower maintenance costs, optimizing outcomes, and reducing IT risks.  This excellent new guide discusses how the ITIL v3 framework can facilitate the delivery of high-quality IT services across the complete service management life cycle. In addition, the framework can help to align IT operations, applications, and strategies to achieve better governance, compliance, and efficiency across the IT environment, ultimately demonstrating the true value of IT to business units.

Chapter 1: Business Value of Service Life Cycle Management for IT Operations, written by Rebecca Herold, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/SGITSMA.htm

New Series: Optimizing Your Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Investment

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In The Essentials Series: Optimizing Your Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Investment, Microsoft MVP and author Greg Shields discusses the best ways to enhance your investment in Active Directory with the upgrade to Windows Server 2008.  This series starts with the key assessment activities that you must complete prior to any upgrade.  Sometimes that assessment determines that your AD structure is not aligned with your business needs.  In those cases, the second article discusses some of the common issues with AD migrations and restructures.  Once the upgrade is complete, getting the most out of your investment means managing it correctly.  The third article discusses common AD tasks and how best to simplify your management through automation.

The Essentials Series: Optimizing Your Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Investment, authored by Greg Shields, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/ESOWSADI.htm

The Executive Guide to IT Process Automation establishes the groundwork for orchestrating IT processes with a focus on business needs. Expert author Chad Marshall provides in-depth commentary that leverages industry best practices to demonstrate how an organization can increase the effectiveness of their IT systems, decrease their reaction times to new business initiatives, and enable the delivery of standards and compliance across the enterprise. In addition, The Executive Guide to IT Process Automation delivers a road map for the automation journey that evaluates process maturity and provides insightfully crafted IT process definitions to enable ITIL and ITSM.  The guide goes on to demonstrate how executives can identify their highest impact areas for automation, such as virtualization, consolidation, security, provisioning processes and disaster recovery and concludes with a best practice guide on how to select the vendors best capable of automating IT processes.

The Executive Guide to IT Process Automation, written by Chad Marshall, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/EGITPA.htm

Windows Administration in Realtime #6

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Features in the latest issue include:

• Applications for Whitelisting in an Windows XP / Windows Server 2003 Environment
• Lieberman Random Password Manager
• Leveraging the New Group Policy Preferences in Windows Server 2008
• Antivirus Management the PowerShell Way
• High-Availability Solutions with Exchange 2007 SP1

The latest issue of Windows Administration in Realtime, is available at:
http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/RTWA.htm

Recently Announced Chapters

The Shortcut Guide to Run Book Automation
Chapter 2: Key Ingredients for RBA Systems

The Executive Guide to IT Process Automation
Chapter 4: Getting Started... How to Evaluate Vendors

The Definitive Guide to Business Service Management
Complete eBook

The Definitive Guide to Building a Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure
Chapter 6: Managing & Customizing Group Policy

IT Compliance in Realtime
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Unifed Communications in Realtime
Issue #5

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