Administering Windows Vista Security: The Big Surprises

An Inside Look at Windows Vista Security for Systems Administrators

Get an early start on Windows Vista security and the technology shifts you’ll need to know as a systems administrator. From leading Windows expert Mark Minasi comes this “just-in-time” book to get you there. This targeted, hands-on guide takes a rapid-fire approach to the biggest security changes and how they’ll affect business as usual for those who must integrate and provide technical support for Windows Vista. You’ll find practical instruction, tips, workarounds, and much more.
* Work through a slew of Vista surprises, such as logging on as Administrator and how to re-enable Run
* Discover how virtualization works–and where it doesn’t
* Find out why you can no longer delete files in System32, even though you are an Administrator
* Get familiar with new post-boot security features such as PatchGuard
* Protect laptops to the max with the innovative BitLocker feature
* Meet the new Windows Integrity mechanism
* Explore the revamped Event Viewer, event forwarding, and new troubleshooting tools

Go above and beyond what you’ve heard about Vista

Discover the changes to Share and Registry Access

Catch up on all the encryption news and services

Try out Vista Remote Desktop with its enhanced security

About the Series

The Mark Minasi Windows Administrator Library equips system administrators with in-depth technical solutions to the many challenges associated with administering Windows in an enterprise setting. Series editor Mark Minasi, a leading Windows expert, not only selects the topics and authors, he also develops each book to meet the specific needs and goals of systems administrators, MIS professionals, help-desk personnel, and corporate programmers.

Administering Windows Vista Security: The Big Surprises

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International School and Symposium on Advanced Distributed Systems, ISSADS 2004, held in Guadalajara, Mexico in January 2004.

The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions.

Among the topics addressed are virtual characters, distributed toolkits, serial visual presentation, multi-agent architectures, MAS, agent-object hybrid languages, robot soccer agents, distributed querying, semantic search engines, coordination, distributed collaboration, virtual communities, peer-to-peer networks, P2P systems, distributed search mobile objects, load balancing, distributed algorithms, scheduling, and distributed information systems.