Guy Yardeni

This is the most comprehensive and realistic guide to Windows Server 2016 planning, design, prototyping, implementation, migration, administration, and support. Extensively updated, it contains unsurpassed independent and objective coverage of Windows Server 2016's key innovations, including the cloud, containers, and Windows 10 integration. Windows Server 2016 Unleashed reflects the authors’ extraordinary experience implementing Windows Server 2016 in large-scale environments since its earliest alpha releases, reaching back more than two years prior to its official launch. Microsoft MVP Rand Morimoto and his colleagues fully address every aspect of deploying and operating Windows Server 2016, including Active Directory, networking and core application services, security, migration from Windows Server 2003/2008, administration, fault tolerance, optimization, troubleshooting, and much more. Valuable for Windows professionals at all skill levels, this book will be especially indispensable for intermediate-to-advanced level professionals seeking expert, in-depth solutions. Every chapter contains tips, tricks, best practices, and lessons learned from actual deployments: practical information for using Windows Server 2016 to solve real business problems.

For the past two decades, organizations have been building out local area networks (LANs) and corporate datacenters, however with the proliferation of the "cloud", organizations now have the choice of leveraging cloud-based resources to host their systems and applications. While small businesses may be able to put "everything" up in the cloud, larger enterprises will likely remain in a hybrid model for a while, with some I.T. resources remaining on-premise, and other I.T. resources being situated in the cloud. Microsoft announced their "CloudOS" strategy where the Windows Server operating system they've had for years has been optimized to run both on-premise and in the cloud. Additionally, Microsoft now provides organizations the ability to "stretch" their on-premise datacenters to include cloud-based resources, and manage the cloud services as if they were a direct extension of the organization's internal network. In this book, Microsoft experts Rand Morimoto, Chris Amaris, and Guy Yardeni share new world I.T. strategies how organizations are creating hybrid datacenter networks, how Windows Server systems on-premise can be replicated to guest sessions in Windows Azure in the cloud, and where Microsoft's System Center management tools fit in to managing the Hybrid Datacenter environment.