Rand Morimoto

Living in a world where technology is changing everything around us, the rapid advances and uses of technology over the past decade has completely upended how organizations use (or are impacted) by technology. Unlike just a decade ago where tech merely meant basic email, file sharing, and data entry, these days, the proper use of technologies drive competitive advantages for organizations enabling enterprises to reach customers, predict trends, and transact in ways never possible before these new technologies were available.This book covers the changes that have gone on over the past few years, and provides real world examples what organizations have done (and others can do) to not be a victim of the tech but leverage the new opportunities available in this new world of constant change.

In a short few years, cloud services have completely changed the way I.T. operations are run. Instead of focusing on servers and systems, I.T. teams have been evolving to focus on applications and services. However, solution focused services are just a transition point in the lifecycle of technology operations, as I.T. is still serving an overhead role as an operational cost center. The target destination for I.T. is to land as a business services division of an organization that is an enabler for increasing business revenues and optimizing business operations. This book shares the vision of the end state of I.T., and the steps an organization goes through in shifting its process of operations.

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.

As organizations shift their I.T. operations to a public cloud environment, the biggest mistake organizations make is building their modern cloud to mirror exactly how their on-premise environment was architected 20-years ago. As technologies have changed, so have cloud datacenter architecture, management, and administration tasks and processes. This book covers how a modern cloud-based environment can be built and maintained leveraging the latest in scripted processes, automation, and controls.

Cybersecurity is a term that is heard of frequently these days as the world of Internet hackers and cybercrimes has escalated lately. However, one can choose to be a victim of cyber-attacks, or choose to be aware and prepared to be cyber safe. Rand Morimoto was the Cybersecurity Advisor to President Bush, Y2K Advisor to President Clinton, and has spent the better part of the past three decades helping organizations and government agencies create secured environments. In this book, Dr. Morimoto covers his perspective on cybersecurity, and provides guidance on what individuals and organizations can do to help protect themselves against cyber-attacks. Dr. Morimoto covers recommendations on effective I.T. security strategies, and best practices at implementing and enforcing security policies that meet the business goals of organizations.

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.

Written from the hacker's perspective, Maximum Windows 2000 Security is a comprehensive, solutions-oriented guide to Windows 2000 security. Topics include: Physical & File System Security, Password Security, Malicious Code, Windows 2000 Network Security Architecture and Professional Protocols, Web Server Security, Denial of Service Attacks, Intrusion Detection, Hacking Secure Code in Windows 2000.