(Part 3) Top products from r/windows

This is out of my league in terms of knowledge, as I don't know the way Unix security is implemented too well but I will say this, syncing Windows permissions to Unix will be easy, just group the write permissions into Windows into a write permission on Unix, the other way though is going to be considerably hard unless you start working with the Unix version of extended attributes, which I certainly don't know about.

For information on the Windows Security system, and how ACLs work, then the Windows Internals 6th Edition books will be your best bet, Mark Russinovich, David Solomon and Alex Ionescu practically know the OS inside and out and they are a great read for learning more about the insides of Windows. Security is in part 1 chapter 6 on page 509 or 487 depending on your reader, but it helps to read through both just in case there are some additional details listed elsewhere.

I've linked the books below on the US version of Amazon, if you are in a different country it should be available using the search box on their, additionally you can probably

Part 1: http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Edition-Developer-Reference/dp/0735648735/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405718207&sr=8-1&keywords=windows+internals+7th+edition
Part 2: http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Edition-Developer-Reference/dp/0735665877/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1405718207&sr=8-2&keywords=windows+internals+7th+edition

Additionally I think Russinovich has a public email that you can contact him on to discuss stuff if you like. Apologies that I couldn't help a bit more but like I said, the requirements are far beyond my scope of knowledge.

There are plenty of resource that haven't been mentioned yet.

Here's a modern one: App design guidelines

and here's the classic book (specifically for Win32 apps -- I've been told that there's a PDF version of this out there, but I didn't look for it): Microsoft Windows User Experience

The UX book has a great deal of information in it that is still relevant to win32 application design.

Its sounds like you want raid10 https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/RAID-10-redundant-array-of-independent-disks you will need to buy a raid card if your motherboard doesn't support it. If it doesn't you will need one. I would recommend the LSI brand (I'm currently using an lsi card for raid6). https://www.amazon.com/LSI-Logic-SAS9260-8I-8PORT-512MB/dp/B002IT4YG2?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_2 this one appears to support raid10. In the QA there is a user who explains how to set it up.

PCI-E to IDE Adapter

This might help if your friend can spare 20 bucks.

No, probably not. I assume you are looking at one of those USB to PS2 mouse adapters. You can try it, but I doubt anything will happen. You might be better off getting a PCMCIA SD card adapter.

Does your laptop have a network connection? Access to the Internet? If so, you might be able to copy files to or from your laptop over the network, either via a local network share or something like Google Drive or Dropbox.

If none of those options are viable, you could pull the laptop's hard drive and transfer your files using an IDE to USB adapter and another computer.

Have you tried just jumping into power shell? power shell in a month of lunches is a great place to start.

I've got a lot of experience with Windows, and I was an IT major in college but that was years ago. It's a new requirement from the organization that I work for so that we can be system administrators on the machines. Thanks for the input, I haven't scheduled the exam yet but I have been looking at buying this book. As far as CBT's do you have any recommendations?

Maybe The Old New Thing by longtime Microsoft employee Raymond Chen? Also dig through his blog archives.

Most other books I can think of are either all about programming for Windows (everything by Charles Petzold, for example), or about Microsoft itself (Barbarians Led by Bill Gates for example). Raymond's book itself isn't exactly what you're looking for either, and I haven't personally read it, but I do follow his blog and if the book is anything like that (I assume it is) it'll be a mix of technical details about why or how something was done in Windows and personal stories about working at Microsoft.

This is a good idea. Even if they don't support it you can always go out and buy a cheap crossover cable

I wanted to recommend this.

You connect it to your PC with an ethernet cable and a USB cable for power, and set up your network information through a web interface. Then you are connected to your wireless network as if you are using a cable. Depending on your computer, it can even speed up your connection, as it "outsources" the processing overhead of WLAN encryption, error correction and such.

I'm quite surprised that they are so expensive in the US, though. I bought mine a few months ago for less than 30€.

[edit] This seems to be very similar, and slightly cheaper.

If both systems have fast NIC's at 100 gigabits per second, using a cross over cable would be the fastest/cheapest route. Get a cross over Ethernet cable (http://amzn.com/B000A4AVW8), manually setting IP address's, then just access the share from one system and copy the files as needed.

Amazon has it

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Windows-Professional-Service-OEM/dp/B000JTDV6M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382614927&sr=8-1&keywords=windows+xp

here is a decent one

http://www.amazon.com/Behringer-UCA202-Audio-Interface/dp/B000KW2YEI

You could go hardware - USB mouse jiggler

If it's an old 3.5" HDD you'll probably need an IDE enclosure - https://www.amazon.com/Acomdata-Samba-3-5-Inch-Enclosure-SMBXXXU2E-BLU/dp/B000VNOHSW

Windows Deployment Server is free with normal server licenses.

It can PXE boot, load in all sorts of drivers and is really smart. I prefer it to SCCMs version. There is a book on how to set it up, I can’t recall the name of it right.m now, buts its step by step and is baller.

You don’t want to do a golden image that is sysprepped and then layed onto new machines. You are asking for trouble imo. Plus make new images takes forever and is really more dependamt. With WDS your golden image can be applied to any make model and can be confided to installs something (or not) depending on make model or if it’s a laptop/desktop.

If you have a ton of Lenovo in house, it gets ‘slightly’ trickier with the way they store the more info in the bios/wmic. But they cover that in the book.

Edit: https://www.amazon.com/Deployment-Fundamentals-Vol-Deploying-Microsoft/dp/9187445212/ref=nodl_

That Mykael Nystrom really really knows his shit.