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This page is intended to be an alphabetically ordered list of suggested or recommended books for IT Professionals, both mentioned in TechNet Wiki pages and outside.
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Active Directory

• Active Directory, 4th Edition, Designing, Deploying, and Running Active Directory
  Brian Desmond, Joe Richards, Robbie Allen, Alistair G. Lowe-Norris - O'Reilly Media, November 2008
• Active Directory® Administrator's Pocket Consultant
  William Stanek - Microsoft Press, January 2009
• Active Directory Cookbook, 3rd Edition, Solutions for Administrators & Developers
  Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen - O'Reilly Media, December 2008
• Active Directory Domain Services 2008 How-To
  John Policelli - Sams, May 2009
• Inside Active Directory: A System Administrator's Guide (2nd Edition)
  Sakari Kouti, Mika Seitsonen - Addison-Wesley Professional, September 2004
• Mastering Active Directory for Windows Server 2008
  John A. Price, Brad Price, Scott Fenstermacher - Sybex, June 2008
• MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-640): Configuring Windows Server® 2008 Active Directory®, 2nd Edition
  Dan Holme, Nelson Ruest, Danielle Ruest, Jason Kellington - Microsoft Press, June 2011
• Windows Server® 2008 Active Directory® Resource Kit
  Stan Riemer, Conan Kezema, Mike Mulcare, Byron Wright - Microsoft Press, March 2008

BizTalk Server

• BizTalk Server (Wiki)

Group Policy

• Creating the Secure Managed Desktop: Using Group Policy, SoftGrid, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and Other Management Tools
  Jeremy Moskowitz - Sybex, June 2008
• Group Policy: Fundamentals, Security, and Troubleshooting
  Jeremy Moskowitz - Sybex, May 2008
• Group Policy: Fundamentals, Security, and the Managed Desktop
  Jeremy Moskowitz - Sybex, May 2010
• Windows® Group Policy Administrators Pocket Consultant
  William R. Stanek - Microsoft Press, February 2009
• Windows® Group Policy Resource Kit: Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Vista®
  Derek Melber - Microsoft Press, March 2008

Networking

• Understanding IPv6, 2nd Edition
  Joseph Davies - Microsoft Press, January 2008

SharePoint

• Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed
  Michael Noel, Colin Spence - Sams, October 2010
• Microsoft® SharePoint® Administrator's Kit: Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant & Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Administrator’s Companion
  Ben Curry, Bill English, Brian Alderman, Mark Ferraz - Microsoft Press, March 2011

SQL Server

• SQL Server Books (Wiki)

Training and Certification

• MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-667): Configuring Microsoft SharePoint 2010
  Alistair Matthews, Dan Holme - Microsoft Press, September 2011

Windows

• Microsoft Windows Internals: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000, 4th Edition
  Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon - Microsoft Press, December 2004
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional Resource Kit, 3rd Edition
  The Microsoft Windows Team, Charlie Russel, Sharon Crawford - Microsoft Press, February 2005
• Windows 7 Resource Kit
  Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt - Microsoft Press, October 2009
• Windows Internals, 5th Edition
  Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu - Microsoft Press, June 2009
• Windows Internals, Part 1, 6th Edition
  Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu - Microsoft Press, March 2012
• Windows Internals, Part 2, 6th Edition
  Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu - Microsoft Press, September 2012
• Windows® Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference
  Mark E. Russinovich, Aaron Margosis - Microsoft Press, June 2011
• Windows Vista Resource Kit, 2nd Edition
  Jerry Honeycutt, Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup - Microsoft Press, July 2008

Windows Server

• Windows Server 2008 Resource Kit
  Microsoft Corporation - Microsoft Press, March 2008
• The Complete Guide to Windows Server 2008
  John Savill - Addison-Wesley Professional, October 2008
• Windows Server 2008 Administrators Pocket Consultant, 2nd Edition
  William R. Stanek - Microsoft Press, December 2009
• Migrating from 2008 and 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 How-To
  Santhosh Sivarajan - Packt Publishing, January 2013

See Also

• Books for Developers
• E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies
• Wiki: Platforms Portal
• Wiki: Technologies Portal

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