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Aiming to help teachers make a fuller contribution to school development, this text provides a guide to "reflective action planning", a teacher-led system for initiating and sustaining educational change. The book also aims to provide higher education tutors, external consultants, LEA advisers and school managers with guidelines for establishing cost-effective school-based support and accreditation for school development work. Facsimiles, checklists, formats and other tools are used in the context of a school-based support programme. ... Read more

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Dramatically improve your implementation and administration of Exchange Server 2007 with the PowerShell tips contained in Professional Windows® PowerShellTM for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1. Discover the ins and outs of PowerShell, including how to deploy, configure, manage, and maintain your Exchange environment. Explore Windows PowerShell and the Exchange Server 2007 Management Shell and learn how to work with the new Exchange server roles, cmdlets and features specific to these roles. Learn quickly from the numerous, easy-to-follow examples and apply the information to enhance your Exchange experience. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Poor resource
I was pleased to see a PowerShell resource for Exchange 2007.However, when I receive this it did not satisfy either of my two desires: 1) to learn more about the fundamentals of PowerShell (such as effective using pipilining), 2) better administering Exchange 2007 from the PowerShell.

This book just seemed to have cherrypicked topics from a standard implementing Exchange 2007 and threw together a punch of cmdlet references.My coworker and I went through the book and came out more confused than before we started with the book.

Stick with the Exchange Tech Center and the online help and you will be better off than with this reference.

Must Have
This book is a must for any Exchange 2007
admin! Great read. No other book like it!

May be good for day to day admin work....
But they left out a big section regarding migrations.Having just completed migrating 2000 mailboxes, I found this book to be rather useless in that task.It may be good for day to day admin, and it may be good at creating 1000 mailboxes automatically, but it had little to no information on scripts and recommendations for automating a migration.

PowerShell for E2K7 SP1
This is a good book for Exchange Administrators.i have quite a few E2K7 books including the MS Press E2K7 Admin Companion and some of the earlier PowerShell books to include MONAD.this is a very easy read/reference book that gives you solid examples of how to use PowerShell. what i would have liked was a comprehensive listing of ALL options and a good reference is technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124413%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx it breaks down cmdlets by role so you can choose exactly what you want with specifics.
Bottom line, good book for both novices and experts.

Exchange 2007 Command Shell - It's about time
It's about time this book was written and published. If you own one or more of the half-dozen E2k7 books that have been written and published in the past year, you have just one more to pick up - this one. This book is written to be exactly what E2k7 administrators need after their initial installation of Exchange. Nearly all E2k7 books focus on the management of E2k7 but primarily from the Exchange Management Console perspective. (Actually, a book that does a very good job on command shell topics is the "Mastering Exchange Server 2007" book by Gerber and McBee. It's very good.)

Also covered in the book are topics of Troubleshooting, SCC and CR high-availability shell strategies. These three topics alone are worth the price of the book - to have all the PowerShell cmdlets in one place is truly convenient.

If you are looking for a excellent book on Exchange Command Shell from A to Z - and NOT generic Powershell coverage and Exchange-absent ramblings - then pick this book up. It's a resource for us messaging consultants and admins. who don't want to be Powershell gurus - just real good at Exchange Command Shell. ... Read more

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This book argues that to achieve substantial progress in our schools policy/funding/administrative reform must be coupled with teacher-led curricular reform. ... Read more

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Everything you need to know to plan and maintain a Joomla! site

Joomla! offers powerful functionality and ease of configuration, making it an immensely popular open source content management system. However, far more than simply downloading and installing Joomla! is required in order to create a dynamic web site. This book walks you through the critical steps that must be taken in the planning process prior to establishing a Joomla! site. Joomla! expert Jen Kramer reviews essential questions that need to be asked of a client, discusses technical solutions to a variety of challenges, and explains how a site structure should be organized.

Topics Covered:

I Want a Web Site and I Want It Blue — How Much Will That Cost?

Choosing the Right Technologies to Solve the Business Problem

Downloading and Installing Joomla!

A Brief Tour of the Joomla! Administration Interface

Creating and Configuring Menus

Installing and Configuring

Modules That Come with Joomla

Components That Come with Joomla!

Plug-Ins That Come with Joomla!

Adding Extensions to Joomla!

Home Page Tips and Tricks

Custom Templates

Advanced Template and CSS Tricks

Site Maintenance and Training

Once the groundwork has been laid, you'll discover how to host and install Joomla!, and upgrade and maintain your Joomla! site.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (7)

Best book I've read on this subject so far
Great book! It has helped me immensely in converting my static html website into a joomla site. Well written and easy to follow. If you aren't real familar with CSS or Html you need separate books on those subjects. If you are more advanced and know a lot of PHP, get a more advanced book on that topic.

Excellent Reference
I have been using DreamWeaver for the last few years to maintain/update client sites.I have a client that needed a cms site.After deciding on Joomla!, I read and referenced this book throughout the process. It was very helpful, and got me through most of the key concepts.Layout and pace of the book was very good, as was the language/terminology.As for any book, you will run into issues when creating your site that may or may not be covered.Even though that was the case, the concept was covered. When I searched the Joomla! community, this made it much easier to understand and implement the solution.

I also liked the "Favorite Extensions" chapter--essential tools for managing, backing-up, and enhancing the site.

I knew I'd like it when I saw who authored it
...and I was right. I'd watched her videos on another site for Joomla and knew I wanted the book. I think I have most every J! book out there but this one is outstanding. If you're stumped on your site or just need more info than you have, this is a great solution.

What I liked: good clear instruction. Lots of overviews of the admin stuff, plus outside-the-Joomla-box info on planning. A good section on backup.

What I would like more of: extension coverage, especially the multi-use modules and the ecommerce selections. That is because most of these are poorly documented by their creators and no one has really tackled a book on the subject (although most J! authors do include sections in their books on the topics).

Well worth your dollars and minutes to get and read.

The book never made it past "Start"
The book never made it past "Start".If you are a beginner, it did not adequately explain the relationships between Sections, Categories, Articles and Menus - the basis of Joomla.If you are a more advanced web designer making the transition to a Content Management System (CMS) - the book spends a scant several pages on using external templates and resolving issues.

You are better off spending a few dollars less for a basic entry level book if you are just learning the ropes of CMS.Or, for more advanced designers, spend a few dollars more and buy something that goes deeper into the subtle nuances of Joomla.

Decent book!
This book covers some pretty good material in terms of the basics of starting a website with Joomla.It gives a good foundation for how to make a site that is usable on the Internet.However, it doesn't cover a lot of questions a user might have if they are familiar with HTML and are now trying to use Joomla for a website.One example is that I was unable to find anything about making a link from one article page to another.There is only information about how to make links from the homepage.There is also very little about how to create basic HTML items such as drop down lists and frames. ... Read more