Preparing for .NET Enterprise Technologies: A Practical Guide for People, PCs, and Processes Interacting in a .NET World - Softcover

Ruest, Nelson; Ruest, Danielle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201734877 ISBN 13: 9780201734874

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2001

Synopsis

Details the Enterprise Management Framework (EMF), a comprehensive series of easy to follow processes that cover everything from initiating communications with your user base to implementing standards and structuring training programs. Softcover.

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About the Author

Nelson Ruest is an enterprise architect specializing in change management. During his twenty-year career, he has served as a computer operator, network administrator, and director for IT consulting firms. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Microsoft Certified Trainer. He is head of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Deployment Track for several Comdex Conference Programs, and is a frequent guest speaker at Comdex and other conferences in North America.

Danielle Ruest is a workflow architect and consultant focused on people and organizational issues for large IT deployment projects. During her twenty-year career, she has led change management processes, developed and delivered training, and managed communications programs during process-implementation projects. 0201734877AB09142001

From the Back Cover

The move to enterprise-level technologies is a significant change for IT. Today's networks often grow piece by piece as organizations discover new business requirements or simply try to keep up with rapid IT changes. But in an enterprise IT world, everything must be integrated.

With the constant influx of new distributed technologies, in particular the .NET technologies from Microsoft, system administrators, network professionals, and business managers know that setting up and implementing these systems can be as critical to enterprise success as the technologies themselves. To take advantage of .NET, you must be prepared.

Preparing for .NET Enterprise Technologies shows you how to manage, support, and profit from ever-changing environments by providing a comprehensive roadmap to establishing the tools, organizational policies, and support structures for enterprise systems. In addition, the book focuses on the human factor, featuring practical advice on human-computer interaction and change management.

This book details the Enterprise Management Framework (EMF)--a comprehensive series of easy-to-follow processes that cover everything from initiating communications with your user base to implementing standards and structuring training programs. It thoroughly explains the underlying services framework required in a distributed organization, and it includes proven project approaches for the deployment of technologies. The EMF model is designed to meet the challenges of the modern IT world, where continuous availability, simplicity of management, and a new client/server model are required.

Numerous anecdotes, case studies, examples drawn from actual projects, and diagrams help bring important concepts to life. Microsoft technologies are used as a source of practical examples throughout the book. Specific technologies illustrated include Active Directory, Windows 2000/XP Professional, and Windows 2000/.NET Server or Advanced Server. But the EMF model can be applied to any technological environment.

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When Addison-Wesley asked us to write this book, we were thrilled. We'd been working in the IT industry for over 20 years. During this time, we participated in a lot of projects, met people from every level of every type of organization, and lived through all sorts of work situations. Each and every experience had a single, unifying thread: change and change management.

This book enabled us to bring together many of the concepts and ideas we have gathered, identified, developed, designed, and put in place during our careers. Our goal is that it becomes a guide that can help you, we hope, to understand change and to transform your organization into one that can live with constant change, whether it is technological or human in nature.

Living with constant change is important to all of us who work with computers. A 2001 Statistics Canada survey revealed that more than 57 percent of working Canadians worked with a PC. Of these, more than 80 percent worked with a computer every day. This trend is the same in the United States, and it doesn't stop with the workforce. Computers are becoming even more pervasive in our everyday lives.

This world of constant change is the reason for our focus on people, PCs, and processes. Knowing, understanding, and mastering everything about your organization, its objectives, and its purpose are essential when you are implementing IT change if you want to be able to profit from it and, especially, help your users benefit from it. This book helps you get there.

In this book, we propose a unified Enterprise Management Framework (EMF) for distributed technologies. This Framework can help people and organizations make better sense of the IT world. The book is presented in two parts. First, it helps you identify the need for change in your IT infrastructure. It also identifies specific tools you can use to ease the change process--to manage the change. Second, it helps you prepare for the EMF and implement it as a comprehensive IT change management strategy.

This book is also a planning tool that can help you make the transition to .NET Enterprise Technologies, a world where all elements are tied together and every element may impact the others, a world where it is important--if not crucial--to ensure that every modification you bring to your network does not impact existing processes in a negative manner. Here, IT change is not only constant, it is perpetual, because IT components are always on the move.

We included more than 100 illustrations that help define the processes we describe. Because many of the processes can appear fairly complex at first, these illustrations help simplify them. These processes work: Each and every one has been implemented in whole or in part in real-life situations.

Information is power. The more you know, the better your decisions will be. That's why we feel managers and IT professionals--and even users--should be aware of the processes we describe. One of our main goals is to bridge the gap between the vision users have of a computer system and the technical approaches IT professionals take to prepare and deliver them.

We sincerely hope you find this book as rich and rewarding as we have. For us, this book is the culmination of a dream: helping people interact with PCs. Your comments will always be appreciated because they can only help improve the way users around the world interact with computers.Companion Web Site

Several of the items in this book can also be found on our companion Web site: Reso-Net/EMF. Among the resources you'll find there are All of the forms displayed in this book, especially those in the appendixes (available in Adobe Acrobat format) Some of the complex images in the book (available in JPEG and/or EPS for printing in a larger format) Additional items to assist you in your change management processes

Enjoy the book!Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest 0201734877P10082001

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201734877
• ISBN 13: 9780201734874
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 353