Book list for system administrators and IT professionals

Active Directory

• 70-640, Package: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration by Microsoft Official Academic Course
• Active Directory: Designing, Deploying, and Running Active Directory by Brian Desmond
• Active Directory® Administrator's Pocket Consultant by William Stanek
• Active Directory Domain Services 2008 How-To by John Policelli
• Active Directory Cookbook, 2nd Edition by Robbie Allen (Author), Laura Hunter (Author)
• Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Resource Kit by Stan Riemer

DNS

• DNS on Windows Server 2003 by Cricket Liu
• DNS and BIND (5th Edition) by Cricket Liu
• Pro DNS and BIND by Ron Aitchison

Exchange Server

• Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed by Rand Morimoto (Author), Michael Noel (Author), Chris Amaris (Author), Andrew Abbate (Author), Mark Weinhardt (Author)
• Mastering Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 by Jim McBee
• Mastering Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 by Jim McBee
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Pocket Consultant Second Edition by William R. Stanek

Group Policy

• Group Policy: Management, Troubleshooting, and Security: For Windows Vista , Windows 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 by Jeremy Moskowitz
• Group Policy: Fundamentals, Security, and Troubleshooting by Jeremy Moskowitz
• Windows® Group Policy Administrator's Pocket Consultant by William R. Stanek
• Windows® Group Policy Resource Kit: Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Vista® by Derek Melber

IIS

• Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit by Mike Volodarsky
• Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant by William R. Stanek
• Microsoft® IIS 6.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant by William R. Stanek

Microsoft Forefront

• Microsoft Forefront Security Administration Guide by Jesse Varsalone (Author), Jan Kanclirz Jr. (Author)

Registry Guide

• Microsoft Windows Registry Guide, Second Edition by Jerry Honeycutt
• Microsoft Windows XP Registry Guide by Jerry Honeycutt

SharePoint

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices by Ben Curry (Author), Bill English (Author)
• Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Göran Husman
• Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed by Michael Noel (Author), Colin Spence (Author)

System Center

• System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Unleashed by Kerrie Meyler
• System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed by Kerrie Meyler

Scripting

• Essential PowerShell by Holger Schwichtenberg
• Windows PowerShell in Action by Bruce Payette
• Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide by Ed Wilson
• Windows PowerShell Cookbook: for Windows, Exchange 2007, and MOM V3 by Lee Holmes
• Microsoft PowerShell, VBScript & JScript Bible by William R. Stanek

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

• Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V(TM) Resource Kit by Robert Larson (Author), Janique Carbone (Author)
• Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V: Insiders Guide to Microsoft's Hypervisor by John Kelbley
• Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V: Manage Your Datacenter with Hyper-V, Virtual PC, Virtual Server, and Application Virtualization by Jason Kappel

Windows Server 2008

• Mastering Windows Server 2008 Networking Foundations by Mark Minasi
• MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exams 70-640, 70-642, 70-643, 70-647): Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise Administrator Core Requirements by Dan Holme
• Windows Server 2008 Unleashed by Rand Morimoto
• Windows Server® 2008 Resource Kit by Microsoft Corporation
• The Complete Guide to Windows Server 2008 by John Savill
• Windows Server 2008 Inside Out by William R. Stanek
• Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals by Dan Holme