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	Excerpt from Networking with Microsoft Windows Vista: Your Guide to Easy and Secure Windows Vista Networking Read the author's guest blog Buy a discounted copy of the book
Published by Que ISBN-10: 0-7897-3777-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-3777-9

Chapter 8: Accessing and Sharing Network Resources
In this chapter

• Accessing Shared Network Resources

• Mapping a Network Folder to a Local Drive Letter

• Creating a Network Location for a Remote Folder

• Accessing a Shared Printer

• Sharing Resources with the Network

Many home and small office networks exist for no other reason than to share a broadband Internet connection. The administrators of those networks attach a broadband modem to a router, configure the router, run some ethernet cable (or set up wireless connections), and then they never think about the network again.

There’s nothing wrong with this scenario, of course, but there’s something that just feels, well, incomplete about such a network. Sharing an Internet connection is a must for any modern network, but networking should be about sharing so much more: disk drives, folders, documents, music, photos, videos, recorded TV shows, printers, scanners, CD and DVD burners, projectors, and more.

This expanded view of networking is about working, playing, and connecting with your fellow network users. It is, in short, about sharing, and sharing is the subject of this chapter. You learn how to access those network resources that others have shared, and you learn how to share your own resources with the network.

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	Excerpt from Project Management for Mere Mortals Read the author's guest blog. Buy a discounted copy of the book.
Published by Addison-Wesley Professional ISBN-10: 0-321-42345-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-321-42345-0

Topics Covered in This Chapter

All About Execution

Creating the Baselines

Getting into a Rhythm

Quality Audits

Teaming

Politics

Summary

Case Study

This chapter is all about what has to be done when you execute your project. It seems pretty straightforward that your team will be performing the tasks of the project. But you will be amazed by all the activities that need to be done while those tasks are being performed. One of the activities that you might not be familiar with is the concept of quality audits. I introduce that concept in this chapter and talk about what gets audited. I also cover the subject of how many quality audits you might consider on your project. I finish that topic with the timings of quality audits.

First, though, you have to set up a baseline. I talk about each type of baseline and then cover how to use them and the purpose of baselining in general. Next comes the idea of getting into a rhythm on your project.

In "Teaming" I talk about another element to use to develop the project team: training. Team members will not perform effectively if they are not trained to do the job properly. I cover the different types of training that might be needed.

In "Politics" I talk about obstacles to executive communication. You might run into a couple executive types you have dealt with before: the Mad Hatter and the Executive Ostrich.

In the case study, Chris spends most of her week getting ready for the meeting with June. She still has to complete the budget and the schedule to properly brief June. She gets caught up in a lot of meetings, though, and has a lot of details to work through to finish in time.

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Excerpt from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Unleashed . ISBN-10: 0-672-32970-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-672-32970-8

• Actions

• Activities

• History

• Notes

• Attachments

• Run Workflow

• Advanced Find

• Form Assistant

• Record Merge

• Send Direct E-mail

• Resource Center

Microsoft Dynamics CRM has a number of common features. By "common," we mean that, when working with most of the entities, they have the same functionality included in this chapter.

As an example, Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, and Cases all have functionality on their main form that includes the following:

• Actions

• Activities

• History

• Notes

• Attachments

• Workflows

Because they are so similar (regardless of which entity you're working with), we have grouped these functions in this chapter to consolidate the description of their functionality.

The Resource Center is included with this chapter because all users of the application use it in the same manner.
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