Everything about Windows service

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Windows serviceA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Study of Community Group Purchasing Vehicle Routing Problems Considering Service Time WindowsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Active DirectoryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Ensuring service levels in routing problems with time windows and stochastic travel timesCited 98 times
5. Go sideways: Net (command)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Windows UpdateA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Ensuring service levels in routing problems with time windows and stochastic travel times

  Jan Fabian Ehmke, Ann Melissa Campbell, Timothy L. Urban · 2015 · European Journal of Operational Research · 98 citations

• The vehicle routing problem with hard time windows and stochastic service times

  F. Errico, G. Desaulniers, M. Gendreau · 2018 · EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics · 63 citations

• Durability issues and service lifetime prediction of electrochromic windows for buildings applications

  A.W. Czanderna, D.K. Benson, G.J. Jorgensen · 1999 · Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells · 44 citations

• Time dependent orienteering problem with time windows and service time dependent profits

  M. Khodadadian, A. Divsalar, C. Verbeeck · 2022 · Computers & Operations Research · 42 citations

• A multimodal logistics service network design with time windows and environmental concerns

  Dezhi Zhang, Runzhong He, Shuangyan Li · 2017 · PLOS ONE · 40 citations

• Durable vanadium dioxide with 33-year service life for smart windows applications

  Tuan Duc Vu, Hong Xie, Shancheng Wang · 2022 · Materials Today Energy · 35 citations

• Dynamic container drayage with uncertain request arrival times and service time windows

  Shuai Jia, Haipeng Cui, Rui Chen · 2022 · Transportation Research Part B: Methodological · 35 citations

• Transshipment service through crossdocks with both soft and hard time windows

  Zhaowei Miao, Feng Yang, Ke Fu · 2010 · Annals of Operations Research · 33 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Study of Community Group Purchasing Vehicle Routing Problems Considering Service Time Windows

  Wei Song, Shuailei Yuan, Yun Yang · 2022 · Sustainability · 15 citations

• The flex-route transit service routing plan considering heterogeneous requests and time windows

  Mingyang Li, Jinjun Tang · 2024 · Advanced Engineering Informatics · 13 citations

• Optimal Service Time Windows

  Marlin W. Ulmer, Justin C. Goodson, Barrett W. Thomas · 2024 · Transportation Science · 7 citations

• Windows of Translation in Public Service Innovation. Introducing a New Mission in Public Childcare

  Ditte Thøgersen · 2022 · Journal of Change Management · 6 citations

• A two‐stage method for the shipper lane selection problem with time windows in transportation service procurement

  Fang Yang, F.J. Hwang, Yao‐Huei Huang · 2023 · International Transactions in Operational Research · 5 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Active DirectoryRobbie Allen, Joe Richards · 2003
• Programming WCF ServicesJuval Löwy, Michael S. Montgomery · 2007
• Group policyJeremy Moskowitz · 2010
• Active Directory CookbookRobbie Allen, Laura E. Hunter · 2003
• MCSE Training KitMicrosoft Press · 1999
• Mastering active directory for Windows Server 2008John A. Price, John A. Price · 2008
• MCSA Self-Paced Training KitMicrosoft Press · 2002
• MCSE training kitMicrosoft Press · 2000

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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