William R. Stanek

William Stanek Jr. is an IT Admin & Engineer, working for a Seattle-based company. He has contributed to dozens of technical books, including Windows PowerShell 6 (IT Pro Solutions).

Ebooks

Office 365 & Exchange Online: Essentials for Administration

Windows PowerShell: The Personal Trainer for Windows PowerShell 3.0 and Windows PowerShell 4.0

Windows 10: Essentials for Administration

Windows Server 2016: Essentials for Administration

Windows PowerShell for Administration: The Personal Trainer

Windows Command Line: The Personal Trainer for Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2

Microsoft PowerShell, VBScript and JScript Bible

Windows Server 2016: The Administrator's Reference

Windows Server 2016: Installing & Configuring

Web Server Administration: The Personal Trainer for IIS 7.0 and IIS 7.5

Active Directory Administration for Windows Server 2012 & Windows Server 2012 R2: The Personal Trainer

Exchange Server 2016 & Exchange Online: Essentials for Administration

Windows Group Policy: The Personal Trainer for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2016: Domain Infrastructure

Exchange Server 2016: Server Infrastructure

IIS 8 Administration: The Personal Trainer for IIS 8.0 and IIS 8.5

Group Policy Administration: The Personal Trainer for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Exchange Server 2016: IT Pro Library

XSL: The Personal Trainer for XSLT, XPath and XSL-FO

Windows Server 2016: Server Infrastructure

IIS 8 Web Applications, Security & Maintenance: The Personal Trainer for IIS 8.0 & IIS 8.5

Email, Internet, Web: The Personal Trainer

Active Directory Administration: The Personal Trainer for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2

XML, DTDs, Schemas: The Personal Trainer

Essential Windows XP Commands Reference

Effective Writing for Business, College, and Life

Presenting Exchange Server 2016 & Exchange Online: IT Pro Solutions

Windows Server 2016: Essential Services

Web Applications, Security & Maintenance: The Personal Trainer for IIS 7.0 & IIS 7.5

Windows 7: The Personal Trainer

Windows Command Line for Administration for Windows, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2

Stop Using Shame as a Schedule: Replacing Self-Criticism With Structure, Review, and Honest Accountability

Thriving Amidst Flux: Navigating Change and Uncertainty - Adapt. Lead. Flourish in a world of change.

The Resilient Leader, Embracing Resilience for Success: Actionable Leadership Principles, Straightforward and Effective

Build Without Burning Out: Designing Ambitious Work Around Capacity, Recovery, and the Rest of Your Life

The Conversation Under the Conversation: How to Hear the Need Beneath the Recurring Argument

Not Every Fire Is Yours: How to Care Without Becoming the Permanent Emergency Service

The Resilient Leader, Embracing Resilience for Success: Comprehensive Professional and Collegiate Reference

The Abundance You Can Share: Turning Knowledge, Access, and Success Into Shared Opportunity

Make the Goal Smaller, Not the Dream: Building a Sustainable Next Step Without Abandoning the Larger Vision

The 8 Pillars of Leadership, Case Studies and Strategies: William Stanek’s Leadership Plan

What If You Succeed?: Preparing for Visibility, Responsibility, and the Changes Success Can Bring

The Lie of Never Enough: Why Every Achievement Can Still Feel Insufficient—and How to Stop Moving the Line

Harmony in the Chaos: Cultivating Depth, Balance, & Resonance in Life's Symphony

Clarity Before Commitment: Knowing When You Have Enough Truth to Make a Responsible Promise

Enough Time for What Matters: Defining Enough in a Culture That Treats Every Minute as Available

The Reality Check That Sets You Free: Naming Constraints, Costs, and Facts Without Collapsing Into Defeat

The Gentle Discipline of Showing Up: Combining Compassion With Standards, Follow-Through, and Course Correction

The Work No One Applauds: How Quiet, Repetitive, and Supportive Labor Becomes Real Contribution

When the Plan Breaks: How to Adapt Without Treating Revision as Defeat

Rest Without Earning It: Why Recovery Belongs Inside Meaningful Work

Generosity Without Depletion: Giving Time, Money, and Care Without Becoming Permanently Depleted

Name the Pattern, Change the Pattern: Tracing the Cue, Response, Reward, and Interruption Point of Repeated Behavior

Chisel Your Path: Carving Authenticity and Purpose in the Chaos of Life

The Five-Minute Return: A Brief Ritual for Recovering Direction in the Middle of a Scattered Day

Become the Person Who Can Carry the Dream: Building the Skills, Support, and Integrity Your Desired Future Will Require

When Rest Feels Like Failure: Releasing Productivity Guilt and Learning What Restoration Requires

Leave the Place Stronger: How Leadership Becomes Stewardship, Capacity, and Succession

The Long Goal and the Hard Middle: Continuing, Adapting, or Stopping When Novelty Is Gone and Results Are Distant

Make Room for What Matters: How to Clear Space Without Abandoning Real Responsibilities

What Your Body Knows Before You Do: Reading Stress, Fatigue, and Tension as Information—not Diagnosis

Forgiveness Without Forgetting: Letting Go of Revenge Without Automatically Restoring Trust or Access

The Comparison Machine: How Another Person's Visible Outcome Becomes Your Private Verdict

The Caregiver Without a Spare Hour: How to Preserve Capacity When Responsibilities Cannot Simply Be Dropped

Calm Is Contagious—But Concealment Is Not: How to Steady a Room Without Hiding What People Need to Know

Consistency for Tired People: Sustaining Meaningful Practices During Caregiving, Illness, or Demanding Seasons

A Rhythm You Can Actually Keep: How to Build a Pattern from the Life You Really Have

When Success Stops Feeling Like Success: How to Reassess a Life That Looks Right but No Longer Feels Aligned

The Wisdom of the Fallow Season: Understanding Dormancy, Nonproduction, and Rest as Part of a Living Cycle

When Love and Access Are Not the Same: Why Affection, Forgiveness, Trust, and Closeness Are Different Decisions

Leave the Life That No Longer Fits: Acting on Sustained Misalignment in Work, Relationships, or Identity

The Competence Tax: Why Capable People Inherit Everyone Else's Unfinished Work

The Myth of Constant Improvement: Why Growth Does Not Require Perpetual Self-Correction

The Courage to Change Your Mind: Revising a Plan, Identity, or Promise When It No Longer Fits

Thriving Amidst Flux While Navigating Change and Uncertainty: Adapt. Lead. Flourish in a world of change

RESET: The Daily Renewal Practice for Clarity, Growth, and Joy

Critical Thinking: Leading With Clarity and Precision - Data vs intuition, risks vs rewards, smarter decisions.

Stop Turning Your Life into Content: How Public Performance Changes Private Choice

The Next Brave Step: Choosing One Consequential Action That Is Uncomfortable, Possible, and Aligned

When Urgent Is a Lie: How to Distinguish a Real Deadline from Borrowed Panic

Return to Yourself: Integrating Abundance, Renewal, Clarity, Sustainable Action, and Courage Into a Repeatable Return

Boundaries Without the Speech: How to Say No Clearly Without Building a Courtroom Case

Retirement Without a Role: How to Rebuild Rhythm, Identity, and Usefulness After Work Ends

Tell Yourself the Truth Without Turning on Yourself: Practicing Honest Self-Inquiry Without Shame, Excuses, or Self-Rejection

Stop Measuring Your Life Against Someone Else’s: Turning Envy and Comparison Into Useful Information About What Matters

A Life with Fewer Shoulds: How Inherited Expectations Quietly Write Your Calendar

Your Environment Is Part of Your Willpower: Using Cues, Friction, Visibility, and Access to Make Better Choices Easier

Money Without Shame: Facing Spending, Debt, Scarcity, and Self-Worth With Clarity

The High Performer Who Damages the Room: Why Measurable Results Cannot Excuse Behavior That Weakens the Team

Letting Go Without Giving Up: Releasing Control or Attachment Without Abandoning Values and Responsibility

The Dream You Keep Explaining Away: Recognizing the Ambition Hidden Beneath Years of Practical Objections

A Quarterly Life Audit: A Whole-Life Review of Work, Health, Money, Relationships, Meaning, and Rest

The Wealth of Being Well-Loved: Recognizing Love, Trust, and Reciprocity as Forms of Real Wealth

Balance Is Not Stillness: Why a Meaningful Life Can Be Uneven and Still Be Balanced

Reinvention Without Self-Rejection: How to Change Direction While Carrying Forward What Remains True

Should I Stay, Shift, or Let Go?: Evaluating Whether a Commitment Should Continue, Change, Pause, or End

The Apology Without a New Pattern: Why Remorse Alone Is Not Repair

Living Through an Unfinished Season: How to Live Well While Important Questions Remain Unresolved

The Difference Between a Weakness and a Wound: Matching Skill-Building, Support, Boundaries, or Care to the Actual Problem

Your Attention Is Not Public Property: How Constant Availability Lets Other People Establish Your Priorities

The Relationships That Make You More Yourself: How Healthy Connection Supports Individuality Rather Than Erasing It

Orchestrating Impact: Conducting Life’s Symphony with Purpose and Resilience: Embrace Chaos, Find Purpose, Make an Impact

When the Feed Gets in Your Head: How Algorithms, Interruption, and Outrage Redirect Attention Without Permission

Accountability Without Humiliation: How to Address Serious Mistakes Without Turning Them into Permanent Identity

Living Without an Audience: How to Make Choices That Need No Applause, Proof, or Publication

Stop Rescuing Capable People: How to Develop Judgment Instead of Rewarding Helplessness

Air War: The Incredible True Story of the Combat Flyers. Episodes 1, 2, 3, & 4

Shifting Mindsets: Transform Thinking, Transform Leadership - The right mindset is a game-changer in leadership.

Chisel Your Path: Carving Authenticity and Purpose in the Chaos of Life: Embrace Chaos, Find Purpose, Make an Impact

Design a Morning That Gives Something Back: Creating a Morning Rhythm That Restores Before the World Begins Taking

The Meeting After the Meeting: How Unspoken Concerns Hollow Out Formal Agreement

Grief Without a Lesson: How to Live with Pain That Has Not Produced Wisdom, Gratitude, or Growth

The Week That Refuses to Cooperate: How to Build Plans That Survive Ordinary Disruption

Grief Is Not a Detour: Making Room for Loss Without Treating It as Failed Progress

The Emotional Budget: How to Stop Spending Attention Without Producing Clarity or Action

Presence in an Age of Noise: Reclaiming Chosen Attention in a World Built to Interrupt It

Stop Caring About Everything: How to Protect Your Energy Without Becoming Indifferent

Harmony in the Chaos: Cultivating Depth, Balance, and Resonance in Life’s Symphony: Embrace Chaos, Find Purpose, Make an Impact

The Friendship Maintained by History: How to Recognize When Shared Years Are Carrying the Entire Bond

Stop Performing Closeness: How to Stop Maintaining a Relationship's Appearance After Its Substance Has Changed

Joy Is Not a Reward: Reclaiming Pleasure, Play, and Celebration Before Everything Is Finished

Missed a Day? Begin Again: Recovering From a Lapse Without Turning It Into a Verdict About Who You Are

The Hobby That Became Another Job: How Pleasure Disappears When Every Interest Must Become Productive

What Is Working That You Keep Ignoring?: Using Neglected Strengths, Progress, and Support as Evidence for What Comes Next

The Day After Burnout: What Recovery Requires After Exhaustion Has Already Taken Hold

Service as a Way Back to Yourself: Reconnecting With Meaning Through Contribution Without Losing Yourself

The Leader Who Solves Everything: How Constant Rescuing Weakens Judgment and Creates Dependence

Build Trust Before You Need It: How Repeated Conduct Prepares People for Uncertainty and Bad News

Orchestrating Impact: Conducting Life's Symphony with Purpose and Resilience

The Ancient Art of Not Reacting: Creating Space Between Trigger, Interpretation, Feeling, and Response

When Opportunity Doesn’t Look Convenient: Recognizing Openings That Require Rearrangement, Effort, or Uncertainty

The Metrics That Cannot Measure You: How to Resist Replacing Meaning with Numbers

The 8 Pillars of Leadership, New Rules for New Times: William Stanek’s Leadership Plan

What Season Are You In?: Identifying Whether This Season Calls for Emergence, Engagement, Release, or Restoration

The Decision You Keep Avoiding: How to Move When Waiting Feels Safer Than Choosing

Repair Is Not Returning: How to Resolve What Can Be Resolved Without Restoring the Former Relationship

Speak the Truth That Changes the Room: Preparing for a Consequential Conversation When Truth Has Real Costs

The Body That Changed the Plan: How to Revise Purpose When Health, Age, Energy, or Ability Changes

Courage Before Confidence: Taking Responsible Action Before You Feel Certain, Ready, or Fearless

Job Apocalypse & The Human Advantage: What Survives When Machines Do the Work

The Opinion You Borrowed Gradually: How Repetition and Belonging Make Inherited Beliefs Feel Self-Authored

Legacy Begins in Ordinary Days: Understanding Legacy as the Conduct and Influence Repeated Every Day

How to Disagree Without Disappearing: How to Remain Present When Values, Beliefs, or Needs Collide

Build a Habit You Can Keep on a Bad Day: Designing a Practice That Survives Low Energy, Stress, and Disruption

The Cost of a Yes You Don't Mean: How to Recognize What Every Commitment Quietly Displaces

Enough for Today: How to Define Completion Before Perfection Moves the Line

A Life Built to Begin Again: Creating Repeatable Practices for Renewal Before Crisis Arrives

The Good Life Is a Shared Life: Belonging, Reciprocity, and Why Individual Success Is Not the Whole Good Life

Success That Doesn’t Empty You: Pursuing Achievement Without Sacrificing Health, Meaning, or Connection

You Are Not a Productivity App: Why a Human Life Cannot Be Managed Like an Efficiency System

Make a Plan for the Part Where It Gets Hard: Anticipating Resistance, Setbacks, and Support Before Motivation Fades

A Legacy Made of Ordinary Days: How Repeated Conduct Teaches and Strengthens More Than Dramatic Gestures

Boundaries That Protect What Matters: Setting Limits That Protect Values Without Trying to Control Other People

Make the Decision No One Wants: How to Choose Among Imperfect Options and Own the Tradeoff

The Right to Be Unremarkable Today: Why an Ordinary Day Can Be Complete Without Becoming Impressive

The Procrastination Bargain: What Delay May Be Trying to Tell You

Control What Is Yours: Distinguishing Responsibility, Influence, and What Cannot Be Controlled

The Pause Before the Next Chapter: Living Responsibly in the Space Between an Ending and a Decision

When the Life You Planned Is Gone: Rebuilding Identity After Loss, Layoff, Illness, or an Unwanted Ending

You Are Not Behind: Releasing Borrowed Timelines and the Fear That Life Is Passing You By

The 8 Pillars of Leadership, Embracing Resilience for Success: William Stanek’s Leadership Plan

The Dream You Have Outgrown: How to Release an Aspiration Without Insulting the Self Who Needed It

Building Resilience Foundations: Lay the cornerstone for leadership that thrives under pressure.

FLOURISH: The Daily Abundance Practice for a Life of Wealth, Appreciation, and Fulfillment

Before the Machines Decide: Why the Future of AI Depends on the Intelligence Within Us

Let People Be Disappointed: How to Set a Reasonable Limit Without Controlling the Reaction

Gratitude Without Pretending: Practicing Honest Appreciation Without Denying Pain or Injustice

The Courage to Be a Beginner Again: How to Tolerate Uncertainty, Incompetence, and Visible Learning Later in Life

Purpose Without a Grand Calling: How to Build Meaning Without One Defining Mission

Leadership Before the Title: How to Use Influence Responsibly Before Anyone Gives You Authority

The Life You Are Already Living: How to Stop Postponing Meaning Until Conditions Finally Cooperate

Start Over Without Starting from Zero: Carrying Experience, Strengths, and Lessons Into a New Beginning

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 - Ratgeber für Administratoren

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - Ratgeber für Administratoren: Der praktische Begleiter für die tägliche Arbeit