Are there any good books about .NET and: security, configuration, logging, health monitoring, globalization / localization, resources / satellite assemblies, etc.
I learnt some .NET from this book. But I am not sure it is the best book, but it is a big book so it covers a lot on .NET both the things you want to know (security, configuration) and things you don't want to know (C#, WPF and ASP.NET).
Maybe a study book for this exam would be the right thing. I have not read the book, but I have taken the exam, and it deals with the things you want to know.
don't know the book but i know ms Enterprise Library, is one of the tool to solve some of these concerns.
I'd recommend e-books or articles devoted to interview questions. They contain some useful information, not too deep but very practical. I want to recommend the book that I downloaded two years ago from http://questpond.com/ but I couldn't find it there now.
I'll have to recommend an unpublished book: Programming WCF Services 3rd Ed by Juval Löwy.
I took a one-day class on the subject with Juval recently, and here is a quote from my blog written the same day: "all complex plumbing such as security, concurrency, logging, fault tolerance, and so forth is given to you for free".
In regards to your NOTs; if you ask Juval, he'd say that WCF is not an application framework, but rather a replacement for OO and .NET as we know it.