Windows 2000 Enterprise Networking (Network Professional's Library) - Softcover

Velte, Toby J; Velte, Anthony T

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072120495 ISBN 13: 9780072120493

Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2000

Synopsis

-- This is the only book on the market to introduce techniques of network analysis and optimization familiar only to users of other enterprise operating systems.-- Special editorial features include: -- Four new chapters and 200 pages of expanded content to cover Active Directory, migrating from Win 9x to Win 2000, and working in a mixed NOS environment.-- Network Blueprints printed on blue paper with handy visual references that show optimal network configurations for enterprises of varying sizes.

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Review:

Windows 2000 networks usually don't spring forth, whole, from the ether or anywhere else. They grow organically as Windows 2000 computers, and domains get grafted onto existing Windows NT 4 environments. In Windows 2000 Enterprise Networking, a pair of Microsoft- and Cisco-certified network experts share their knowledge of how the various flavours of Windows 2000 implement local and wide area network services, and how those implementations interact with older versions of Microsoft's network operating system. This is a Microsoft text all the way, and it will prove interesting to anyone who's in the process of migrating a Windows NT network to Windows 2000.

Advice complements explanations of how various aspects of Windows networks operate in this book. For example, in the discussion of how to associate multiple networking protocols with a Remote Access Service (RAS) connection, the authors recommend being careful to give IPX support only to those clients that need to access Novell services, thus saving overhead on other clients. In addition, they like to explain concepts (often with the aid of technical drawings and flow diagrams) rather than give precise recipes to follow--a welcome vote of confidence in readers' abilities. It is also nice that coverage goes beyond the usual Active Directory and user management subjects to include Quality of Service (QoS) on Windows 2000 networks, something that is not well covered elsewhere. --David Wall

Synopsis:

This work covers the emergence of Windows 2000 - a network operating system from Microsoft that will replace Windows NT. It includes directory services, new security features and administrative enhancements that should increase its adoption at the corporate enterprise level.

About this edition

• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0072120495
• ISBN 13: 9780072120493
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 708