Mastering Windows 2000 Server 2e - Hardcover

Minasi, M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0782127746 ISBN 13: 9780782127744

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Synopsis

This reference guide to Windows 2000 Server covers architecture, features, specifications, and applications in Win2K. It includes Active Directory, System Policies, Registry, Windows Terminal Server, and more, showing how to achieve a successful upgrade or initial installation.

About this title

Review

Mark Minasi rocks the casbah as far as Microsoft's enterprise operating systems are concerned--his books have been best-sellers for a long time, and deservedly so. Minasi's latest offering, Mastering Windows 2000 Server, upholds his tradition of technical accuracy and thoroughness presented in a shell of pedagogical soundness. This heavy, hardback volume goes far beyond the usual feature-by-feature documentation. In addition to the how-to material, the book includes details (roughly, oh, a zillion of them) that clearly derive from experimentation and an exhaustive study of Microsoft's support databases.

A typical example of Mastering's thoroughness (for which Minasi's three co-authors deserve credit as well) is its explanation of how to restrict access to programs on Windows NT 4 clients. (They're covered in these pages on the logic that homogeneous Windows 2000 networks are rare.) In that section, you will find instructions for locking down programs via the Registry, but also a discussion of ways to get around Registry restrictions (via CMD.EXE, macro languages, and so on). Almost everything gets that kind of attention, and administrators will appreciate being able to locate the information they want (in the depth they want it) with just a quick index scan. Users of Macintoshes and Novell clients, look here for the help you need in getting machines to interoperate properly. --David Wall

Topics covered:

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and its applications in organisational networks
• All aspects of the operating system and its connectivity
• Hardware
• Groups and users
• Folder sharing
• All sorts of networking subjects
• Heterogeneous networks
• Windows Terminal Services
• Internet services

From the Back Cover

The ONLY Windows 2000 Resource You Need Now With a New Emphasis on Security!

The #1 choice of Windows administrators, Mastering Windows 2000 Server gives you all the conceptual and practical information you need to get the most out of Microsoft s flagship network operating system. This is the premier resource for configuring, administering, and tuning Windows 2000 Server as part of a corporate enterprise network. You can depend on it for clear, authoritative instruction in hundreds of techniques that will make your work easier and your job more secure.

Coverage Includes:

• Installing Windows 2000
• Configuring IP, DHCP, WINS, and DNS to achieve the right foundation for your network
• Building and managing domains with Active Directory
• Controlling hundreds, even thousands, of workstations with group policies
• Prebuilding and delivering complete workstation images with Remote Installation Services
• Deploying applications throughout the enterprise with Microsoft Installer
• Understanding advanced DNS design and troubleshooting to keep your domains secure and running
• Improving network resource accessibility with Dfs, Web folders, shared printers, and Web printing
• Using Windows 2000 to share Internet Connections
• Tuning and monitoring your network
• Securing your network with new coverage of IPSec, certificates, security templates, simplified hotfix installations, auditing, and more
• Offering Web content with Internet Information Services 5

Real Solutions to Real Challenges
If improving the real–world performance of your network is the bottom line, this book delivers the goods. It shows you how to design and manage a multiple–platform network, build a Windows–based intranet, find the right data backup strategy, prevent and recover from disasters, and much more. There s no end to what you ll accomplish with practical, step–by–step instruction from the expert who has actually done it all on live networks!

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0782127746
• ISBN 13: 9780782127744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1632