Mastering Windows 2000 Server 3e +CD - Hardcover

Minasi, M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0782128726 ISBN 13: 9780782128727

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Synopsis

Windows 2000 Server is the successor to Windows NT Server. This text provides coverage of the architecture, features, specifications, and applications in Windows 2000. Included is information on Active Directory, system policies, registry, and Windows Terminal Server. The book contains insider information, undocumented workarounds and warnings, plus network essentials: how to achieve a successful upgrade; initial installation; or roling implementation in an existing enterprise network.

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Review

Based on NT, Windows 2000 is nevertheless a different beast. The size of Mastering Windows 2000 Server reflects the many major new features--such as Active Directory, disk quotas, Distributed File System (Dfs) and Plug 'n' Play--as well as the many new management tools and interfaces you have to learn to administer it.

The general approach is to explain what a feature is for, how it works and how to implement and administer it--complete with caveats where appropriate. For example, the new MMC (administration centre) could be a lot better, and quotas--we discover--apply to users, not directories.

Mastering Windows 2000 Server is a fascinating read, helped by clear explanations and a logical topic order. Installation is followed by the new management tools and interfaces so you can find your way around and Active Directory follows a huge new chapter on DNS, which underlies it but was less important in NT. Even better, the book is on the included searchable CD. Interestingly, for appropriate subjects such as Active Directory, the authors provide different sections for newcomers to Win2000 and existing NT experts. This makes it easier for both groups to come to terms with major paradigm shifts.

Microsoft should consider including Mastering Windows 2000 Server with every copy of the software. It's far more useful than the paper, local or online guides provided. In fact, buy it before you buy the software. --Steve Patient

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: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0782128726
• ISBN 13: 9780782128727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1872