Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit - Softcover

Microsoft Press; Microsoft Corporation

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572318082 ISBN 13: 9781572318083

Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S., 2000

Synopsis

Deploy, manage, and optimize Windows 2000 Professional with expertise from those who know the technology best - the Microsoft Windows 2000 product team. This Resource Kit packs over 1700 pages of detailed technical information and more than 200 timesaving tools and utilities on CD. It's everything you need to maximize the performance and reliability of your business desktops - and help reduce your ownership and support costs.

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Review

If you install or support Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit is near-essential. It is worth having for the utilities alone, with over 200 tools and scripts for management and problem solving on the supplied CD. A few examples include utilities for registry backup and restore, process viewing and management, memory analysis and monitoring, a handy network clipboard, and the ability to lock floppy drives as a precaution against viruses.

Then, of course, there is the book. With over 1750 pages this is value for money but not armchair reading. It is divided into several parts, covering deployment and installation, system configuration, network configuration, performance monitoring and troubleshooting. There are chapters on inter-operating with Netware, Unix and IBM systems. Each topic is covered in-depth, so for instance you get 60 pages on file systems, mostly devoted to NTFS (NT File System). If the worst comes to the worst and the system crashes, the chapter on Windows 2000 stop messages tells you how to interpret the dreaded blue screens. Another vital topic is security, and here there is full information about user rights and permissions, the Encrypted File System, public key security and how to protect portable computers. There is also a detailed index and glossary.

This is a reference book and you are unlikely to read it cover-to-cover. The presentation is dry, and it is emphatically not a book aimed at end-users. Its value is in providing a single comprehensive resource, including information not found in typical third-party guides. --Tim Anderson

From the Publisher

Comprehensive product information and tools, straight from the Microsoft product groups, to help you optimize system performance and reduce support costs. Timely expertise and must-have tools delivered straight from the source—the Windows 2000 product group.

Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional Resource Kit

Provides essential print reference plus tools for maximizing a Windows 2000 Professional installation Features software tools and utilities on CD-ROM exclusive from Microsoft Offers exhaustive information on deployment and administration issues; also serves as an excellent resource for pre-deployment planning and decision-making.

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional is the premier desktop operating system for businesses of all sizes and is designed to replace Windows 95 as the standard business desktop. Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, the next release of the best-selling server operating system, is the only multipurpose server operating system designed to connect, run and manage every part of the digital business.When combined, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server provide a platform that lowers the total cost of ownership, enables a new generation of distributed applications and provides the infrastructure for companies to build their digital nervous systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572318082
• ISBN 13: 9781572318083
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1767