Review
Automation for its own sake ranks high on the list of Bad Things, and one of your goals as an information technology expert should be to avoid needless deployment of resources. Windows 2000 Reducing TCO Little Black Book explains how up-front expenses are just one part information systems costs. Continuing maintenance and administration work can contribute more to Windows networks' Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and this book has some ideas about how to use good design and some administrative tools to keep TCO down. Specifically, it discusses Microsoft's Zero Administration initiative for Windows (ZAW), which is the company's plan for minimising ongoing expenses associated with the upkeep of Windows networks.
It's generally accepted that minimising TCO is important in designing networks, and Little Black Book does a fine job of explaining TCO-minded design of enterprise-spanning networks. It also aptly discusses some of Microsoft's tools for reducing administrative overhead. Still, this book is largely just another Windows 2000 administration book, albeit a good one. It presents procedures for you to follow and backs them up with some reference material and some text that explains concepts. TCO-minded administrators will like the chapters on WinINSTALL LE (a tool for deploying packages across a network) but probably will wish for more on Systems Management Server (SMS). For coverage of that product, look at Rod Trent's Microsoft SMS Installer. --David Wall
Topics covered: Windows 2000 network administration--with some emphasis on minimising Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)--designing Active Directory systems for maximum efficiency, setting up Organisational Units for easy management in the future, and WinINSTALL LE.
About the Author
Robert Simanski (Herndon, Virginia) is the president and owner of Your Publications Pro!, a publications and computer consulting business, and he conducts seminars and provides member help line services for the Capital User Group. Robert used to be the network administrator of a newsletter publisher with 100 users on three networks. He is the author of Inside Microsoft and Inside Intel and the co-author of Special Edition Using Excel 97 and Special Edition Using the Internet.
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