Configuring Windows 2000 without Active Directory - Softcover

Syngress

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1928994547 ISBN 13: 9781928994541

Publisher: Syngress, 2001

Synopsis

Eliminate the hassles of Active Directory - install Windows 2000 without it!

Windows 2000 is undoubtedly a great product. In one year after its release, Microsoft have sold have sold 10 million licenses. System administrators are praising its impressive abilities to coordinate Internet, intranet, extranets, and management applications creating a complete technical infrastructure. However, there has been a noticeable amount of organizations that are avoiding one of the most talked about features of Windows 2000 - Active Directory. The industry buzz is that Active Directory (although a great product) is a burden to implement and install and is not compatible with non Windows products like Solaris, NetWare and Linux.

Configuring Windows 2000 WITHOUT Active Directory is a complete guide to installation and configuration of Windows 2000 (without Active Directory) for system administrators and network consultants. This book details not only the new features and functions of Windows 2000 but also how to integrate several features with existing Windows NT4 domains. The book does not cover the Active Directory function of Windows 2000.

• There is nothing like this book available, yet every Windows 2000 mail list, magazine and online forum shouts for his sort of coverage!

About this title

Review

In Configuring Windows 2000 WITHOUT Active Directory, Carol Bailey makes a persuasive argument that her title procedure isn't the logical equivalent of making a banana split without fruit. Declining to use the primary new feature of Windows 2000 removes a thick layer of complexity, she writes, and makes it much easier to integrate Windows 2000 (with its nice user interface, great hardware support and enhanced software compatibility) into a network that's made up mainly of machines running Windows NT or a Unix variant. Plus, she continues, it's always good policy to think twice before implementing any company's first version of anything as complex and mission-critical as an enterprise directory scheme.

After taking a chapter or two to explore reasons why Windows 2000 sans Active Directory might be a good idea, Bailey launches into a feature-by-feature exploration of Windows 2000's new features and how to configure them in environments in which Active Directory Services are not available. Her documentation of many features--power management on portable computers, for example--wouldn't have anything to do with Active Directory in any case, but even these sections explain their subjects well. You'll find them especially handy if you manage an organisation's inventory of computers, as the explanations frequently take that angle. Frequently asked questions sections at the end of each chapter make great reading, and may inform you of features and techniques of which you weren't aware. --David Wall

Topics covered: how to configure Windows 2000 Server and Professional in environments (especially centrally managed ones) in which Active Directory has not been implemented.

Edition details

• Publisher: Syngress
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1928994547
• ISBN 13: 9781928994541
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608