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.
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