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Title: The Ultimate Windows 2000 System Administrator's Guide by Robert Williams, Mark Walla ISBN: 0201615800 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3
Rating: 5
Summary: Newbie gives a thumbs up
Comment: First of all, I have no training in A+ or MCSE and I'm not a sysadmin. I was really just looking for a book that completely covered Windows 2000 Professional and Server so that I could set up my home LAN properly (5 machines), and to be able to get some ASP coding done. The book is very well written (as I look at my sagging shelf of telephone-book-sized doorstops, ... each written so poorly you'd think English may have been the author's third or fourth language...) and great for a newcomer. Some of the issues went right over my head, but that's ok...like I said, I'm new. Also I learned a lot about the operating system in general. One would think that after using a computer for years Windows is Windows...which it definitely is not. Lots of attention to the OS as a whole. Good chapter(s) on Active Directory. Some good stuff on basic networking, too. You get it all with this book...light weight to hard-core.
All you anti-Active-Directory NT whiners out there, if I can do it, so can you! Took me about two weeks of reading, planning, studying, and executing my network...which is now on an Active Directory-based domain ... Just go buy it. Thank you Williams and Walla!
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW ... BEST ACTIVE DIRECTORY AND SECURITY BOOK AVAILABLE
Comment: OK, I have never found a technical book that answers all my questions but this one comes as close as any I have seen. My concern is Windows 2000 security and managing that beast know as Active Directory. Both of these issues have dominated the press as the downside of Windows 2000. Fortunately, this work positively addresses the issues heads-on. The book reviews the major issues in an easy to understand format and then provides proactive actions for effective implementation. While I have several specialized books that address Active Directory and security issues, this book frankly does a better job than these specialized texts. This also is the only book that integrates the concepts. I only wish I had bought this heavy duty book earlier. Hopefully the authors have a Windows .NET book in the works.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not what I had hoped
Comment: After reading all these other great reviews I bought this book. That was 6 months ago and while I haven't read the book cover to cover I've used it as a reference on many different areas of Win 2000.
I found just about every time I needed an answer to something, this book just didn't go deep enough to answer my question. To be fair Windows 2k is vast and any one book which tries to cover it all will miss something. Most of the stuff in this book you could learn on your own or get from the help files. The whole reason I bought the book was to explain things that were hard to find answers to not basic explanations that you could get anywhere. I give it three stars b/c it is well written and I haven't found any typos or errors, but the value of the content is negligible.
My advice is to buy a book on the topic you need help with and stay away from books that try to answer it all.
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