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Implementing Directory Services

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I found this book pretty disappointing. There is way too much unstructured text; often it's not clear why one chapter follows another. It's too technical for a management's perspective and has too much abstract blah-blah for a techical perspective. It doesn't really qualify as a beginner's book (not enough background information, real-life or imaginary problems directory infrastructures are supposed to solve), but doesn't have enough specifics for an advanced reader.

I think there is still quite a lot of useful information in this book; however, a reader's patience is tested to the limits if he tries to extract it from this mass of text. The author could use some more time in extracting the useful bits and thus shortening the book (and making it a bit easier to carry too!)

In additions there are faults in this book's layout. The figures have no titles (it seems they are named with filenames they were stored in). There are also typos and grammatical mistakes (then instead of than etc.). All in all, nice idea, way too little work put into production.

I was totally amazed by the author's capability to write 700 pages of text and still have nothing to say. People that would normally buy books on directory services want to increase their knowledge in that particular area. If that is your objective, don't buy this book because it is very unlikely that you will learn anything new. I don't consider myself as having a strong technical background, and did not learn much.

This book is a great place to start for anyone wanting to get to grips with the implementation of directory services. It may not hold all the information you will need, but it gives a balanced view of the issues, the solutions and the technologies. Just what I needed; a great place to start....thanks Archie.

This book has everything you need to know about the current state of directories. Also great how to build an enterprise meta directory solution. Now that I have the road map my only problem is time <sigh> Thanks Archie for a find book that is easy to read.

This book is probably one of the best books you can find out there on Metedirectory services. Good explination on different solutions for companies on thier data infrustructure.