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McSe: Implementing and Supporting Web Sites Using Microsoft Site Server 3 (Prentice Hall Ptr Mcse Certification Series)

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This book is terrible. The first chapter is a "marketing blurb" for the product. The next 3 chapters all discuss either how to install other products (NT server and SQL 7.0) or how to use NT's Backup feature. I looked ahead to the later chapters (5 and up) and found very short and vague explanations of technologies in Site Server. After 4 chapters (112 pages! ) I was still not even told how to start working with the application. I DO NOT RECCOMEND THIS BOOK PERIOD.

Do not buy this book! It was horribly written. There is no real technical information about Site Server anywhere in this book. There is no way you could possibly pass the test with this book, so don't even try. I passed using the on-line documentation and hands on experience. I am writing a letter to the publisher to express my complete dismay with this book for it's lack of indepthness and preparation for the exam that it says it has.

This is probably the worst MCSE Study Guide that I have ever purchased. Does the author even know about the subject? The examples are horrible and the content is horrible. People WILL NOT be able to pass the Site Server test after reading this book. This is the biggest waste of money. Please learn from my mistake and don't buy this book.

This is a sorry, sorry book. It am very sorry that I purchased it and still more sorry that I took the time to read it. 1. Despite Amazon's information, it is not 550 pages. (Nor is it paperback.) I was very disappointed with its lack of length. The 300 or so pages are not enough to teach Site Server, especially with this author, though 150 pages is enough OF this author. 2. The author gives very few examples and even fewer explanations of the technology or actions. Often the author instructs the reader to look elsewhere for more information or experience. For example, to learn more about Site Server's installation options, check out the CD. (sic) And the exercises he does provide are trivial, short, and useless. 3. The author uses incorrect names for some of the components of Site Server. 4. The author presents INCORRECT information about some aspects of this technology. At times, I had responses while reading such as, "you can't do that; that's not how it works." I have been awaiting an MSCE book on Site Server for some time. Amazon has promised this book for some time. I understand that this technology is new, but there are older books available that actually cover the material. If this author was in a hurry to get this book, it show. I jsut do not understand. How could it take so long to make such an empty book? This book is disappointing and disgusting and utterly useless. I could go on, but I will not use any more of your time. Amazon has at least one other book that is an excellent resource for Site Server. I am not sure how an editor let this one get by.

I found this book a completely useless waste of time. It will tell you all the wonderful things Site Server can do for you. It will not help you pass the exam.

Waste my money, waste my time. I buy it because it is the onlyone approved study guide and there is no book review at that time. Itis really horrible. How a 300 more pages training guide can make you pass Site Server exam? It is impossible. Even, it spends many pages talking about materials not Site Server related. How this book can be approved? Don't buy it anyway... END

I ordered this book online, I like being able to look at books before I purchase them and was not able to find this book at the local bookstore. So I ordered online and have been dissapointed ever since. If all reviews of a book are bad please take the advice of not ordering it!!!