Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 Resource Kit (IT Professional) [Paperback]

Microsoft Corporation (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 28, 2001 | Series: IT Professional

Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 is designed to enhance the way any small business communicates and collaborates, both internally and through the Web. Roll out, support, and optimize this server-based platform for small businesses with the help of those who know the technology best -- the Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 development team. "Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 Resource Kit" delivers 800+ pages of authoritative technical information plus essential tools on CD-ROM -- all designed to help maximize the productivity of your Microsoft Small Business Server system while minimizing overhead and support costs. This official resource kit covers vital subjects such as planning and deployment, administration and maintenance, performance tuning and optimization, integration and cross-platform interaction, security and troubleshooting, disaster recovery strategies, and migration and upgrading. Appendixes discuss specialized topics such as networking basics, customization, extensibility options, deployment with Microsoft Office 2000, and TAPI solutions. The accompanying CD includes the complete searchable text of the book, white papers and video presentations about Microsoft Small Business Server topics, and tools, utilities, and scripts for adding users in batches, setup integration, monitoring modern status, customization, fax and performance monitoring, and more.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Designed to provide businesses of fewer than 50 employees--which is to say, businesses without dedicated information systems staffs--with capable and reliable back-end information services, Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 has a potentially huge market. If you're a consultant who caters to that market, or someone who aspires to be one, you need to have Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 Resource Kit on hand and refer to it often. Like all Microsoft Resource Kits, this one ships with a CD-ROM that's enormously valuable. It contains an assortment of utilities--dozens of them--for use with Small Business Server, including one that locks floppy disk drives for unprivileged users, another that shows the active Kerberos tickets, and a third with which you can make any application run as a service. They're tools, and there are a lot of them. The odds are strong that you'll find some of them relevant to your situation.

Don't treat this solely as a software package, though. The authors--the documentation team at Microsoft--have created a definitive document on Small Business Server 2000 as it's meant to be installed and configured. The book is task-oriented (for example, there's a stepped procedure on how to create a NetWare Gateway account user) and generally clear, though the volume of documentation in this package is less graphical than some other late-model products in this series. Keep it on hand for reference during installation and reconfiguration. --David Wall

Topics covered: Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 recommended practices, standard procedures, troubleshooting, and reference material. A CD-ROM contains lots of diagnostic and configuration utilities for Small Business Server 2000 and for Windows 2000 generally.

Product Details

• Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (March 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735612528
• ISBN-13: 978-0735612525
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,340,826 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't rely on it..., June 16, 2001

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diana notter - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 Resource Kit (IT Professional) (Paperback)

This long-awaited follow up to the 4.5 Resource Kit has been a great disappointment. (Don't take my word for it - go look at the comments in the SBS2000 newsgroup)

I'm not into denigrating other people's work, but this book really doesn't have any plus points.

To be brief: - it fails to explain essential concepts, with each chapter having hardly any logical connection with those preceding it - the text is peppered with terms and acronyms which go undefined - there are few graphic examples or practical walkthroughs - what walkthroughs there are (e.g. for setup wizards) do little beyond provide hard copy screenshots of the SBS dialog boxes - the graphic layout is poor - oversized headlines made me suspect that, in the absence of decent text, the editor resorted to padding out the book.

I felt as if whoever did edit the book had no knowledge of network computing, never mind SBS.

Sorry, but this is a lemon.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Major Disappointment!!!, September 4, 2001

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Phillip G Justice Jr (Lusby, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 Resource Kit (IT Professional) (Paperback)

As an Independant Consultant and Solution Provider, Small Business Server was an ideal candidate to add to our arsenal services being offered to our small business owners. To support it we would need some quality technical resources available to us to continue to provide high quality support and I was hoping the Resource Kit would do it. I was complete let down by it's lack of in-depth technical information and seemingly lack of direction. It is nothing more than a product overview. Thumbs down on this one!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I don't know what this book 's target is., June 2, 2002

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Alan Tsui (Hong Kong) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 Resource Kit (IT Professional) (Paperback)

I have finished this book with only 2.5 days.
I feel very disapointed because this book mainly tell you what the features are avaliable in the Small Business Server 2000.
This book hasn't tell you how to use them, how to deploy them.

The style of the book is many titles in a chapter, but there is only a few words talking the title.
I feel that the author is saying like "There is Remote Access Service with SBS 2000. Then bye bye."

This book is too details for manager/decision maker, but not enough for administrator, so I don't know what this book for.