Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows 2000 Server [Paperback]

Roger Jennings (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0789721228 | ISBN-13: 978-0789721228 | Publication Date: October 16, 2000

Special Edition Using Windows 2000 Server provides detailed advice on upgrading from Windows NT 4.0 and NetWare and start-from-scratch installations. This new edition increases coverage of telecommunications topics such as the Internet, Intranet, and extranet issues, enterprise-scale directory architecture, client services, and application installation. This book separates steps from theory to provide you with not only a reference to accomplish your work quickly, but also how to do it well and meet the needs of your company's specifications. Coverage is focused on server topics. "In the Real World" case studies at the end of each chapter provide insight to issues facing IT managers, Web production staff, and system administrators when upgrading to Windows 2000 Server.

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Special Edition Using Windows 2000 Server provides detailed advice on upgrading from Windows NT 4.0 and NetWare and start-from-scratch installations. This new edition increases coverage of telecommunications topics such as the Internet, Intranet, and extranet issues, enterprise-scale directory architecture, client services, and application installation. This book separates steps from theory to provide you with not only a reference to accomplish your work quickly, but also how to do it well and meet the needs of your company's specifications. Coverage is focused on server topics. "In the Real World" case studies at the end of each chapter provide insight to issues facing IT managers, Web production staff, and system administrators when upgrading to Windows 2000 Server.

About the Author

Roger Jennings is the author of Que's top-selling SE Using Access (five editions) and PE Using Access 97, plus SAMS Database Developer's Guide with Visual Basic (three editions.) Roger has more than 30 years of operating system experience, ranging from Digital PDP-16s to IBM and Hitachi mainframes. He's been a member of the technical beta test team for every version of Windows NT, SQL Server 4.21 and later, Microsoft Transaction and Message Queue Servers, and all other BackOffice components.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1392 pages
• Publisher: Que (October 16, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789721228
• ISBN-13: 978-0789721228
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,430,017 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm the principal consultant of OakLeaf Systems, a Windows Azure MVP and the author of 30+ books on Microsoft operating systems (Windows NT and Windows 2000 Server), Windows Azure, databases (SQL Server, SQL Azure and Access), .NET data access, Web services and InfoPath 2003. The books have more than 1.25 million English copies in print and have been translated into 20+ languages.

My latest books are "Microsoft Access 2010 In Depth" (12th edition) for Que Publishing and "Cloud Computing with the Microsoft Azure Services Platform" for Wiley/Wrox.

I'm also the curator of the OakLeaf Systems (http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com) and Access In Depth (http://acccessindepth.blogspot.com) blogs, a contributing editor of 1105 Media's "Visual Studio Magazine" and a frequent contributor to their "Redmond Developer News" newsletter.

OakLeaf's Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Web service won the charter Microsoft .NET Best award for horizontal XML Web service solutions.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A readable technical introduction to Windows 2000, December 28, 2000

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This review is from: Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (Paperback)

This book seems to be targeted at Network Architects who are designing LANS or WANS, UNIX users who are interested in what Server 2000 has to offer and others who are interested in this area. As always with QUE books there is a list near the front of who they consider the potential audience to be. It is fairly advanced and does concentrate on the Server and networking side of Windows 2000. Windows 2000 does require planning before rolling out but for those who do especially in larger more complex networks there are some very nice management paybacks.

Personally I use operating systems but need to know what to recommend and why to clients who are putting in new systems.

For me this Que book was useful in that it gave me the major relevant differences between Windows NT 4.0 and Server 2000. The parts I found of most interest where the security polices which were quite well explained, and Active Directory for me the most important part of Windows 2000. It gathers up information that readers require to get through the Microsoft CSE exams in a page or so at the end of each chapter so for those of us who really are interested in the concepts rather than the keystrokes to pass the exam can simply skip them.

There is a detailed discussion about RAID, file encryption and compression which may change the way you set up the hard drives on a fast server. You should be aware though that the security included in Windows 2000 is not the ultimate level and there are a number of issues outside the scope of this book for those who have high security requirements. I was pleased to see a discussion of backup, one area that is often overlooked.

The book is designed to highlight the new features from Windows NT 4.0, it contains relevant web page links, and cautions where an action might lead to unexpected or unpredictable results. I found the tips from the author which describe shortcuts and alternative approaches useful especially as they seem to be based on experience.

In summary a useful book to get an overview of Windows 2000, other books are required to delve into each topic in depth.