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Terminal Services for Microsoft Windows Server 2003: Advanced Technical Design Guide (Advanced Technical Design Guide series)

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... and I've read quite a few of those! I bought the book after running Terminal Server 2003 for a while, and immediately discovered better ways to implement printing and user profiles (flex profiles seem to be exactly what we needed). Explanation of licensing was also very useful.

What I like most:
- very concise and accurate presentation, often with flow diagrams;
- whenever there're several methods to do something, authors always discuss advantages and disadvantages of each method;
- real-life examples;
- references to low-cost or free third-party tools;
- good style and occasional humor!

I would highly recommend this book to specialists designing and implementing Terminal Services on Windows 2003 Server.

Another great book from Brian. I have both of his MetaFrame XP books and this fits right into the collection. I dont use straight Terminal Server for many servers but this book seems to be able to help with both my Citrix environment and TS environment.

Easy to read, good flow, doesn't sound like some boring, preachy lecture.

I've been a fan of Brian's books for a while. I bought this book cause a customer of ours was thinking about ditching Citrix and going pure TS, and I wanted to see how realistic that was. It turns out there's a lot more you can do with Terminal Server than I thought!

Like Brian's other books, this one is well laid-out, methodical, and covers everything you need to know. I highly recommend it!

I might be a bit biased since I am a customer of Ron's but this is a solid technical book. Ron and Brian write like they are talking to you. Explaining the way things work and don't, without a bunch of boring 3 page explanations for the tiniest of things that you should know anyway, yet they still seem to jump into details of a system at just the right time.

Best chapters?: Printing, the User environment, Perfromance optimization and high availability. Great resources.

I have found this book to be very informative and helpful. It goes quite in depth on subjects related to terminal services and terminal server licensing. It also gives great ideas on how to make everything "work together".

The one major flaw with the book is the editing and proofing. I don't recall ever reading a book, technical or not, and finding so many obvious spelling errors, sometimes 4 and 5 errors in a single paragraph.

In a technical book spelling should not be an issue - it undermines the feeling of trust for a book. I cross-checked much of the content where I wanted to be sure and found it to be quite accurate, but it is still disturbing to see that frequency of errors and my 3 star rating reflects this.

This is an excellent book written by one of the leaders of the field. Brian Madden's Terminal Services for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 should be required reading for anyone involved in deploying or maintaining a Windows 2003 Terminal Server infrastructure.
While there are a lot of Citrix books on the market that go into great detail on deploying thin-client based solutions with that product, I find the general quality on MS Terminal Server (w/out the Citrix layer) somewhat lacking. This book goes into great depth on configuring and deploying solutions based exclusively on Windows Terminal Server. Madden also includes coverage of some standard IT-related topics which are not exclusively related to Terminal Services but any practitioner will encounter while deploying a TS based solution - such as login scripts and printing.
I highly recommend this book
Regards,
Meredith Shaebanyan

Nice job for introduce to advanced functions and options on LDAP.
Not imprescindible for experienced users, but perfet structure, nice design and a perfectly description of all functions and advanced options.

Stock Windows Terminal Services, without the Citrix licensing and complexity additions, is a feature-rich and capable architecture. This is absolutely the best book written to explain the intricacies (including licensing) of this product. The explanations are detailed but also written in a matter-of-fact plain English that is easy to understand. Highly recommended.

This book answers some very important questions on your install that you didn't even know you had. There were a couple of things in here that saved me countless hours of beating my head against a wall because of how a certain function worked in regards to a firewall, for instance.

After this book arrived, I took a quick glance at it and knew this was the one. I told my boss that I was going to need a "reading day" for this one - something unheard of - a day to just do research. Paid for the book and the day in spades. The money saved was an entire server that I just am not going to be able to use, so I don't have to buy it! That's big. I was going to have 3 servers, now just 2.

Mostly, it told me I was on the right track, but showed me where simple things could make a big difference up front - before my first server even arrived.