Customer Reviews

Windows Server 2003 Weekend Crash Course

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I bought this book along with about 5 other much bigger books. Some had over 1200 - 1700 pages. This book only has about 400 pages and it makes it so easy to get you up to speed. Very nicely written. Very deliberate. No stupid "Dummies" humor. I love it! For instance, it explained Active Directory in only minutes and made it real easy. It also explained that if you wanted to go deeper - buy another book about it. So it's not a pretentious book. Very straight forward and to the point. I highly recommend this book if you already have reasonable Windows knowledge and quickly want to fill in the blanks for Windows Server 2003. Again - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Don Jones deserves applause for clearly covering all the major areas of the vast Windows Server 2003 package in this easy-to-handle book. It steers the middle course between the vast "Mastering <topic>" tomes, and the near-useless "Dummies" approach. It lives up to its promise of teaching you what you need to know to start setting up and managing a Windows 2003 server with about 15 hours of investment in reading time.

The only thing keeping it from getting a full five stars was that it went a bit too briskly over DNS, where I get the feeling a couple more pages of Jones' on-the-mark advice could have saved me some hours of troubleshooting. On the whole, however, a very useful book.

A good way to quickly catch up on Server management. About the only thing missing is Active Directory. Instead of just saying that its too big of a topic to cover, it would be nice to have at least a brief guideline to it.

This is a great introduction manual if you have never installed or used Windows Server 2003. I found it very easy to understand and it walked me through each step that would be of concern for a typical user.

Nice book for people needing to know the basic and how it works and where to find things. I keep it next to my advance book. This book well not go in to deeped. but it will get you started and expaines what it for and how it works.

I bought this book before I went and got my MCSE in 2003 and it did definatelly help. It's a great crash course and I recommend it to anyone. It doesn't substitute for experience however so don't think you can read this book and just run in and take the test.

If you buy a server with Windows 2003 Server R2 pre-installed, there is very little you need to do in order to get it up and running as a web/apps server. As such, the book, while very clear, has joined my legions of forgottable IT books. It's not bad, it's just not filled with enough info to make it a must have. I supposed it allowed me to feel better that I wasn't alone in my configuration.

I was looking for a book that would give me a crash course on what's new in Windows 2003, but this book is just a crash course for someone who doesn't know anything about Windows. Maybe that's what it's supposed to be, so I guess I just missed the point, but this one got returned.