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"This is a great book! It provides real-world knowledge that would otherwise take many years of experience to accumulate." --Tim Hill, Windows NT MVP and author of Windows NT Shell Scripting "Buy this book before the Microsoft tech support people buy them all up!" --Mark Minasi, author of the best-selling Mastering Windows NT Server 4 Windows NT is rapidly becoming the enterprise server and desktop operating system of choice. The highly anticipated Windows 2000 upgrade will enhance the current feature set, but it will also increase the complexity of working with this important operating system. Using The Windows NT and Windows 2000 Answer Book, administrators, developers, and users will be able to quickly and effectively find answers, solve problems, and get the best performance possible from Windows NT. John Savill offers answers to more than eight hundred common Windows NT and Windows 2000 questions, all carefully organized in an accessible format for quick reference. The Windows NT and Windows 2000 Answer Book is a significantly expanded and more detailed version of the author's highly regarded Windows NT FAQ (www.ntfaq.com), cited by Microsoft's On-Line Developer Network (MSDN) as the most comprehensive and current Web-based Windows NT resource of its kind. This book addresses a broad range of topics, from the simple to the complex: installation, system and desktop configuration, the Registry, recovery and backups, network issues, Internet topics, e-mail, file systems, administration, security, hardware, and much more. The use of concrete explanations and real-world examples helps get you to the heart of what you need to know in order to install the system properly, configure it to serve the organization's needs, and keep it running smoothly. Readers will find solutions to such important questions as: *What is new in Windows 2000? *What is the Active Directory? *Can I change a PDC/BDC into a stand-alone server? *How do I create a DHCP Relay Agent? *How can I create a RAS Connection Script? *How do I connect my Exchange server to an SMTP server? These are just a few examples of the wealth of information you will discover in this invaluable resource. Whether you are looking for a specific answer or just browsing to gain insight and practical techniques, no enterprise system administrator, developer, or user working with Windows NT can afford to be without this book. 0201606364B04062001
Amazon.com Review
The Windows NT and Windows 2000 Answer Book provides hundreds of FAQ-style questions and answers to common (and obscure) administration problems in the Windows family of operating systems. As a guide to real-world troubleshooting, this book will be a nearly indispensable resource for Windows administrators.
The most appealing feature of this book is that it contains material that the enterprise Windows administrator needs on a daily basis. Besides expert tips, the book refuses to ignore obvious questions about installing, configuring, and optimizing Windows NT/2000. In these pages, you will find dozens of tips on setting up Windows (including networking options), with full coverage of procedures for adding users, groups, and domains. Sections on service packs give invaluable advice on which ones are available and how to apply them correctly. Besides the basics, the book also shows off today's back-end tools required for the corporate intranet (including material on Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol [DHCP], Domain Name System [DNS], and Remote Access Service [RAS]). The section on using and administering redundant array of independent disks (RAID) disk arrays is also a standout here, as are the numerous tips on customizing (and often disabling) Windows 2000 desktop features for complete control of the desktops on your enterprise. Though this information is in a FAQ format, many questions get comprehensive treatment (and several pages of text) along with screenshots at certain points to help you through some of the more important administrative tasks. With its mix of breadth and depth for the real-world Windows administrator, The Windows NT and Windows 2000 Answer Book can prove to be a real time-saving resource for installing and troubleshooting Windows on the enterprise. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: Windows 98, Windows NT and Windows 2000 administration, configuration, installation, troubleshooting, networking, backups, utilities, IP, DHCP, DNS, RAS, RAID, and IIS.
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