The goal of this title is to give you, the system administator everything you might possibly need in a Windows 2000 reference book. As one reviewer of the previous edition stated "If you are looking for a one-stop shop, here it is. After reading through so many NT books, I chose this one for its depth and breadth. Given that they are all the same, this Gold Monster at least gets the details right." It is the benchmark of references available for the Windows 2000 Server. The only book in the industry that provides you with detailed answers to day-to-day administration problems and tasks. Real-world implementations are key in helping system administrators discover the most viable solutions for your environments. This book extends your knowledge base to include Windows 2000, and how it integrates with other Microsoft BackOffice products. It shows administrators how to manage, troubleshoot, and fix problems that are specific heterogeneous Windows networks.

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Very poor - 2001-09-25
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This book is mainly useless. If you want to know how each piece of the MS server 2000 works, just look at the help files. This book simply repeats that. It does NOT tell you how the pieces work together. For example, if you wanted to set up a DNS server and Web server that work together on the same computer(as is a common task for a lot of people) this book fails. Most books are like this one. BOTTOM LINE - They tell you how to install a piece of the os along with a vague descrition of that piece and move on to the next topic. This is ALREADY in the MS help files and mostly uselss.

Very Thorough! - 2001-01-10
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Believe it or not, I actually sat down and read most of this 1,800 page book. I was trying to get a feel for Windows 2000 Server, and I thought the bigger the book the better. It was a great place to start! The chapters are written so that the concepts are easily undersandable, and words and terms are defined in case you aren't familiar with them. There are lots of diagrams and screen shots to assist you in understanding how Active Directory works and is designed. The installation section is very thorough, and there are chapters to help you set up and use DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Active Directory, and understand trusts. It seems like a one-stop shop for anyone who needs a thorough introduction to the Windows 2000 Server operating system. It's sort of a how-to in a sense, and even details the differences in installing clean or performing an upgrade. I found the sections on security to be extrememly helpful, since there are so many new security features and protocols available since the release of NT 4.0. I'd suggest this book as a great first read for new network administrators on a 2000 network, and also as a handy desk reference for everything listed above and then some. The book also covers creating users and groups, monitoring the network, IIS, and IPSec.

just an intro - 2001-07-31
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This book has some good information and a couple of good indexes and lists of things you don't find like login script variables and a couple of good appendixes, but it's not as thorough as it should be considering its size. there is a lot of repitition including direct cutting and pasting of small sections. Also it doesn't have nearly the amount of Active Directory info I expected.

It's just an introduction to win2k with a couple of nice bonuses, but it's not enough to get out there and set up a network with.

Not useful. - 2003-03-04
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This book is rather useless. The style of writing is boring: it's like reading a phone book. There is no explanation on "why" this feature works. It focuses on "how" to do this or that. More like a robot cookbook.

This is the book to have for supporting Windows 2000 - 2001-08-21
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Excellent! This is the book to have for supporting Windows 2000 I bought Karanjit's NT 4.0 server book and loved it, I have to say that this book is even better. If you can only afford one book on Windows 2000 server, this is the one to have!

Jose Medeiros, Instructor - San Jose City College, MCP+I, MCSE, MCT, Vice President- NT Engineering Association,...

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