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Summary: Read it to really understand GP
Review: An excellent book that teaches group plocy from the ground up, and well into the advanced levels. I especially like end of chapter summeries of tips and practices to avoid the pitfalls of Group Policy hell.
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Summary: Riveting Reading Material
Review: Beautiful prose and wit mark the style of this authors ramblings as it discuss the meanings and sub textual facts and fictions related to the Windows 2000 Group Policy areana.
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Summary: Excellent Guide To Create GPO's
Review: Being in the Industry for 3 years, self taught Windows 2000 and Certified in NT4 and 2000, I never really understood how to utilize GPO's. Mark goes into great details in his examples and provides the fundamentals of GPO. He takes you step by step how to prepare, create and assign the GPO and explains the effects of each. I am now able to Deploy Office XP to our Firm and provide updates to the managed install whenever necessary by the click of a button. GPO is not something that is easy to learn without experience, but this book provides a lot of help and making sure you are successful with your first deployment.
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Summary: Excellent Guide To Create GPO's
Review: Being in the Industry for 3 years, self taught Windows 2000 and Certified in NT4 and 2000, I never really understood how to utilize GPO's. Mark goes into great details in his examples and provides the fundamentals of GPO. He takes you step by step how to prepare, create and assign the GPO and explains the effects of each. I am now able to Deploy Office XP to our Firm and provide updates to the managed install whenever necessary by the click of a button. GPO is not something that is easy to learn without experience, but this book provides a lot of help and making sure you are successful with your first deployment.
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Summary: Saved my fanny...
Review: Coming from a Novell background, I knew the joys of Directory based software distribution, User Policies and the like; but was in a bit of a lurch when it came to Microsoft's version of NDS and ZENWorks.Happily, this book didn't let me down and spelled things out very clearly and very simply. This isn't a simple re-hash of the documentation! This is like listening to a pal tell you about the technology. The only problem was they left the author's picture off the back and instead gave us Minasi's picture instead... hey Mark, share some face space, eh? :-) I am still working myway through the sections on RIS services, but the group policies and Intellimirror (esp. redirected folders) is good stuff -- it even has some handy VBScript examples and extra-useful sample ADM files to chew on as well. When they ask who wrote the book on Intellimirror, there's only one answer: Jeremy Moskowitz.
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Summary: Group Policies Kick Butt
Review: Group Policies Kick Butt and Jeremy is the authority! Windows 2000 and the office suite were deployed to one group - 40 users in about 2 hours! The upgrade to Windows 2000 from Windows98/nt is worth it just to get group policies. Jeremy writes in a concise, easy to read format that has the answers to just about any Policy you can think of. Worth every penny.
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Summary: GPO Made Easy
Review: Group Policy is not as easy as it looks. Even the most advanced Active Directory Sys Admin will need to look at some sort of guide to implement a solid GPO. This book is great for referencing while you design how you want your Group Policy to be implemented in your Active Directory. IntelliMirror is a whole other animal and Moskowitz simplifies it for you. The font the publisher chose makes it easy to read and the excample figures are clear. Not many books on this subject; this is really all you need.
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Summary: The Best Group Policy Book EVER!!!
Review: Highly recommend this book to any IT professional involved with Group Policy or Active Directory. I knew that Group Policy was a great way to lower TCO in most organizations, but was always struggling to decode the Microsoft documentation. This book covers all aspects of Group Policy, in great detail, with great examples, and with extra muggets that I believe you will not find anywhere else.
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Summary: This is what you're looking for!
Review: I am a Microsoft Certified Trainer and has been working more or less day and night for three years - in labs, in theory, in real-world and in class - with Windows 2000, Active Directory and Group Policy. Earlier this year I invested in a few books concerning these subjects, and was once more thoroughly disappointed. Every one seems to be meant for beginners, and/or for the publishing business: thick, promising books with nothing in them. Said to my collegue: "Perhaps one knows so much nowadays, that you really can't find anything new in books (as opposed to Internet, real-world, lab)," and I actually decided, somewhat bitterly, not to waste any more money on "computer related" literature. But then I read Moskowitz' "Windows 2000 Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror" (2001), and is what I hope for every time; here's a writer who's obviously passionate about the subject, who with great theoretical and practical knowledge been working hard to share his knowledge in a clear, no-nonsense fashion.
As you know, these kind of books usually have a common problem: they all tell you the same basics, throw in some pseudo-advanced details, and - most importantly - avoid the tough nuts. What's so liberating with Moskowitz' work, is that he indeed tells you the basics, just to make sure you follow him, then he goes one step further, along the way he throws in some real nuggets for technicians, and cracks them nuts one after another, like it's never been a problem at all. No-nonsense, easy read, nearly fascinating from the first page to the last. I'm very impressed. This book is extremely useful, a real treasure. If you're at Amazon searching for a book about these matters, you've certainly found what you're looking for. I myself, will keep my eyes open for further works by Jeremy Moskowitz. Aside of being very experienced and knowledgable, he's also a skilled writer, free from that nudge-nudge-humor which some writers grasp at to make their thick nonsense "easy read"; but still he is easy read, has a laid back dry sense of humor, and writes fluidently. I don't think he's written any other books, though he's been writing for magazines, but I will keep my eyes open. This is truly great work! Perhaps the best in a long time.
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Summary: This book is a must-read; it's as simple as that.
Review: I have never reviewed a book in my life, but I must tell you this book is terrific. I have so many books on Active Directory it's ridiculous. I even have all the Microsoft Windows 2000 whitepapers spiral bound. After having read all the aforementioned tomes, I was amazed how much I learned about profiles, group policies, and administrative templates from this book. You can tell Moskowitz has been in the trenches. No diatribes. No lofty digressions. No propeller head mumbo-jumbo. Just good, solid, useful information. Write more books, Jeremy. We need 'em.
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