Windows 2000 IIS 5.0: A Beginner's Guide

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Summary: Made my job a lot easier
Review: ... This book contains everything you want to know about IIS, and then goes into detail on how IIS works with everything else that you have. One of my favorite parts is the chapter on troubleshooting client problems. It tells you if the error the user gets is an actual client problem, or a server problem, and then tells you how to fix it. If you work with end-users a lot, this section alone is worth the price of the book...

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Summary: A great guide to get you up and running
Review: At my last job I inherited an IIS/Exchange server that the previous administrator throughly botched. With no IIS experience and no referrence other than this book, things were up and running correctly in no time. While this book isn't a complete referrence, it is easy to understand and a good way to get up to speed quickly. If you are new to IIS this book is a good place to start before getting into more advanced theories and practices.

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Summary: Okay for the beginner
Review: Beginners may find value in this but anyone with more than a few months experience won't. I really didn't find anything useful. I give 3 stars because it's not a complete loss. The book does have a lot of dead weight though.

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Summary: From Beginner to Pro
Review: Best value book I've bought in a long time. The entire 600+ pages are filled with information that I just keep using. My company is really intent on becoming web-enabled, and this book allowed me to start from the ground-up and then keep on going. I've looked through other IIS 5.0 books in the bookstore, but this one has everything I need.

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Summary: Just buy it!
Review: Ever since Rod Trent started writing books, I've tried to pick them all up. Every book is written so I can understand it and written where I can become smarter in my job. The IIS 5.0 book is no different. I hadn't read the book yet, but we had an IIS 5.0 problem that we couldn't find the resolution to. I told my co-workers that I had recently purchased a book on IIS. We opened to the troubleshooting section and fixed our problem in a matter of minutes. My co-workers immediately jumped out to Amazon.com and bought their own copy. Thanks, Rod!

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Summary: Easy to read, easy to use
Review: Great book on IIS 5.0! Every time I need an answer to a solution, or want to review something I read, its just a page flip away. The book is well organized so I can go back and find just what I want. And, that's a very good thing since there's so much information packed into this book. I have one other book on IIS by MS Press...and it drives me nuts trying to find something useful.

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Summary: Absolutely Horrible
Review: How did this book get such a high rating? The information that is covered, is done in such a shallow way that it barely passes as a short-hand outline of IIS. This book is a downright travesty, If this book is your only resource on IIS then you are in a world of hurt. And to all of those people who thought this book was packed with information, I feel so sorry for your employer - if your still employed.

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Summary: You've got to be kidding (or how I got suckered by high scor
Review: I am horribly disappointed in this book. I bought it because of it's high score. It covers a multitude of topics at a very shallow level and most of the topics it covers I don't even think belong in a book on IIS. Some of it's information is plain wrong too, for example the coverage of authentication. It's coverage of important IIS issues like creating virtual directories for web sites is non-existent. It's where it should be strongest - configuring web sites and servers - that it is weakest. If I could give this 0 stars I would to hopefully prevent anyone else from making the mistake I did.

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Summary: You've got to be kidding (or how I got suckered by high scor
Review: I am horribly disappointed in this book. I bought it because of it's high score. It covers a multitude of topics at a very shallow level and most of the topics it covers I don't even think belong in a book on IIS. Some of it's information is plain wrong too, for example the coverage of authentication. It's coverage of important IIS issues like creating virtual directories for web sites is non-existent. It's where it should be strongest - configuring web sites and servers - that it is weakest. If I could give this 0 stars I would to hopefully prevent anyone else from making the mistake I did.

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Summary: Not a good book on IIS : it describes , it does not explain
Review: I bought this book in order to master IIS for my own web site and for those of my clients.
I am very disappointed.
This book has 486 pages and only 33 pages are covering one of the most important subject which is the IIS Web Server.
This book does not explain the things but describes them. For example, the chapter about the Web server is in fact nothing more than a description of the different menus : if you click on this menu than you'll click on this menu, if check that box than you'll check that box and so on.
Instead, I would have expected to have explanations of how to set up a web server: What is a home directory ? what is a virtual directory ? how it works ? why would you use them ?...
By the way, the book does not talk about this important notion of virtual directory (apart one line at the end of the book in appendix C).
On the other hand, the book has also many pages talking about subjects that are not directly related to its title.
Instead of talking about W2K Exchange 2000 or W2K Active Directory it would have been much more profitable to have a better explanation of how the IIS SMTP Server works.