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Summary: Clear, detailed, and comprehensive
Review: This book explains Active Directory in its entirety - and includes a quick but useful overview of how/why Active Directory is such a big deal... which helps you understand the big picture. The book quickly dives into detail about the things you need to know about Active Directory - like Active Directory architecture, DNS details, domain plainning, kerberos security, upgrading from NT4, the schema, and migration... and others. On top of that, the book is an easy read, because the author writes so that it's actually enjoyable. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Great book, good information
Review: This book has all the information needed for getting a clear picture of Active Directory, and puts it into a perspective that helps you understand what's going on inside Windows 2000. Clear explanations of things, lots of extras that round out its technical information nicely. Serious Windows 2000 IT professionals need a copy of this book.
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Summary: Extraordinary value for money
Review: This book is an excellent source of knowledge that perfectly matched the objective I acquired it for. The language is simple and easy to understand, the analogies plenty and well related to real life, and the layout logical and interesting. Simply put, a marvelous job done for a complex subject of Active Directory.I would recommend this book to all readers who wish to acquire a solid understanding of Active Directory.
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Summary: Agree with Eau Claire -- This book is fluff
Review: This book is too lightweight to be called a "Technical Reference." For those wanting a technical reference, go to Microsoft's MSDN and white papers. This book is a lightweight regurgitation of all of that. It's a made-for-TV-movie of Active Directory, complete with advertizements. Don't bother.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Very well written and clearly explained. I would recommend this book to anybody wishing to have a more detailed explaination of AD.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Very well written and clearly explained. I would recommend this book to anybody wishing to have a more detailed explaination of AD.
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Summary: Good read, Pour reference
Review: While the author is certainly very knowledgeable with the subject matter he tends to forget from time to time that we, the readers, may not be. I purchased this book right around the time that Windows 2000 was coming out -- before being familiar with active directory, and before the hundreds (if not thousands) of TechNet articles came out explaining the directory in detail -- and I found the book somewhat lacking in it's explanation. I use it occasionally as a reference book, however, the Index and style of writing does not lend it to being a quick reference (you usually have to read two or three pages to get to the information you desired). I recommend it, perhaps as a supplement to, or with supplement from the articles on Microsoft's TechNet. It is, however, very well written and enjoyable book to read!
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Summary: Good read, Pour reference
Review: While the author is certainly very knowledgeable with the subject matter he tends to forget from time to time that we, the readers, may not be. I purchased this book right around the time that Windows 2000 was coming out -- before being familiar with active directory, and before the hundreds (if not thousands) of TechNet articles came out explaining the directory in detail -- and I found the book somewhat lacking in it's explanation. I use it occasionally as a reference book, however, the Index and style of writing does not lend it to being a quick reference (you usually have to read two or three pages to get to the information you desired). I recommend it, perhaps as a supplement to, or with supplement from the articles on Microsoft's TechNet. It is, however, very well written and enjoyable book to read!
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Summary: Good Planning Material, Poor Technical Reference
Review: While the book contains a good amount of planning, overview, and description of AD and it's features, it doesn't contain very much true technical insight. I also found that the author tends to get unecessarily wordy at times too. In what would normally take a few lines to describe, he circles around the description for several paragraphs and ends up giving a more confusing description than had he just come right out and said it.
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