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Summary: Fun, easy style but no groundbreaking information here!
Review: I found this book to contain one of the easiest styles of technical writting to follow I have ever come by. The author does a great job of giving you what you want in a very light hearted, non intimidating style.The content though is very vague, not much useful information here, a lot of information you would find in tons of other sources including free ones (Microsoft White Papers), as a way of an "introduction" to Windows 2000 and Active Directory (96 pages), specially if you are already somewhat familiar with Windows 2000 and associated technologies; in my personal opinion this is done more as a filler than as a much needed introduction just because the main focus of the book is certainly possible to cover in fewer pages, as she does very well in the last half of the book. Even though the initial part does not go deep into the main subject of the book, it makes for a very fresh way to review content; as I said, it is an easy read and it probably won't take you a long time to go though it (it took me about an hour). The whole book took me about 6 hours to go through, that is how easy this book is to read, unlike your typical technical read.
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Summary: Fun, easy style but no groundbreaking information here!
Review: I found this book to contain one of the easiest styles of technical writting to follow I have ever come by. The author does a great job of giving you what you want in a very light hearted, non intimidating style. The content though is very vague, not much useful information here, a lot of information you would find in tons of other sources including free ones (Microsoft White Papers), as a way of an "introduction" to Windows 2000 and Active Directory (96 pages), specially if you are already somewhat familiar with Windows 2000 and associated technologies; in my personal opinion this is done more as a filler than as a much needed introduction just because the main focus of the book is certainly possible to cover in fewer pages, as she does very well in the last half of the book. Even though the initial part does not go deep into the main subject of the book, it makes for a very fresh way to review content; as I said, it is an easy read and it probably won't take you a long time to go though it (it took me about an hour). The whole book took me about 6 hours to go through, that is how easy this book is to read, unlike your typical technical read.
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Summary: This Windows 2000 Administrators' Prep School Is Fun
Review: I have had the luxury of assembling a library of about sixteen books on Windows 2000 as I set up a small but complex network. This book is one of three favorites. Lori Sanders writes with a very pleasant style. I was surprised to find that this grandmother and seventeen-year veteran of IS management had no prior published works. The first section (96 of 239 pages) gives a nice overview of resource organization under Windows 2000, especially Active Directory (the database for all user and resource objects), the common domain models, security, and organizational units (OUs, the smallest containers within a domain). The second section of 43 pages clearly explains the basics of planning user and group accounts that are used to authenticate users and then to authorize access to all network resources. The third and final section on environment management covers user profiles and group policies that permit the desktop, network setting, and applications to be separately tailored and centrally administered for each of the organizational units in the Active Directory. Finally, the book covers the new IntelliMirror feature that, together with other features, permits an administrator to maintain a clone of each machines environment and to install and restore completely from a central point. Throughout the book you will find only a handful of screen shots, for this is a book to help you understand the logic and possibilities behind the features (especially the new ones) of W2K. You sit in a comfortable chair as you read this - TV on, computer off, dog at your feet. The book assumes only a brief familiarity with NT and knowledge of computer networks in general. Few will be intimidated by the book, but even the most experienced NT administrators will find valuable insights. I want to write like Lori if I get the chance.
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