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Summary: Good deal of information; poorly presented
Review: I have read 4 Wrox books on Site Server (Beginning, P&M, Professional and Commerce Edition). This book is definitely the best book out of the above 4 that addresses the P&M architecture is some detail. Items that I find in P&M (e.g., IPDeny, DenyAccount, KEkey) are not even mentioned in other books. Therefore, for directory & file system security, I would have missed this section (unless I read it in another non-Wrox book).The layout of this book is excellent & it gives loads of examples to explain P&M in detail. (Source code can be downloaded from Wrox so that you can experiment with the examples within the book). My only complaint was that the Wall Street Investing example (located in the Appendix of P&M) finally worked when: 1. I did NOT register the WSI.dll (For some reason: I was not able to pull content from SQL-Server 7.0 unless it wasn't registered) 2. You MUST migrate [content] data from Access --> SQL-Server. (According to the book--"..You can of course migrate your data from Access to SQL Server at a later stage, but this is an added complication!" Unfortunately, this statement implied to me to create a Db within SQL-Server. However, it did not clearly address using SQL's Data Transformation Services to copy data from Access --> SQL-Server (in order to populate the appropriate tables) 3. Because the book was published in 1998, all SQL-Server screen-shot examples are in 6.5
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Summary: A book to get you started... advanced users look elsewhere
Review: I purchased this book while developing an intranet for my company. It does a fairly good job to get you started with Personalization and Membership (P&M), but after a while you'll realize that there's still a lot of information missing. For example, the book speaks nothing of applying filters with ASP or querying the DS using SQL commands or even any other objects other than the Membership.Userobjects. Many of which is vital in developing almost any website with P&M. There's a lot more that I'm just now learning about that I needed to know but this book never explains. The best way to learn? Until someone decides to write a comprehensive book on P&M, I will continue to use the web administration pages that came with Site Server (the ones that allow you to go through and administer the DS via. the web) as the examples and use this book only as a reference from time to time. Good luck!
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Summary: Pretty good -- could be better
Review: If you want to really understand what P&M is all about, this is the book. Robert cover all the key points including P&M With NT authentication or with Membership Authentication. He also offers several VERY GOOD sample codes that will make your life easier during the "getting used" phase. If you really want to start understanding the HUGE, sometimes not so easy but AMAZING world of Site Server and what it can do for you and your company. This Book is surely the foundation on the P&M side. Good JOB Robert ! P.S: Hope you have plans to make a new P&M advance Professional book soon.
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Summary: If you want to understand PM Server, get this.
Review: Site Server is a large and complicated product. The documentation that comes with it is unclear. For someone who wants to master the most powerful and useful part of Site Server, Membership and Personalization, this book is a must read. It explains the technology in terms of how its used in the real world. While I don't usually like "how to" books, this one is an exception.
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Summary: Good book but a lot of typos.
Review: This is generally a good book to explore the P&M feature of Site Server 3.0. I'm surprised, however, on many occasions where I found typos (e.g., Relationshipsships p.73, Partitons p. 85, etc.). I commend the author's effort to cover many aspects of Site Server 3.0's P&M in great details.
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Summary: Good book but a lot of typos.
Review: This is generally a good book to explore the P&M feature of Site Server 3.0. I'm surprised, however, on many occasions where I found typos (e.g., Relationshipsships p.73, Partitons p. 85, etc.). I commend the author's effort to cover many aspects of Site Server 3.0's P&M in great details.
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Summary: A really usefull book on P&M
Review: While this book is a necessary companion to the Site Server online help, I have been badly burned by using the sample code. There is one example of creating a class in Chapter 14 that was obviously dashed off without being tested even once. These utilities could have been very useful. Instead I ended up wasting a lot of time. Use the Site Server SDK instead.
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