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Summary: A complete introduction, but not in much details
Review: A complete introduction, but not in much details. If you need to work on a specific topic, probably it is not detailed enough. You have to read other resources.I am very familiar with NT4. I feel this book is help for me to know Windows 2000. It is still a good book. I gave 4 stars, do you?
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Summary: A complete introduction, but not in much details
Review: A complete introduction, but not in much details. If you need to work on a specific topic, probably it is not detailed enough. You have to read other resources. I am very familiar with NT4. I feel this book is help for me to know Windows 2000. It is still a good book. I gave 4 stars, do you?
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Summary: Great insight to the new technology
Review: I read this after a colleague bought it, I am nowing buying my own copy. It explains the new concepts with exceptual ease, if you want to understand the Active Diredtory and how DNS works, get this and be the smart guy on the block before the others jump on the band wagon.
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Summary: A dog's dinner, best shredded and recycled.
Review: This is a hopelessly muddled and badly-assembled book. Billed by its publishers as a superstar blockbuster incorporating months of teamwork, this is (in fact) a shoddy and ill-conceived scissors-and-paste collage of six different books, with little thought given to consistency of level, or appropriate order of presentation. Much of the book, oddly, applies to NT, rather than W2K. The opening excerpts are at beginner level, so that for 135 pages W2K users are unlikely to learn anything new. Then the book switches abruptly to an extraordinarily detailed, technical, pedantic and generally unilluminating description of W2000 Server's Active Directory structure, a description which is almost entirely incomprehensible, and fails completely to discuss such obvious issues as how to reconcile W2K's handling of DHCP with router-vendors' proprietary softwares' handling of DHCP. Then in Section 3 it's back to the basics - how to use Outlook!!! How to access the internet!!! (Wow!) Then there's a long description of the Registry which goes on at great length about the importance of partitioning every PC's hard drive in order to be able to back up using a second version of W2K, yet fails totally to discuss what to do if you've got a computer with W2K already installed on a non-partitioned PC. Then there's a nightmarishly plodding and opaque description of Windows 2000 Server (now anyway out-dated) by a writer who should be banned for life from technical writing (Brian M Smith). Awful and generally useless. Money back, please. The publishers, Sybex, should be ashamed of themselves. This dog's dinner has at least the merit of generating so much confusion and irritation, that you want to go out and buy a properly-written book on the subject.
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Summary: A dog's dinner, best shredded and recycled.
Review: This is a hopelessly muddled and badly-assembled book. Billed by its publishers as a superstar blockbuster incorporating months of teamwork, this is (in fact) a shoddy and ill-conceived scissors-and-paste collage of six different books, with little thought given to consistency of level, or appropriate order of presentation. Much of the book, oddly, applies to NT, rather than W2K. The opening excerpts are at beginner level, so that for 135 pages W2K users are unlikely to learn anything new. Then the book switches abruptly to an extraordinarily detailed, technical, pedantic and generally unilluminating description of W2000 Server's Active Directory structure, a description which is almost entirely incomprehensible, and fails completely to discuss such obvious issues as how to reconcile W2K's handling of DHCP with router-vendors' proprietary softwares' handling of DHCP. Then in Section 3 it's back to the basics - how to use Outlook!!! How to access the internet!!! (Wow!) Then there's a long description of the Registry which goes on at great length about the importance of partitioning every PC's hard drive in order to be able to back up using a second version of W2K, yet fails totally to discuss what to do if you've got a computer with W2K already installed on a non-partitioned PC. Then there's a nightmarishly plodding and opaque description of Windows 2000 Server (now anyway out-dated) by a writer who should be banned for life from technical writing (Brian M Smith). Awful and generally useless. Money back, please. The publishers, Sybex, should be ashamed of themselves. This dog's dinner has at least the merit of generating so much confusion and irritation, that you want to go out and buy a properly-written book on the subject.
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