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Title: Inside Windows 2000 Server (Inside) by William Boswell ISBN: 1-56205-929-7 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 20 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent details, writing style holds one's attention
Comment: As a Microsoft Certified Trainer I often need reference materials to nail down a detail in answer to a student's question. After TechNet, my next stop is Mr. Boswell's excellent book. Either he covers the subject in marvelous detail, or not at all. This is as it should be since a single paragraph on a complex topic is often worse than no coverage at all. I have been over and over DNS many times, yet I found a few good nuggets in my most recent review of Mr. Boswell's coverage of DNS.
There are some nice touches of humour along the way to further delight the reader. I am constantly skimming through books, looking for good ones to put on the shelf as a definitive reference and this is at the top of the heap. Many others I have read have been riddled with errors on points of fact, as well as spelling and typographical errors. This book is impressively well-edited. At fifty U.S. dollars, this book is a steal compared with most of the Windows 2000 books out there. I eagerly await Mr. Boswell's next endeavour.
Rating: 5
Summary: You should not skip this one! Great book!
Comment: In general I don't like technical bibles like this one. If it's possible I avoid thick technical books with more than 1000 pages or so because I simply don't have time and discipline to stick with such book. Despite of my habit I bought this book thinking that a good reference guide will at least come handy in the following months. But...after reading first few chapters I was surprised how readable this book is and now I'm reading it from cover to cover. The amount of technical details covered in this book is amazing. Author definitely knows what he's writing about from his own experience. You'll find description and precautions about (almost) every item from Windows 2000 arsenal; Installation, DNS, Active Directory, Data Storage, Security, Kerberos, Group policies, Remote Access, Recovery...you named it. The structure of the book is straightforward and the number of typos is minimal considering the size of the book, thanks to excellent job done by technical reviewers! You can choose your own path of reading or follow the author like me. One last reminder to those of you who are searching for definitive Inside Windows 2000 book. If you are network administrator then this is the book to start with (it's also more than excellent starting point for all MCSE's out there preparing for upgrade exams), on the other hand I found David Solomon and Mark Russinovich book "Inside Windows 2000 Third Edition" invaluable for application developers or network administrators curious about OS internals.
Rating: 5
Summary: Awesome
Comment: I used it for 70-215 Windows 2000 Server Exam and it complimented Exam Cram2 and Sybex excellently. It has more information than you'll need for the test but just enough for the job. Humorus and witty writing that doesn't insult your intellegence like Mike Meyers' Passport's or bored and perplexed like Micro$oft. It has quite a few chapters devoted to Active Directory so it also makes a great introductory to the 70-217 (which you should pass before you take the 70-216, 70-216 is a killer). I don't know how it holds up to Server 2000 by Mark Minasi but it surpasses all the other books on server (and I've read them all). It's only has two faults.
One: It is not an introductory book, it require a fair amount of survey knowledge. I recommend Reading Sybex's 70-215 book first.
Two: Is that it was written just as 2000 came out and has yet to be updated (still contains practical knowledge).
If Boswell came out with a 2nd edition, I'd buy it full price and have it shipped overnight. But even as a 1st edition, it far out paces most server books that are even in their 3rd edition. You can't beat it a it's price.
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Title: Windows 2000 Essential Reference (Essential) by Steven Tate, et al ISBN: 073570869X Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 21 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Windows 2000 Server Professional Reference by Karanjit Siyan ISBN: 0735709521 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Windows 2000 Active Directory by Ed Brovick, Doug Hauger, William C. Wade, Doug. Hauger ISBN: 0735708703 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Inside Windows 2000 Professional by Jerry Honeycutt ISBN: 0735709505 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Windows 2000 Server Secrets by Harry M. Brelsford ISBN: 0764546201 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 23 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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