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Title: MSCE : NT Server 4 in the Enterprise Study Guide by Lisa Donald, James Chellis ISBN: 0-7821-1970-0 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 10 March, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (36 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: The worst of the Four Core Sybex Guides
Comment: This book is a waste of money. It just repeats information from the NT Server / Workstation Guides by Sybex - which I felt were well done and helped me to pass the exams. It's poorly written, unstructured and does not cover the important 'Enterprise' components for this MCSE certification in any great depth. I'll be using my Osborne guide / New Riders Fast Track for my 4th MCSE exam.

Rating: 4
Summary: It serves its purpose
Comment: I think the bad reviews about this book have been unfair. First of all, NO single book is the panacea for the test. You will always need some complement, be it a cram book or a source of exam simulation questions. I bought this book and also the MCSE Readiness Review from Microsoft Press (ISBN: 0735605394, read my review) and passed the adaptive test without a sweat.

There will be more benefit from this book if you have already taken the NT Server test and you have the material still fresh in your mind.

This book covers adquately all the exam objectives. The highlights of the book were: Trust relationships, Netware Connectivity (Migration tool for Netware), Macintosh Services, multiprotcol routing, DHCP, WINS, DSNS, TCP/IP and troubleshooting.

Only two topics were not covered as expected: Network Monitor and Performance Monitor. They missed other tiny (but important)details regarding how to enable the disk counters for RAID (diskperf -ye) and the name of the Win 95 policy file (CONFIG.POL vs NTCONFIG.POL). Many questions showed up on my test related to these topics, and that's were my "backup" book came in to the rescue.

Overall, this is and adequate book. Don't hesitate to buy it. Make sure to weed out the errors by visiting the errata section on the Sybex web site. Also, don't forget to complement it with with a cram book and/or a source of exam questions (as I did).

Recommended.

Rating: 3
Summary: Beware of this book's coverage of roaming profiles
Comment: I generally found this book to be informative and accurate. There are a lot of repetition from companion Sybex MCSE books, though. The book's coverage of user roaming profiles, though, is completely wrong. Please pay attention to this.