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This thick volume serves as both a guide to installing Windows server 2003 and a reference to the daily tasks of network administration. The second half of the book focuses on interoperating with Novell NetWare and Unix, configuring mail services, deploying terminal services, internet information services, the Internet security and acceleration server, performance monitoring tools, and disaster planning. The CD-ROM contains a limited trial version of Windows server 2003, standard edition.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Description
This comprehensive administrator’s reference details operating system features and capabilities and provides easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for on-the-job results with the Windows® Server 2003 family.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
Wherever you stand in your Windows Server 2003 deployment plans, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator￯﾿ﾽs Companion can help. Organized around your real-world planning, deployment, and administration lifecycle, this book is exceptionally readable, clear, and above all, thorough.

This book starts with four chapters on assessment and planning, including extensive coverage of Active Directory and namespace planning, plus discussions of everything from documenting your existing network to assessing risk. (You￯﾿ﾽll also appreciate the 180-day trial version of Windows Server 2003 bundled in the back of the book.)

Next, you￯﾿ﾽll walk through installation and initial configuration, including Active Directory domain upgrades. Many of Windows Server 2003￯﾿ﾽs most significant improvements relate to AD management. This book covers the AD enhancements in detail, ranging from domain controller renaming to replicated logon timestamping. You￯﾿ﾽll also learn about forest and domain functionality levels, which let you move smoothly to deploy new features on your own timetable.

The authors systematically cover all of Windows Server 2003￯﾿ﾽs most significant services: NetWare, UNIX, and Mac support; basic Outlook mail services from the netadmin￯﾿ﾽs viewpoint; Terminal Services; indexing; and much more. There￯﾿ﾽs a full section on Windows Server 2003￯﾿ﾽs Internet services -- including ISA Server, Microsoft￯﾿ﾽs high-powered solution for Internet connection sharing. You￯﾿ﾽll also find a discussion of PKI infrastructure, including Microsoft Certificate Services (just part of the authors￯﾿ﾽ extensive security coverage).

Backup, fault tolerance/avoidance, disaster planning, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, recovery, even Registry editing -- they￯﾿ﾽre all here. Whether you want to use this book as a planning/deployment guide, a day-to-day reference, or both, you￯﾿ﾽll be very pleased. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The comprehensive guide to planning, deployment, and everyday maintenance￯﾿ﾽstraight from the experts.

Get your mission-critical systems up and running quickly￯﾿ﾽand maximize your organization￯﾿ﾽs productivity￯﾿ﾽwith the essential guide to installing, configuring, and managing the Windows® Server 2003 family. This comprehensive administrator￯﾿ﾽs reference details operating system features and capabilities, and provides easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for everyday, on-the-job results. You also get expert insights for using the improvements in system and network security features, network capabilities, and Active Directory® services￯﾿ﾽmust-know details for protecting and optimizing your technology investment.Topics covered include:￯﾿ﾽ Deployment planning: Create a deployment road map. Plan directory services structure, domains, and namespaces.￯﾿ﾽ New installations: Configure network settings, file and print services, Group Policy, Resultant Set of Policy, storage, and devices. Use Remote Installation Services. Troubleshoot setup.￯﾿ﾽ Upgrading: Prepare Microsoft® Windows NT® 4￯﾿ﾽbased domains and computers. Upgrade from Windows 2000 or XP.￯﾿ﾽ Network operations: Manage TCP/IP, Active Directory services, security features, interoperability, clustering, disk management, shadow copies, and other services.￯﾿ﾽ Web services: Run and optimize Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, Internet Security and Acceleration Server, Certificate Services, headless servers, and Web gardens.￯﾿ﾽ Client services/support: Set up e-mail services. Deploy Terminal Services. Automate software management. Use new command-line tools and scripting to simplify routine administration.￯﾿ﾽ System tuning and repair: Use monitoring tools, backups, automated recovery, fault tolerance, and avoidance. Tweak the Registry. Troubleshoot and recover services.￯﾿ﾽ CD-ROM features 180-day evaluation version of Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition.

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