Mastering Windows 2000 Server

by Mark Minasi (Author), Christa Anderson (Author), Doug Toombs (Author), Christa Anderson (Author), Doug Toombs (Author), Mark Minasi (Author), Brian M. Smith (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.47

  The only Windows 2000 esource you need, now with a new emphasis on security! The No. 1 choice of Windows administrators, Mastering Windows 2000 Server gives you all the conceptual and practical information you need to get the most out of Microsoft's flagship network operating system. This is the premier resource for configuring, administering, and tuning Windows 2000 Server as part of a corporate enterprise network. You can depend on it for clear, authoritative instruction in hundreds of techniques that will make your work easier and your job more secure. Coverage includes: installing Windows 2000; configuring IP, DHCP, WINS, and DNS to achieve the right foundation for your network; building and managing domains with Active Directory; controlling hundreds, even thousands, of workstations with group policies; prebuilding and delivering complete workstation images with Remote Installation Services; deploying applications throughout the enterprise with Microsoft Installer; understanding advanced DNS design and troubleshooting to keep your domains secure and running; improving network resource accessibility with Dfs, Web folders, shared printers, and Web printing; using Windows 2000 to share Internet Connections; tuning and monitoring your network; securing your network with new coverage of IPSec, certificates, security templates, simplified hotfix installations, auditing, and more; offering Web content with Internet Information Services; and 5 Real Solutions to Real Challenges. If improving the real-world performance of your network is the bottom line, this book delivers the goods. It shows you how to design and manage a multiple-platform network, build a Windows-based intranet, find the right data backup strategy, prevent and recover from disasters, and much more. There's no end to what you'll accomplish with practical, step-by-step instruction from the expert who has actually done it all on live networks!

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $41.76

  Mark Minasi, the world's #1 Windows NT authority, updates his #1 best-selling book for Windows 2000. Every system administrator needs this book! This high-level, irreverent yet readable explanation of Windows 2000 Server provides the best discussion of the architecture, features, and new utilities of the new OS in print. You'll learn from the expert: the differences between NT and 2000, the advantages (and potential pitfalls) of the new OS; scores of undocumented secrets, tips, tricks, and workarounds, practical, hands-on advice for installing and using Windows 2000 in an enterprise environment, and hundreds of useful and essential nuggets of information that will save you hundreds or thousands of dollars in calls to Microsoft's help desk.