Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Deployment Planning Guide [With CDROM]

by Microsoft Corporation and Corporation Microsoft Corporation

Plan and design the deployment of your Windows 2000 Server-based system with comprehensive information and tools -- direct from the Windows 2000 product development team. Part of the official... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735617945
• ISBN13: 9780735617940
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 1250 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

For Microsoft gurus, this is a must-have reference!

I hate the size of this Resource Kit, the biggest ResKit published by Microsoft so far. But the material more than justifies its size - every thing you need to know about the Windows 2000 platform and Active Directory is in here. I keep coming back to this one from time to time to refer to a lot of stuff that I would've otherwise overlooked.If you hate the idea of carrying or shelving this ResKit, the whole thing's available on the CD as well. I prefer to read long artciles/topics on paper - the CD servers as a Field Reference. Has plenty of tools too - some of them available for free on the Microsoft web site.This Resource Kit is the best investment in a Microsoft Press book i've ever made.Bharat SunejaMCT

If you are an IT pro in a W2K shop, you MUST HAVE this

Print this out and take it to your boss. The IT department has to buy a this expensive set of books if you are running Windows 2000 Server. The on-line help is for users. This is the documentation set for professionals. There are the books MS no longer includes with the software. You also need this as a reference if you expect to get a W2K MCSE or if you make a living consulting to W2K shops. This should be a total no brainer. You might be able to administer one or two low usage servers without these, but if you intend to implement the powerful new features of W2K (that's what you paid all that money to MS for, isn't it?) then you simply can't get by without these. While a good deal of this info can be obtained from TechNet or Knowledgebase, you just can't highlight and dogear those resources for future reference. And even those resources are incomplete compared to this.I'm giving this 5 stars not because of outstanding performance on the part of Microsoft Press with these editions, but because of the absolute necessity of having them.

A must have for every AD/Exchange 2000 Architect

As a Consultant that will migrate 50,000 users in 15 countries to Win2k this book is a must have. It is a superb reference and contains exactly the information I have been looking for about AD and Win2k server. The distributed systems guide alone is well worth the price. Real serious technical info about the AD.My advice to anyone recruiting Win2k engineers would be to ask prospective candidates if they have read the resource kit, if the answer is no then don't employ them. Anyone who is serious about deploying Win2k must have this book

Everything you ever wanted to know about Windows 2000 and

One of the negatives of the Microsoft books is that they often don't give a realistic view of Microsoft products. They often present them as they should work rather than as they actually do. In a sense, this book is no different. Despite this, the book is technically solid and contains much information that is not available anywhere else. You'll definitely want to supplement your studying by picking up other non-Microsoft Windows 2000 texts, but if you don't get this one, then you're simply not serious about Windows 2000.This book is ahead of its time. Microsoft has a lot of "late-breaking" information that got included in the Resource Kit. Other authors will likely spend countless hours poring over these books for information to include in their own books. The Resource Kit contains more updated material than any other book to date. While the Resource Kit definitely isn't perfect and probably doesn't need to be 7,200-some pages, it still is worth picking up. When you combine it with Microsoft's rebate offer, it actually becomes a pretty good value too.

An excellent resource that picks up where the MOC ends

This is a must for any serious designer of a Windows 2000 network. An excellent addition to the official Microsoft curriculum taught in training centres. For example...Currently there is very little information on IIS 5.0 availible. The resource guide for IIS 5 in this package is excellent covering many aspects including the new 'digest authentication'.AD designers looking at changing their AD schema should access this resource before embarking upon making changes... Excellent sections on Kerberos authentication. Which is new to many NT administrators moving to Windows 2000.There are many potential pitfalls when upgrading a network to Windows 2000. This resource kit is an excellent way of minimising that risk.Very readable and a must for all serious Windows 2000 engineers....