Windows Server 2003: A Beginner's Guide / Edition 2

by Martin S. Matthews, Lyssa Wald, Michael Mueller, Melinda Moore Lytle

Overview

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A proven, patient approach that will help you understand in detail hundreds of upgrades and take advantage of powerful new features of Windows Server 2003


Step-by-step tutorials cover all the essential aspects of migrating, deploying, networking, and administering Windows Server 2003. You’ll discover many ways to foster the exchange of information and computer resources among people, systems, and devices. Make your organization more efficient with Windows Server 2003.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072193091
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	04/11/2003
Series:	Beginner's Guide
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	752
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Martin S. Matthews (Freeland, WA) is the best-selling author of more than 50 books, including FrontPage 2000: The Complete Reference and Windows 2000: A Beginner’s Guide.

Table of Contents

PART I: The Windows Server 2003 Environment

1: Exploring Windows Server 2003

2: Migrating to Windows Server 2003
PART II: Deploying Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional

3: Preparing for Installation

4: Installing Windows Server 2003

5: Rolling Out Windows XP Professional

6: Remote Installation Services
PART III: Networking Windows Server 2003

7: Windows Server 2003 Networking Environment

8: Setting Up and Managing a Network

9: Using Active Directory and Domains
PART IV: Communications and the Internet

10: Communications and Internet Services

11: Internet Information Services Version 6

12: Virtual Private Networking

13: Terminal Services and Remote Desktop
PART V: Administering Windows Server 2003

14: Managing Storage and File Systems

15: Setting Up and Managing Printing and Faxing

16: Managing Windows Server 2003

17: Controlling Windows Server 2003 Security

Answers to Mastery Checks

Editorial Reviews

Microsoft's April launch of Windows Server 2003 signaled a newer, modular strategy; the company intends to continue delivering additional components for at least six months postlaunch. This means that libraries, though needing to invest in guides to the new server OS, may need to upgrade more quickly than in the past for coverage of newer components. These four titles will help start the collection. Intended for Windows Server 2000 administrators who need to update their skills, Delta Guide eschews the basics for changes in the new OS, beginning with selecting an edition and moving through interface and policy changes, security enhancements, new command line tools, and more. Online sidebars bring users up to speed in areas where their Win2k knowledge is lacking. Buy in conjunction with more thorough guides that also address the needs of beginning administrators. Beginner's Guide and Teach Yourself target beginning administrators, teaching via step-by-step chapters. In Beginner's, the notes and "Ask the Expert" sidebars add useful info, progress checks mid-chapter help break up lengthy prose, and projects and mastery checks close chapters. Teach ends chapters with a summary and Q&A and includes similar notes and asides, falling somewhat short in explaining what to do when its step-by-step instructions fail. Beginner's, for example, goes by degrees through setting up nonplug and play printers, while Teach merely directs readers to the Add Printer Wizard. Both are good bets for all libraries. Meanwhile, Unleashed is a comprehensive reference for intermediate to advanced administrators. Lists of best practices contain tips to keep servers running smoothly, along with rules and recommendations integrated into each chapter; larger libraries can consider. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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