Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices

By SBS Mvps

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974858072
• ISBN13: 9780974858074
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Smb Nation Inc
• Length: 1075 Pages
• Weight: 3.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 7.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great book for all levels

This book is great for installing SBS in a real world environment. Most books I looked at gave you the step by step instructions but were no help in the real world. This book gives you advice on real world situation that I couldn't find in any other book. The most if not all of the authors have real world experience with SBS and help point out areas that need to be patched and other things to look for during your install and setup. The chapters are written so you can read the book from cover to cover, but best of all you can skip to the chapter that you really need. This book will give you examples and solutions that you will not find in most books. This book is a great resource to have in any library.

An absolute must

I'm not one to to get back online to specifically do a review, but in this case I just had to. I've always been a great believer in "googling" and in 99.9% of cases, I'm able to find solutions to problems or answers to issues that arise in the normal course of SBS management (thanks mostly to the contributions of the authors of this book in various newsgroups). SBS2K3 is a new product to me, and I'm in the throes of upgrading from SBS2K. I made a conscious effort to setup a test server and use the book as a guide towards an optimum installation. The amount of new information that I came across in the book was really quite amazing. And I'm only 30% of the way through the book! An absolute must for budding SBSers.

5 stars if the shameless self promotions were left out.

This is a very good book on SBS2003 for experienced SBSers. The only draw back are the built in advertisements for the author's other books and services. You'll come across plenty of paragraphs containing sentences like ....but that doesn't need to be covered here, it's covered in my other book yada yada yada...... Still this is a very good book and highly recommended.

Best SBS Book

This is the best book that I have read on SBS. In fact I would go as far as saying that it is one of the most well written books on windows based software solutions that I have ever read. This book is a must buy for any SBS Professional

A very valuable addition for anyone using SBS.

As a reader who was generally unsatisfied with the first volume in this series, and not greatly experienced with the SBS product, I had mixed feelings about the book. About half of the content is VERY good. The other half seemed almost trivial and shouldn't have been included, or if it were, should have had far greater depth and specificity. Overall though, the value of the good stuff, FAR outweighs the fluff and makes this book a very valuable resource. If this book doesn't save you at least one call to PSS, I'd be very surprised. PRO Several chapters stood out for both the excellent content and clear writing. Andy Goodman's Advanced Setup and Deployment, Michael Klein's explanation of Exchange Server 2003, Wayne Small's RWW coverage, Alan Shrater's coverage of the use of SQL, Susan Bradley's Advanced Security and Jeff Middleton's Disaster Recovery really make this book a valuable addition to the industry. CON Several reviews of additional software didn't do a good job of describing the need for the software and in many cases didn't even mention how much the software would cost. Blatant plugs for Mr. Brelsford's sponsor HP seemed misplaced and contributed to my dissatisfaction with the book. Too many NOTES boxes deprive the reader of content. Coverage of the ISA Server 2004 which hasn't even been released should have been held for the upcoming "Extending SBS" which was mentioned several times in the book. Here's how it breaks down. Intro and Bio's Section 1: SBS 2003 Deployment Chapter 1 Introduction and Planning Harry Brelsford Chapter 2 Understanding Hardware in the SBS Environment Chris Angelini Chapter 3 SBS Licensing Harry Brelsford and Steven Banks Chapter 4 Advanced Setup and Deployment Andy Goodman Chapter 5 Using 3rd Party Tools to boost SBS Performance Frank Ohlhorst Section 2: SBS 2003 Utilization Chapter 6 Exchange Server 2003: Advanced Topic Michael Klein Chapter 7 Windows SharePoint Services: Advanced Topics Jonathan Hassell Chapter 8 Remote Web Workplace: Advanced Topics Wayne Small Chapter 9 Using MS SQL Server 2000 with SBS 2003 Alan Shrater Chapter 10 Fax Server: Advanced Topics Kevin Royalty Section 3: SBS 2003 Security Chapter 11 Advanced Security: Part 1 General Susan Bradley Chapter 12 Part 2 ISA Server 2004 Beatrice Mulzer and Dr. Tom Shindler Section 4: SBS Advanced Topics Chapter 13 System Monitoring Lawrence A Rodis Chapter 14 SBS Disaster Recovery Jeff Middleton Chapter 15 Migration Jeff Middleton Chapter 1 Introduction and Planning by Harry Brelsford This is a broad and very general overview of the SBS world. It was noted that another book is in the works on expanding your SBS Premium which will include both BizTalk Server 2004 and CRM 1. Besides these things, I don't know that there was much of great value in this chapter to me. Chapter 2 Understanding Hardware in the SBS Environment by Chris Angelini This chapter was more interesting. There is an interesting c