Designing Windows 2000 Networks

By Ed Wilson

This is a book for computer professionals who are preparing to deploy Windows 2000. Emphasis on real world deployment options. Lots of easy to understand examples. Plenty of illustrations with concise... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130661996
• ISBN13: 9780130661999
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Great troubleshoot section; good preview for Minasi book

There're 3 sections: project manager's guide to w2k server migration (150 pages), overview of DHCP, WINS, DNS, AD, and a troubleshooting AD chapter.The ProjMgmt chapters (1-6) are a good read for anybody who's migrating or doing clean installs, Wilson's clearly seen many many cases of what can go awry and gives a lot of solid advice, both of the forest/domain/OU setup and of the softer planning/implementation/getting management buyin type.Chapters 7-11 are DHCP/DNS/AD/interoperability survey, they're nowhere near the depth/breadth of Minasi (now in 4th Edition), but they're excellent prep for Minasi, written at an intermediate level. You won't know enought to manage a large forest, but you'll have a solid conceptual understanding. The interoperability section's thin, it's really about integrating Exchange and NetWare, it doesn't mention Services for Unix/MAC, samba, etc.AD troubleshooting section will save you time and anguish: nltest and browstat will become your friends. If you don't buy book, at least borrow it,read the last chapter.Downsides: index kinda skimpy, minor typos of capitalization/font type throughout, some superfluous screen scrapes. Other than that, a really solid presentation of the topic in 500 pages.