Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit

By Microsoft Corporation

Book Overview

This official Microsoft resource kit packs the authoritative technical information and tools IT professionals need to successfully deploy, manage, and maintain the Windows 2000 Professional operating... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572318082
• ISBN13: 9781572318083
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 1400 Pages
• Weight: 6.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 3.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Bravo!

Microsoft - to some a four letter word, to others a savior of the computer software industry. Either way, if you need to work with Microsoft's OS's then this is a must have. Besides the great resource kit utilities we have all come to know and love, the book is a must have for the level 2 support people in any organization.

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 this book if you are running Windows 2000 Professional. The on-line help is for users. This is the documentation set for professionals. This is the book 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 minimumially configured user workstations using online help, 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 this. 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. I'm giving this 5 stars not because of outstanding performance on the part of Microsoft Press with this edition, but because of the absolute necessity of having it.

Other reviewers should have read the title more carefully

What's annoying with people who don't take the time to look at what they buy, is the negative feedback on things they buy. One complains about not being able to find info on the server components: To this person, I would advise him to get the SERVER edition of this series ($700) as IIS doesn't ship with the workstation ed. To the customer bitching about DC (or lack of it) there are lots of 95/98 books out there talking about direct connection with Win'95: please buy a volume that refers to Windows '95 and nothing else. Why, why, why, can't these people read the title and description of things they buy more carefully? Better be cautious than sorry.Finally, this book has every answer on Windows 2000 technology as it comes out of the version called Windows 2000 WORKSTATION edition. Buy it if you use THIS OS (and don't complain if you are a Linux user and don't find a chapter on LINUX inside ;-)I was gonna rate this book 4 stars (as I rarelly give 5 stars to technical books), but now I need to give it a 5 stars to balance for these whiners in order to do justice to this great book.

A most impressive and handy reference

This book stands out among other Win2K references, not for its slim profile, but for every useful and thorough bit of information on absolutely anything directly related to the OS, even to other interesting aspects of modern computing. This book is as useful to a Windows 2000 Professional user as Windows 2000 Professional is to your computer!

A must-have for personal implementation of Windows 2000!

If you are a personal or small-business user installing Windows 2000 on your network or desktop computers, you really need to purchase this book. Clocking in at over 1700 pages, this book gives all of the information that Microsoft should include with a purchase of Windows 2000. There is a chapter for any possible question that you could have about Windows 2000, and detailed troubleshooting information is given. Especially helpful are the sections on networking. I recently set up a Windows 2000 network in my home office, and this book was essential to my getting it done correctly.The CD included with the book contains over 200 add-ons and utilities. While I don't use many of the programs on the CD, I have found several of them quite helpful for monitoring network connections and diagnosing problems and solutions for network and general WIN2K problems.