Windows NT Power Toolkit

by Ed Tittel and Stu Sjouwerman

Providing a reference guide to both Windows NT and Workstation, this text discusses the shortcuts, tips, tricks, power tools and optimization and productivity pointers that most power users seek. It... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Textbook Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073570922X
• ISBN13: 9780735709225
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: New Riders Pub
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 2.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

A good reference

Unless your primary duty is NT Administrator or you are an NT fanatic you will not want to sit down and read this book cover to cover. I have found it to be a very good reference for solving problems at hand or to gain background on and area of NT administration before I have a discussion on the subject with someone else.

A Rare Book That Delivers

It's rare that I find a book that delivers what it promises, but I was really impressed by Windows NT Power Toolkit. I am an NT Administrator, and this book actually taught me things that I did not know. What significant is that I felt before I read it that I was an advanced NT user. It's obvious now that I wasn't, but this book has taken me to the next level. Thanks goes to the authors for delivering on what turned out to be a really good book. I am really glad this book was recommended to me by a friend.

Easy Read and Immediately Helpful!

Windows NT PowerToolkit is directed at the everyday user of NT who needs to get more out of their workstation. It is also designed to be useful for those that administer NT.The book was immediately useful as a reference. I needed to find a utility that would track calls made to a RAS Server for billing purposes. The section on RAS contained a reference to a piece of freeware to track calls. I also had some problems with NT RAS's reliability as a serious business solution. Many of the problems I encountered were covered in this same section.Windows NT Power Toolkit is also a good overview of NT fundamentals. I find that most of the problems I encounter are not easy to look up in a manual. This book provides the background that I need to solve most of these types of problems. For example, the book contains a list of most of the executables in the winnt directory and their functions. Having access to this information would have saved me countless re-installs of NT. I also liked the readability. I went through the first 35 pages while standing in line at the post office the day after I received the book.This is truly the Power Toolkit reference for NT. As an experienced NT'er, MCSE and sysadmin, I found the book to be both a useful reference and an excellent read. Anyone who uses NT, whether an administrator, power user or a regular user, will find this book an invaluable tool.

Best source of common NT tools and utilities available.

This is one of the best Windows NT reference books that I have seen. This details the many common tools and utilities used in the NT environment, complete with switches and options. There is also good links to the source or to sites with more information. The links and references are also included in the CD, with the links being hyperlinked to the web. The CD has dozens of tools such as Diskeeper Lite, WinGate Pro, WS-FTP Pro, Autopilot NT tuner, File Rescure to retrieve deleted files, Hyena, SPQuery for service packs and hot fixes, and lots of others. One of my interests is NT security, and there is a chapter devoted to managing NT system security, including policy recommendations. Another good chapter is about setting up a web site with IIS and information on third party web tools. There is also good information on W2K and an O=overview of Windows 2000, still in beta. For those that use the performance monitor, there is alot if info on NT performance monitor objects and counters. this book is jam packed with useful information in its 799 pages. It is put together real well and I like the layout, complete with dozens of figures and screen shots. Our company has ordered several copies for our network guys and security engineers.Again, one of the best reference books I have seen since i use a lot of these tools and utilities.

The NEW NT Administrator's Bible

My background is in the computing industry for the last twenty years, and in the WindowsNT world for about six years. During that time, I have gone through a plethora of System Management manuals, How-To books, and especially NT Administrator's guides. Overall, I found this book to be the best yet. It is well written and concise - it has everything! This has become my new NT Administrator's "bible". (I had the book less than 2 days, and it paid for itself quite easily in the amount of time I saved configuring some special concerns in my NT network!) I highly recommend this book to anyone who is running an NT network. You will wonder how you survived without it!Hats off to Stu and Ed for one FINE piece of work!!