Windows 2000 System Administrator's Black Book: The Systems Administrator's Essential Guide to Installing, Configuring, Operating, and Troubleshooting a Windows 2000 Network | 
 enlarge | Authors: Stu Sjouwerman, Barry Shilmover, James Michael Stewart
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Category: Book
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Pages: 752
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.3 x 2.1
ISBN: 1576102688
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.44769
UPC: 788581026885
EAN: 9781576102688
ASIN: 1576102688
Publication Date: July 27, 2000
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Amazon.com Review
With Windows 2000 becoming less of a novelty and more of an established force in organizational networks, a book based on experiences with real-life deployments--instead of laboratory systems--comes in handy. Windows 2000 System Administrator's Black Book distills the Windows 2000 experiences of three administrators into a large collection of stepped procedures, with some tips and conceptual explanations in the mix. It pays special attention to the differences between Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000--a valuable emphasis. It also shares numerous practical lessons, such as the fact that you can (against Microsoft's recommendations) put printers of different makes and models in the same printer pool, as long as they all can be made to use the same driver. This book has real substance, and the authors know their subject. On the negative side of the scale, this book has real language problems, which fact reduces its usefulness. Fortunately, documenting sequences of steps makes up the majority of the text, so it's understandable enough. Also, it's easy to locate procedures that interest you, by using either the index or the black page-edge thumb tabs and the separate tables of contents for each chapter. This is still a substantial book based on real experience. It pays ample attention to the contents of the Windows 2000 Resource Kit and deals adequately with special situations, such as preparation for disk imaging. That's a lot to offer the Windows 2000 system administrator, particularly if he or she wants the new operating system explained from a Windows NT 4.0 perspective. --David Wall Topics covered: Microsoft Windows 2000, explained mostly in a series of procedures, for installing, configuring, and managing the operating system for a medium-to-large organization; how to perform key work in disk management, Active Directory setup, Registry management, and print services provision; migration from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000, IntelliMirror, and the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
Product Description
Windows 2000 Systems Administrator's Black Book is a must-have reference for system administrators and IS professionals who install, configure, and support workstations and servers on Windows 2000 networks, and who require a detailed guide to Windows 2000 security, start-up and shut-down, disk and file systems management, networking, Internet Information Server, and the Active Directory. Windows 2000 Systems Administrator's Black Book provides details of the upgrade process from Windows NT 4 and discusses integrating Netware servers and Apple Macintoshes with a Windows 2000 network. The accomapanying CD-ROM includes all example projects from the book, code for managing the Windows 2000 Directory, and command line scripts that can be adapted by readers for their own use.
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 How, not why August 4, 2002
This book might be useful if you just can't remember how to perform some administrative tasks - but it is very short on telling you why you would want to do them. I want more of the why, and I will figure out the how.
I also want technical accuracy. I was surprised to learn (on page 439) that disk striping (RAID 0) provides protection from a single disk failure. This kind of error should not appear in a book of this nature - and there are many other similar examples.
The book was written by 3 people, and at times it seems as if each one wrote one sentence of each paragraph. It sometimes jsut doesn't flow very well, which makes it harder to concentrate on what is being said.
The book is not totally useless, but I have seen many other books that are, in my opionion, much more worth your time and money.
 Very good cross over book. August 31, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is really a good book. It is note quite a reference manual. Its more of a teaching/insturction book. I have been working with NT since 3.51. The jump from 3.51 to 4.0 was pretty easy because you were using Windwos 95 for a year already and 4.0 "looked" just like 95 and it still worked a lot like 3.51. With 2000 its all new.This book gives an explanation of what its covering in the chapter - good stuff - a lot like a manual, then it gives step-by-step instructions on how to do things that you wouldn't even need to think about how to do in NT4. Its worth it - you might not need it as much 8 months from now - but it should be on the self for those 1st 8 months. I would recomend this book to newbies and pros alike. The only thing that could be better was if Stu could have hooked us up with licensed versions of the software included with the CD ;)
Much Better Win2K Admin Books Available August 27, 2000
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
It really looks like the authors took the help screens available in Windows 2000 and simply reorganized the material. Very little analysis or depth is provided. While not bad, it is very weak in comparision with other available books. If you are going to spend the money on a valuable resource, then look at some other alternatives. For a basic admin overview, get "Windows 2000 Administration for Dummies." My clear recommendation for the best immediate to advanced reference is "The Ultimate Windows 2000 System Administrator's Guide." The Microsoft Windows 2000 Resource Kit is also a good but expensive alternative. DO NOT WASTE YOU MONEY ON THIS BOOK ... look at the superior alternatives.
 Better then trying to wade through the NT 2000 ResKit August 24, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Love the layout. Made it easy to find what I was looking for.I also have the Microsoft Press 2000 ResKit... found the black book a lot easier to use...
A mixed bag August 21, 2000
I purchased this book based on the author's reputation. I have mixed feelings about the book.Yes, there are some technical inaccuracies. However, none (so far) are fatal and most seem to been due to oversights in the editing process. Each of the chapters starts with an "In-depth" section that reviews the chapter's contents. While I hesitate to describe much of the material as "in depth"; this section of each chapter does a reasonably good job of overviewing the material. More than wading, but not deep either. More like waist deep. The rest of each chapter provides step by step instructions to tasks related to the chapters material. Most of these "solutions" provide a step by step instuction to complete some task. This book is not meant to be a MCSE test prep tool. For a beginning to intermediate level network administrator or for a recent NT 4 to Windows 2000 convertee, there is a lot of useful "get the job done" information.
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