Windows 2000 Server Architecture and Planning, 2nd Ed.: A Must-Have Comprehensive Guide to Windows 2000 - Softcover

Morten Strunge Nielsen

9781576106075: Windows 2000 Server Architecture and Planning, 2nd Ed.: A Must-Have Comprehensive Guide to Windows 2000

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576106071 ISBN 13: 9781576106075

Publisher: Coriolis Group, 2001

Written by the author of the successful first edition of Windows 2000 Server Architecture and Planning (ISBN: 1-57610-436-2) and the highly acclaimed NT5: the Next Revolution (ISBN: 1-57610-288-2). Unlike other books on the shelf, this revision of the book includes vital information based on product changes available in the Windows 2000 Server service pack (to be released after the initial release of the Windows 2000 Server.) Includes information on the latest Windows 2000 functionality and utilities that will ease software deployment and upgrades, and help manage a network of desktops and servers.

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Review:

Windows 2000 Server Architecture and Planning provides the best documentation to date of Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. Basing his work on late, feature-complete beta versions, Morten Strunge Nielsen has compiled a thorough picture of how these products will fit into new and existing Microsoft-based networks. Covered topics include all aspects of Active Directory planning and implementation, as well as domain trees and forests. Further, the book devotes space to designing systems around Organizational Units (OUs), Group Policies, Domain Controllers, Global Catalog Servers, and Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS).

Nielsen generally steers clear of explicit how-to information, though there's some of that in the Active Directory sections. Instead, most of this book explains the functional elements of Windows 2000 at a medium to high level with lots of lucid prose and a wealth of conceptual diagrams. It's exactly the kind of thing you need as you plan a new implementation or an upgrade. The book is heavy on definitions, providing many sidebars that explain the terminology Microsoft has attached to various pieces of its new technology. Helpfully, the index pinpoints these definitions, so it's easy to turn right to the explanation you need. --David Wall

Topics covered: Active Directory planning and implementation, domain trees and forests, and designing systems.

About the Author:

Morten Strunge Nielsen (Denmark) has written nine books on Windows, Windows NT, and client/server and he has contributed more than 1,000 articles to leading computer magazines during the last ten years. He holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE). Currently he works as a product manager with a major Danish computer firm, which specializes in the design of infrastructure solutions.

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