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Mastering Windows Server 2003 [Hardcover]

Mark Minasi , Christa Anderson , Michele Beverridge , Callahan , Lisa Justice
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  • Hardcover: 1792 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Har/Cdr edition (22 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0782141307
  • ISBN-13: 978-0782141306
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 20.6 x 7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 142,876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Only Windows Server Resource You Need

The single most comprehensive and understandable book on the subject, Mastering Windows Server 2003 continues author Mark Minasi′s award–winning tradition of clear and comprehensive coverage of Microsoft′s Windows Server products. This book shows you how to plan, configure and install your network, keep it running its best, and fix it if it breaks. And you still get all the coverage you need for the Windows 2000 Server installations that remain part of your environment.

Coverage includes:
∗ Configuring IP, DHCP, DNS, and WINS to achieve the right foundation for your network
∗ DNS explained in everyday English, from basics to advanced design
∗ Designing, running, and maintaining Active Directory–based domains with Server 2003 and 2000 Server
∗ Running your own Web, FTP, and e–mail server with 2003
∗ Controlling hundreds, even thousands, of workstations with group policies and security templates
∗ Tuning and monitoring your network
∗ Securing your network from split–brain DNS to AD delegation to group policies, logs, IPSec, PKI and more
∗ Using Windows Server 2003 to share Internet connections
∗ Complete coverage of all new 2003 features
Real Solutions to Real Challenges
If improving the real–world performance of your network is the bottom line, this book delivers the goods. It shows you how to design and manage a multiple–platform network, build a Windows–based intranet, find the right data backup strategy, prevent and recover from disasters, and much more. There′s no end to what you′ll accomplish with practical, step–by–step instruction from the expert who has actually done it all on live networks!

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The Only Windows Server Resource You Need

The single most comprehensive and understandable book on the subject, Mastering Windows Server 2003 continues author Mark Minasi’s award–winning tradition of clear and comprehensive coverage of Microsoft’s Windows Server products. This book shows you how to plan, configure and install your network, keep it running its best, and fix it if it breaks. And you still get all the coverage you need for the Windows 2000 Server installations that remain part of your environment.

Coverage includes:

  • Configuring IP, DHCP, DNS, and WINS to achieve the right foundation for your network
  • DNS explained in everyday English, from basics to advanced design
  • Designing, running, and maintaining Active Directory–based domains with Server 2003 and 2000 Server
  • Running your own Web, FTP, and e–mail server with 2003
  • Controlling hundreds, even thousands, of workstations with group policies and security templates
  • Tuning and monitoring your network
  • Securing your network from split–brain DNS to AD delegation to group policies, logs, IPSec, PKI and more
  • Using Windows Server 2003 to share Internet connections
  • Complete coverage of all new 2003 features
Real Solutions to Real Challenges
If improving the real–world performance of your network is the bottom line, this book delivers the goods. It shows you how to design and manage a multiple–platform network, build a Windows–based intranet, find the right data backup strategy, prevent and recover from disasters, and much more. There’s no end to what you’ll accomplish with practical, step–by–step instruction from the expert who has actually done it all on live networks!

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
I bought this to get to grips with Server 2003, both to do MCSE exams, and to get some hands-on. It's really good, but in places the fact that it has different authors shows up. For example, Chapter 9's User Accounts section completely ignores the earlier chapters examples on how machines were set up. Chapter 5's section on RIS looked like it would be good to install, till I realised that I had to do AD first (Ch. 8), and DNS (Ch.7). Having a couple of spare pc's and a crossover cable is handy too.
The protected PDF is annoying, you can't even copy and paste from it, which I like to do when I find a good tip.
Overall, very easy to read (I even managed a solid 5 hours on a train journey, and not many techie books can do that!), and goes right back to explain basics - so, plenty of bits that more experienced readers can skip.
Great for an overview of the whole product, but you may want to partner it with an ExamCram if studying too.
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Don't be put off by the fact that this book is more voluminous than the Bible. Or that it weighs over 3kg...

I like many others, I suspect, have used client side applications almost exclusively up to this point. Therefore with really no understanding of how to configure a server, I decided I needed to buy a book - and fortunately I chose this book.

Within 2 weeks, I have set-up IIS 6.0, configured DNS and installed the FrontPage Server Extensions. Yes, I could have just looked through the help menus, but this solution is much better.

If like me you have configured IP (Internet Protocol) addresses in order to connect up a network or just connect to the internet with a browser - then you will enjoy the in-depth analysis of just what exactly TCP/IP is and how to configure it in Chapter 6. If you don't know what 192.186.0.1 is, or how a subnet mask works then you sure will after reading this book.

DHCP, WINS and DNS is the subject of Chapter 7, which shows you exactly how Domain Name Resolution works, how to use forward and reverse lookup zones and is a massive help when figuring out what each of the different DNS record types are.

Chapter 17 covers IIS6, NNTP, SMTP, POP3 & More. Ever wondered what how a Microsoft based ISP sets up webspace for its customers? Well you can simulate this here by networking two computers and setting the one up as a web page server. Want multiple web sites using one IP address - no problem!

And that's before mentioning anything to do with Active Directory- which also gets a good airing.

The summary is that this book is an excellent starting point for server newbies, but it also is great for people migrating from NT4 or Server 2000. It certainly is a book that adorn my windowsill for years to come.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
God Send!! 2 July 2003
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Once again, Mark Minasi has gone to great depths to provide an absolute superb book.

If you want to learn Windows 2003 Server quickly, easily then this is the book for you. Again Marks comical style of writing makes the reading both entertaining and fun, but at the same time very professional. This guy really knows how to make learning fun.

If there is one book you buy this year, this has got to be the one... Well done Mark..

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Everything you'll ever need to know!
Excellent book, absolutely massive and tells you everything you'll ever need to know and more about Server 2003. Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2010 by W. Quinn
Brilliant
This Book is essential to anyone who wants to get to grips with W2K3,Mark and his team has done a good job....It has been a vauluble asset to me as a systems administrator. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2006 by Invader2Last
Good basic coverage for MCSE but missing key subjects
Overall very good book. Helped me to catch up on certain areas that I felt unsure of. However it does not cover some basic fundamentals of W2k3 server operational issues, i.e. Read more
Published on 25 July 2005
A must for all IT professionals and students alike
Don't let the size of this book intimidate you. 1700 pages is certainly a lot to get through. However, the chapters are arranged in a mostly logical order and the information... Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2005 by MJ Thompson
Server 2003
Im only at page 200 of the 1700 pages, however I find this book very interesting and resourceful - in terms of filling numerous gaps in my technical knowledge, not just in Server... Read more
Published on 29 Sep 2003 by Imran Hamid
Comprehensive and pleasurable
This is very helpful and ramps your knowledge from virtually nothing to reasonable compentancy. Definitely my first stop for any problem in my first two months of putting together... Read more
Published on 9 July 2003 by Robert Lauder
So good I bought it twice
There aren't many books that I buy for work and then buy for home as well, but this is one of them.

Mark (and I'll call him Mark rather than Minasi because that conveys the... Read more

Published on 24 May 2003
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