Overview
Get your mission-critical systems up and running quickly with this essential, single-volume guide to administering Windows Server 2003—fully updated for Service Pack 1 and R2. This comprehensive administrator’s reference details operating system features and capabilities, and provides easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for on-the-job-results.
Discover how to:
- Create a deployment roadmap and complete an upgrade or a new installation
- NEW—Implement customized server scripts to help automate administration tasks
- UPDATED—Learn tools and techniques for installing and configuring Active Directory
- UPDATED—Manage TCP/IP-based networks, including DHCP, DNS, and WINS servers
- UPDATED—Configure and support Network Load Balancing clusters and server clusters
- NEW—Set up a wireless network that helps meet your security requirements
- NEW—Extend interoperability with legacy systems, including UNIX and Linux
- NEW—Deploy and configure Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004
- Monitor, tune, maintain, and repair your system
CD features:
- Scripts that you can adapt to your own work
- Scriptomatic 2.0 scripting tool
- Windows Script Host (WSH) 5.6 Help files
- Microsoft OLE Viewer administration and testing tool
- Fully searchable eBook
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Synopsis
MIS professionals can get the Windows 2000 Server up and running quickly with this clear guide, written by IT experts to complement the in-depth and technical reference materials in the Windows 2000 Resource Kit. The CD contains an electronic versions of the book, plus helpful scripts and checklists.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewWherever you stand in your Windows Server 2003 deployment plans, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator’s Companion can help. Organized around your real-world planning, deployment, and administration lifecycle, this book is exceptionally readable, clear, and above all, thorough.
This book starts with four chapters on assessment and planning, including extensive coverage of Active Directory and namespace planning, plus discussions of everything from documenting your existing network to assessing risk. (You’ll also appreciate the 180-day trial version of Windows Server 2003 bundled in the back of the book.)
Next, you’ll walk through installation and initial configuration, including Active Directory domain upgrades. Many of Windows Server 2003’s most significant improvements relate to AD management. This book covers the AD enhancements in detail, ranging from domain controller renaming to replicated logon timestamping. You’ll also learn about forest and domain functionality levels, which let you move smoothly to deploy new features on your own timetable.
The authors systematically cover all of Windows Server 2003’s most significant services: NetWare, UNIX, and Mac support; basic Outlook mail services from the netadmin’s viewpoint; Terminal Services; indexing; and much more. There’s a full section on Windows Server 2003’s Internet services -- including ISA Server, Microsoft’s high-powered solution for Internet connection sharing. You’ll also find a discussion of PKI infrastructure, including Microsoft Certificate Services (just part of the authors’ extensive security coverage).
Backup, fault tolerance/avoidance, disaster planning, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, recovery, even Registry editing -- they’re all here. Whether you want to use this book as a planning/deployment guide, a day-to-day reference, or both, you’ll be very pleased. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.