Overview
Whether you support 50 users or 5000, this practical guide provides fast answers for the day-to-day administration of the Windows XP Professional operating system. This popular, pocket-sized resource has been fully updated for Windows XP Service Pack 2, with new information on security administration, networking, maintenance, and more. Focus on essential system support issues and procedures with quick-reference tables, instructions, and lists. You’ll get the precise information you need to solve problems and get the job done—whether you’re at your desk or in the field!
Get fast facts to:
- Manage and troubleshoot the Windows environment
- Configure hardware and network devices
- Customize desktop settings and optimize the user workspace
- Manage user accounts, system access, and passwords
- Enable mobile networking and remote access
- Configure offline files, disk quotas, and shadow copies
- Schedule routine maintenance and backups
- Troubleshoot system problems and optimize performance
- NEW—Install and maintain programs, and manage disk drives and file systems
- NEW—Utilize security features including Add-on Manager, Pop-up Blocker, and Windows Firewall
Synopsis
This practical guide provides fast answers for the day-to-day administration of the Windows XP Professional operating system. This popular, pocket-sized resource has been fully updated for Windows XP Service Pack 2, with new information on security administration, networking, maintenance, and more.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewResponsible for Windows clients? William Stanek has simplified your life. He’s distilled Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 into 500 pages of specific, reliable answers you can access fast.
While blessedly concise, Stanek manages to cover nearly every corner of XP Pro. Some areas of special focus: configuring the Windows environment and hardware; customizing and optimizing XP’s interface; managing user access; coping with laptops and remote access; and configuring networking and Internet connectivity. Want to set disk quotas? Configure offline files? Add a custom logo to Internet Explorer? Troubleshoot startup or shutdown? Set up dynamic disks? Lock taskbars so users can’t misplace them? Look no further.
No, this book won’t quite fit in your pocket. But it’s small enough to take almost anywhere -- and useful enough that you’ll want to. Bill Camarda, from the January 2005 Read Only