About the Book
The comprehensive guide to planning, deployment, and everyday maintenance--straight from the experts.
Get your mission-critical systems up and running quickly--and maximize your organization's productivity--with the essential guide to installing, configuring, and managing the Windows Server 2003 family. This comprehensive administrator's reference details operating system features and capabilities, and provides easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for everyday, on-the-job results. You also get expert insights for using the improvements in system and network security features, network capabilities, and Active Directoryr services--must-know details for protecting and optimizing your technology investment.
Topics covered include:
· Deployment planning: Create a deployment road map. Plan directory services structure, domains, and namespaces.
· New installations: Configure network settings, file and print services, Group Policy, Resultant Set of Policy, storage, and devices. Use Remote Installation Services. Troubleshoot setup.
· Upgrading: Prepare Microsoft Windows NTr 4-based domains and computers. Upgrade from Windows 2000 or XP.
· Network operations: Manage TCP/IP, Active Directory services, security features, interoperability, clustering, disk management, shadow copies, and other services.
· Web services: Run and optimize Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, Internet Security and Acceleration Server, Certificate Services, headless servers, and Web gardens.
· Client services/support: Set up e-mail services. Deploy Terminal Services. Automate software management. Use new command-line tools and scripting to simplify routine administration.
· System tuning and repair: Use monitoring tools, backups, automated recovery, fault tolerance, and avoidance. Tweak the Registry. Troubleshoot and recover services.
· CD-ROM features 180-day evaluation version of Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition.
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Charlie Russel and Sharon Crawford have coauthored several books on operating systems. Their titles include Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrator's Companion, Running Microsoft Windows NTr Server 4, UNIX and Linux Answers, NT and UNIX Intranet Secrets, and Upgrading to Windows 98. Charlie has many years of system administration experience, with a specialty in combined Windows NT and UNIX networks. In addition to his books with Sharon, he wrote ABCs of Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and SCO OpenServer and Windows Networking.
Sharon Crawford is a former editor who now writes full time. She is the author of Windows 98: No Experience Required and ABCs of Windows 98, and coauthor of Windows 2000 Professional for Dummies (with Andy Rathbone). She writes a regular column on Windows 2000 and Windows 98 for Fatbrain.com (www.fatbrain.com/hottechnologies.html).
Jason Gerend has co-authored several books, including The Effective Executive's Guide to Outlook 2002, The New Webmaster's Guide to Dreamweaver 4, and the New Webmaster's Guide to FrontPage 2002. He also helped Sharon and Charlie write the first edition of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrator's Companion, and Windows 2000 Pro: The Missing Manual. A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Jason enjoys hiking and installing operating systems for fun. He's been fooling around with computers since the days of MS-DOS 2, was a big fan of OS/2 2.1, and has been a freelance Webmaster and computer consultant since 1995.
