Book details of 'Running Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0'

Title	Running Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
Author(s)	Charlie Russel and Sharon Cra, Charlie Russel
ISBN	1572313331
Language	English
Published	January 1997
Publisher	Microsoft Press

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
While the introduction does list some groups as a target audience, the assortments are so broad as to make judging on the basis of constituency very difficult. Part one is a pre-installation guide, which would be good if it gave you more material to plan with. Chapter one is a general (and promotional) overview of the operating system. The domain model, and trust relationships, are integral to NT networks, so chapter two's explanation can be quite useful. Unfortunately, chapter three's review of hardware planning is of the "make sure you have enough" variety. Chapter four gives both an outline and details of administration and security, but doesn't bring them together. File system and network protocol options are presented in chapter five, but, again, the content emphasizes making the right choice more than it gives you the information to make that choice possible. Part two's overview of installation has a decided advantage over most such guides in that it knows each network is different, and that a lot of decisions have to be prepared in advance. Chapter six outlines a number of approaches to the system installation itself. Most of the space in chapter seven, though, is spent explaining bits of TCP/IP that are not essential to the installation, and leaving out those that are. There is a good overview of disk partitions and volumes in chapter eight. Part three moves into domain administration. Chapter nine's look at user accounts is good on particulars, but doesn't give you a cohesive picture of how to decide permissions and policies for users. The built in accounts and groups are described in chapter ten. The mechanics of printer setup are displayed in chapter eleven, and shares are described in chapter twelve. Both Microsoft Messaging, in chapter thirteen, and application service, in chapter fourteen, start off with explanations of the concepts, but don't provide enough details for effective use. Chapter fifteen has a terse summary of some server tools. Part four tries to extend some of the material in part two to a wider arena. Domains, TCP/IP, and remote access all get some more detail in chapters sixteen to eighteen. New content is a description of Internet Information Server, in chapter nineteen, and clients for other platforms, in twenty. Part five extends other material from parts two and three, such as events and disk maintenance, with additional content on the registry and disaster recovery. While a serviceable guide to the system, and better than a large number of similar texts, this book cannot be recommended unreservedly. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1999
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The move to Microsoft Windows NT is well under way. And for everyone who creates and administers a Windows NT Server network, here's the perfect answer book-straightforward, comprehensive, and all in one easy-access volume. MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT SERVER 4.0 is also ideal for IS managers, power users, and network administrators in small to medium-size companies that are outgrowing their peer-to-peer networks. Here's the specific information readers need to design and implement Windows NT as an enterprise server-for example, the how and why of implementing multiple domains and trust relationships. It's hands-on information and not just theory. And it's going to sell as widely as Windows NT itself.