Book details of 'Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (Independent Administration/Support)'

Title	Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (Independent Administration/Support)
Author(s)	William R. Stanek
ISBN	0735605742
Language	English
Published	March 1999
Publisher	Microsoft Press

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With its concise explanations, accurate procedures, and excellent index, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant reminds you how to perform common and moderately obscure Windows NT tasks. It won't teach you how to administer Windows NT if you're starting from zero, but it's superior in its ability to refresh a knowledgeable technician's memory. If you know what you need to find--for example, the command for converting a FAT (file allocation table) volume to NTFS (NT file system)--you'll be able to locate it quickly in this book. This pocket guide is the next best thing to having memorized every procedural detail of users, security, file systems, and networking. It makes an excellent review guide for the Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 exam (70-067). In fact, it's better than many books designed specifically for that purpose. Microsoft Press put some thought into the physical design of this book and the others in its series. It's compact and has plastic-coated covers, but the binding won't lie flat--you'll have to use weights or clips to keep it open to a particular page while you use both hands on the keyboard.
Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
I suppose that one might say that this book is a "consultant" in that one might "consult" it about which button to press on a particular screen. However, I would imagine that most people would have a slightly fuller expectation of the word "consultant," as in someone who is able to help you with something you don't already know how to do. Part one supposedly deals with administration fundamentals. Chapter one indicates the way the book means to progress by talking about tool trivia rather than basic concepts. The dialogue boxes for Server Manager are reviewed in chapter two, but not in significant detail. As only one example, the reader is purportedly told about how to set up alerts, with passing mention of the fact that the Alerter and Messenger service are required for this function. The reference given does not actually tell you anything about these services, and, in fact, neither does the rest of the book. Task Manager and Event Viewer screens are described in chapter three. Part two looks at user administration. Chapter four lists, but does not explain, Microsoft terminology and some of the default accounts. Some of the options for user or group creation are outlined in chapter five. Chapter six talks about the functions in User Manager. Disk management is the topic of part three. Chapter seven looks at Disk Administrator and some other utilities. There is a reasonable overview of volumes and RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) arrays in chapter eight. There is some discussion of file systems in chapter nine, but most of the space is devoted to Windows Explorer. The assigning of share permissions is described in chapter ten. Rather ironically, chapter eleven reviews a number of backup media types, but then only outlines the use of NTbackup, which is restricted to tape drives. Part four addresses network administration. Chapter twelve lists, piecemeal, various screens and dialogues to do with TCP/IP configuration. Print servers are discussed in chapter thirteen. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) settings are viewed in chapter fourteen, without, of course, any indication of how to get a range of IP addresses in the first place. Chapter fifteen runs through the screens for the WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) and only then does sixteen explain what DNS (Domain Name Service) is. This book basically reproduces, with about the same level of detail, the Windows help system. At best it is a not-quite-complete desk reference to the administrative utilities in NT. Forget consulting. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1999
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Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is the premier Network Operating System on the market today, delivering robust functionality with the scalability to meet the needs of small, medium, and large organizations. This title addresses the needs of experienced system and network administrators, providing crucial, concise information required to both improve performance and solve common system problems. A concise, pithy, rough-and-ready guide, the Pocket Consultant emphasizes lists, tables, commands, and quick bulleted steps. The book also features an introduction to the Windows(r) scripting host and shows how to craft a rudimentary script.