Publisher's Synopsis
The ONLY Windows 2000 Resource You Need Now With a New Emphasis on Security!
The #1 choice of Windows administrators, Mastering Windows 2000 Server gives you all the conceptual and practical information you need to get the most out of Microsoft s flagship network operating system. This is the premier resource for configuring, administering, and tuning Windows 2000 Server as part of a corporate enterprise network. You can depend on it for clear, authoritative instruction in hundreds of techniques that will make your work easier and your job more secure.
Coverage Includes:
- Installing Windows 2000
- Configuring IP, DHCP, WINS, and DNS to achieve the right foundation for your network
- Building and managing domains with Active Directory
- Controlling hundreds, even thousands, of workstations with group policies
- Prebuilding and delivering complete workstation images with Remote Installation Services
- Deploying applications throughout the enterprise with Microsoft Installer
- Understanding advanced DNS design and troubleshooting to keep your domains secure and running
- Improving network resource accessibility with Dfs, Web folders, shared printers, and Web printing
- Using Windows 2000 to share Internet Connections
- Tuning and monitoring your network
- Securing your network with new coverage of IPSec, certificates, security templates, simplified hotfix installations, auditing, and more
- Offering Web content with Internet Information Services 5
If improving the real–world performance of your network is the bottom line, this book delivers the goods. It shows you how to design and manage a multiple–platform network, build a Windows–based intranet, find the right data backup strategy, prevent and recover from disasters, and much more. There s no end to what you ll accomplish with practical, step–by–step instruction from the expert who has actually done it all on live networks!
