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Books : Computing & Internet : Web Development : Web Administration : Microsoft Windows : Operating Systems : Windows 2000 : Professional
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If you install or support Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit is near-essential. It is worth having for the utilities alone, with over 200 tools and scripts for management and problem solving on the supplied CD. A few examples include utilities for registry backup and restore, process viewing and management, memory analysis and monitoring, a handy network clipboard, and the ability to lock floppy drives as a precaution against viruses.Then, of course, there is the book. With over 1750 pages this is value for money but not armchair reading. It is divided into several parts, covering deployment and installation, system configuration, network configuration, performance monitoring and troubleshooting. There are chapters on inter-operating with Netware, Unix and IBM systems. Each topic is covered in-depth, so for instance you get 60 pages on file systems, mostly devoted to NTFS (NT File System). If the worst comes to the worst and the system crashes, the chapter on Windows 2000 stop messages tells you how to interpret the dreaded blue screens. Another vital topic is security, and here there is full information about user rights and permissions, the Encrypted File System, public key security and how to protect portable computers. There is also a detailed index and glossary.
This is a reference book and you are unlikely to read it cover-to-cover. The presentation is dry, and it is emphatically not a book aimed at end-users. Its value is in providing a single comprehensive resource, including information not found in typical third-party guides. --Tim Anderson
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The popular Dummies series returns to tackle the complexities of Windows 2000 Professional. Windows 2000 Professional for Dummies does a fine job while not breaking away from Dummies' style of injecting, in the publishers' own words, "a dash of humour and fun". Anyone with IT-phobia has nothing to fear as the book never strays into potentially scary technical alleys.The Dummies' formula was certainly ground-breaking when it first arrived, and still satisfies a huge market of readers who just want the basic facts to get them working without delving into unnecessary complexities. It may, however, be slightly too elementary. It begins by explaining the most basic concepts behind Windows and icons, which is overkill since complete beginners are unlikely to find themselves confronted by Windows 2000. The run-on style makes the book less than useful for casual research: it's hard to dip in and find what you're looking for. (Teach Yourself Windows 2000 Professional is better for casual dippers.) Also, you can't help but think the authors are trying that bit too hard to get another gag in at the expense of network administrators.
Apart from incorrectly saying there's a version of Win2K for the Alpha platform (Microsoft sadly abandoned this during the test program), Windows 2000 for Dummies still delivers the goods. If you can stand--or better still, enjoy--the style, then you'll find plenty of useful information. Even so-called experts will discover something new here.--Gordon Laing
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