MasteringTM Windows® Server 2003

The Only Windows Server Resource You Need

The single most comprehensive and understandable book on the subject, Mastering Windows Server 2003 continues author Mark Minasi s award–winning tradition of clear and comprehensive coverage of Microsoft s Windows Server products. This book shows you how to plan, configure and install your network, keep it running its best, and fix it if it breaks. And you still get all the coverage you need for the Windows 2000 Server installations that remain part of your environment.

Coverage includes:

• Configuring IP, DHCP, DNS, and WINS to achieve the right foundation for your network
• DNS explained in everyday English, from basics to advanced design
• Designing, running, and maintaining Active Directory–based domains with Server 2003 and 2000 Server
• Running your own Web, FTP, and e–mail server with 2003
• Controlling hundreds, even thousands, of workstations with group policies and security templates
• Tuning and monitoring your network
• Securing your network from split–brain DNS to AD delegation to group policies, logs, IPSec, PKI and more
• Using Windows Server 2003 to share Internet connections
• Complete coverage of all new 2003 features

Real Solutions to Real Challenges
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!

Introduction.

Chapter 1: Windows Server 2003 Overview.

Chapter 2: The Basics: Networking Software, Servers, and Security.

Chapter 3: Configuring Windows Server: The Microsoft Management Console.

Chapter 4: Configuring Windows Server: The Windows Server 2003 Registry.

Chapter 5: Setting Up and Rolling Out Windows Server 2003.

Chapter 6: Understanding and Using TCP/IP in Server 2003.

Chapter 7: TCP/IP Infrastructure: DHCP, WINS, and DNS.

Chapter 8: Active Directory.

Chapter 9: Managing and Creating User Accounts.

Chapter 10: Managing Windows Server Storage.

Chapter 11: Creating and Managing Shared Folders.

Chapter 12: Software Deployment.

Chapter 13: Configuring and Troubleshooting Network Print Services.

Chapter 14: Connecting Microsoft Clients to the Server.

Chapter 15: Macintosh and Windows Server Integration.

Chapter 16: Supporting Clients with Windows Terminal Services.

Chapter 17: TCP/IP Server Services (IIS, NNTP, Telnet, SMTP, POP3, and FTP).

Chapter 18: Tuning and Monitoring Your Windows Server Network.

Chapter 19: Preparing for and Recovering from Server Failures.

Chapter 20: Installing and Managing Remote Access Service in Windows Server 2003.

Chapter 21: Novell NetWare and Windows Server.

Index.

Mark Minasi has 25 years of experience in the computer business. He has been teaching professional seminars on networking since 1985, and has experience with IBM, Novell, and Microsoft–based networks. Mark has been a columnist for BYTE, AI Expert, Compute, and NT Magazine and is CNN's resident computer expert.

The single most comprehensive and understandable book on the subject, Mastering Windows Server 2003 continues author Mark Minasi's award winning tradition of clear and comprehensive coverage of Microsoft's Windows Server products. this book shows you how to plan, configure and install your network, keep it running its best, and fix it if it breaks. And you still get all the coverage you need for the Windows 2000 Server installations that remain part of your environment.