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Summary: Major Disappointment!!!
Review: As an Independant Consultant and Solution Provider, Small Business Server was an ideal candidate to add to our arsenal services being offered to our small business owners. To support it we would need some quality technical resources available to us to continue to provide high quality support and I was hoping the Resource Kit would do it. I was complete let down by it's lack of in-depth technical information and seemingly lack of direction. It is nothing more than a product overview. Thumbs down on this one!
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Summary: I don't know what this book 's target is.
Review: I have finished this book with only 2.5 days.
I feel very disapointed because this book mainly tell you what the features are avaliable in the Small Business Server 2000.
This book hasn't tell you how to use them, how to deploy them.The style of the book is many titles in a chapter, but there is only a few words talking the title.
I feel that the author is saying like "There is Remote Access Service with SBS 2000. Then bye bye." This book is too details for manager/decision maker, but not enough for administrator, so I don't know what this book for.
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Summary: No Substance
Review: I was expecting something similar to Office 2000 Resource Kit, a very good resource. but instead this book is not at all helpful for anyone who has never installed a server product before or been exposed to network issue decisions. Luckily I come from a Unix/Linux background and could understand the jargon and over emphasized subjects covered in this book. Active Directory is nothing more then an overblown address book (however, it is most useful) it's coverage is overdone in my opinion. Save your money and use the Server help documentation that comes with the product.
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Summary: No Substance!
Review: This book has no substance at all. It lists features but explains just about nothing you may be trying to research. The book feels like a collection of headlines (including oversize fonts to fill the pages). Whenever you think you may be approaching an answer, it refers to the ominous "technology consultant". Even Microsoft's sales literature is significantly more useful than this "Resource Kit". Don't buy it even if you can't find anything else. At a minimum, make sure your book seller has a no-questions-asked return policy.
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Summary: Sales Brochure
Review: This book is absolutely useless. It only provided information normally found in a sales brouchure. There was no technical content. It only told you what you could do with SBS, not actually how to do it.
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Summary: Sales Brochure
Review: This book is absolutely useless. It only provided information normally found in a sales brouchure. There was no technical content. It only told you what you could do with SBS, not actually how to do it.
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Summary: No a very good book.
Review: This book was a real disappointment. I wanted something with the ins and outs, the pitfalls and must do's. This was an overview of features in MS SBS 2K. No thanks. I'll read that on the web. This book goes back!
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Summary: Book best for design and planning ->manage your expectations
Review: This book was written with SBS design and planning in mind first and foremost. If this book is purchased up front and used early in the SBS life cycle then you will find it excellent and it will meet your needs. You will especially benefit from this book if you are new to SBS and unfamilar with SBS branding matters such as structured setup and deployment, console-based management, etc. If your expectations were for the book to be a downstream technical troubleshooting manual, you need to consider using Microsoft TechNet for the latest KBase articles related to SBS or newgroups such as the Yahoo! SBS Group. Note that this book does not discuss third-party SBS products such as virus detection applications, and you'll need to look at other third-party Small Business Server 2000 books that are on the market for that. These other SBS 2000 third-party books do more step-by-step deployment and administration than the SBS 2000 Resource Kit, so again, manage your expectations accordingly and you'll be pleased with this book.
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Summary: Excellent overview of SBS2K, but little technical detail...
Review: This is not a "resource kit" in the typical, MS Press sense... Why do I say that? Resource Kits have traditionally been highly technical, giving you a very concise understanding of the product it covers. In the case of the Small Business Server 2000 Resource Kit, however, you're given a quick and very high-level overview of SBS2K and its component parts. There's nothing wrong with that, of course... If you want to know more each component, then buy the appropriate resource kit... For example, if you want to know about Exchange, then buy the Exchange 2000 Server Resource Kit. This book is aimed at professionals new to Small Business Server, and it succeeds in this goal. It'll give you a (very) basic grounding in how to plan, install, administer and support a network based on SBS2K. I would recommend that you buy this book to give yourself a high-level summary and quick peek at SBS2K, then to buy the Resource Kits and Administrator Guides (from MS Press) for the various components of SBS (namely Windows 2000, Exchange, ISA, and SQL).
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Summary: Don't rely on it...
Review: This long-awaited follow up to the 4.5 Resource Kit has been a great disappointment. (Don't take my word for it - go look at the comments in the SBS2000 newsgroup) I'm not into denigrating other people's work, but this book really doesn't have any plus points. To be brief: - it fails to explain essential concepts, with each chapter having hardly any logical connection with those preceding it - the text is peppered with terms and acronyms which go undefined - there are few graphic examples or practical walkthroughs - what walkthroughs there are (e.g. for setup wizards) do little beyond provide hard copy screenshots of the SBS dialog boxes - the graphic layout is poor - oversized headlines made me suspect that, in the absence of decent text, the editor resorted to padding out the book. I felt as if whoever did edit the book had no knowledge of network computing, never mind SBS. Sorry, but this is a lemon.
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