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Summary: Not unless you're a time traveler
Review: ... This book is OLD and nigh unto useless unless you frequently travel in time to the first month after MacOS X Server was released. There's a reason why brick-and-mortar stores remove books from shelves and place them on the [bargain] rack. ...
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Summary: Not unless you're a time traveler
Review: ... This book is OLD and nigh unto useless unless you frequently travel in time to the first month after MacOS X Server was released. There's a reason why brick-and-mortar stores remove books from shelves and place them on the [bargain] rack. ...
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Summary: Good for complete beginners - Bad for anyone with experience
Review: A very light and fluffy book. 3/4s of the book is filler. We don't need another book with a chapter on the OSI model, and certainly don't need this much detail on installation and configuration - it's not that hard. Most of the book illustrates and describes rather then explaining why. Certainly there is little attention paid OS X's UNIX roots (expecially OS X Server). The last few chapters are useful if you are heavily invested in using NetBoot or Mac Manager. But even in these chapters there more attention paid to screenshots and descriptions of all the checkboxes then any serious advice or advances discussion.
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Summary: Good for complete beginners - Bad for anyone with experience
Review: A very light and fluffy book. 3/4s of the book is filler. We don't need another book with a chapter on the OSI model, and certainly don't need this much detail on installation and configuration - it's not that hard. Most of the book illustrates and describes rather then explaining why. Certainly there is little attention paid OS X's UNIX roots (expecially OS X Server). The last few chapters are useful if you are heavily invested in using NetBoot or Mac Manager. But even in these chapters there more attention paid to screenshots and descriptions of all the checkboxes then any serious advice or advances discussion.
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Summary: Finally!
Review: Have spent a week with this book and found it very helpful. I admin a mid-size network of K-12, primarily AppleShare but moving to Mac OS X Server. If you have an admin background but lack Unix experience, this book is a agreat place to start. It's well-written and organized, and even manages to be funny once in awhile. If your needs run more to WebObjects and business applications, you'll need some additional books for in-depth info. If your key focus is on getting and keeping users up and running, this book will help you do just that.
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Summary: Not enough detail, Not enough information
Review: I had low expectations for this book to begin with, given the experience I have had getting answers to some specific questions about Mac OS X Server. But, oh, well, at least I didn't spend *my* money on it. If you have a thorough knowledge of Unix, a thorough knowledge of Macs and are generally intuitive about new computers then you probable already know more than what this book will tell you. I personally was hoping for answers to a number of questions. Specific examples: how to implement RAID; how to perform backups. Both of these questions were covered in less than a page each, and both were described as "yes, you should implement this feature" without telling or even *hinting* at how to do so. Argh! The book continues on in this fashion. If you are using your server for anything but NetBoot and Apple File Services, *don't get this book*! Get a Unix book instead, e.g. Aileen Frische's System Administrator's Guide (O'Reilly books). This book is very basic and should have been included with MacOSXS to begin with.
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Summary: Essential for Mac OS X Server Admins.
Review: I recently took a 2 day training course in Mac OS X Server. I wish I the book were published sooner. I could have used it in conjunction with the course. This book explains in clear detail what the OS X Server is all about and is a great reference book This book is an incredibly useful tool that is a must for administrators on the MAC OSX Server.
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Summary: Beginner's Guide
Review: I was disappointed with this book - it's great for beginner's, but offers little information that was not self evident. I didn't want a book that stated the near obvious!
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Summary: MAC OS X SERVER Administrator's Guide
Review: I was looking for a book that would be a guide to OSX Server since the information included with the software was thin at best. What I found was a text that took the little information that I found in the documentation and puffed it up to over 300 pages with not much more to offer. In all fairness I did pick up some information but it was not worth the price. I'll keep the book on the shelf but it will not be looked at often.
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Summary: MAC OS X SERVER Administrator's Guide
Review: I was looking for a book that would be a guide to OSX Server since the information included with the software was thin at best. What I found was a text that took the little information that I found in the documentation and puffed it up to over 300 pages with not much more to offer. In all fairness I did pick up some information but it was not worth the price. I'll keep the book on the shelf but it will not be looked at often.
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