Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Services (Academic Learning Series)

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Summary: Needs Work
Review: Generally used by schools as either a requirement of a "partnership" program or because they are generally the first texts on the market describing the new Microsoft products the Academic Learning Series has the feel of something that was rushed to market and contains incorrect information(ex. a Novell network is based on a workgroup ) and alot of concepts presented in the text are not explained in any sufficent detail so as to justify their appearance in the text. An example being a reparce point, which is defined as somenting that adds functionallity to the file system, this is the extent of the definition given. The books of this series are definately supplemental material and if the course is taught by a tallented individual they have their place. However if your instructor is going straight from the material presented it will not provide as good of a learning experience as an unbiased text might.