Windows 2000 Server System Administration Handbook

Many organizations and network administrators are looking for information on Windows 2000 and its new features. IT professionals responsible for installing, configuring, and managing Microsoft products will be highly motivated to migrate to this new technology, based on its promise of reducing administrative overhead. Windows 2000 Server System Administration Handbook will help NT4 professionals to administer and support the Windows 2000 Server operating system. NT administrators will be able to differentiate the features and technology changes from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000. In the handbook, readers will find a complete overview of the product, catered to their needs. * This book coincides with the launch of Windows 2000 Server, the host system for the product. * Includes the following: * Detailed coverage of Active Directory, Microsoft Management Console, and new Windows 2000 hardware support * Implementing new Windows 2000 security options * Upgrading a network to Windows 2000

Many organizations and network administrators are looking for information on Windows 2000 and its new features. IT professionals responsible for installing, configuring, and managing Microsoft products will be highly motivated to migrate to this new technology, based on its promise of reducing administrative overhead. Windows 2000 Server System Administration Handbook will help NT4 professionals to administer and support the Windows 2000 Server operating system. NT administrators will be able to differentiate the features and technology changes from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000. In the handbook, readers will find a complete overview of the product, catered to their needs. * This book coincides with the launch of Windows 2000 Server, the host system for the product. * Includes the following: * Detailed coverage of Active Directory, Microsoft Management Console, and new Windows 2000 hardware support * Implementing new Windows 2000 security options * Upgrading a network to Windows 2000

Beginning with a detailed overview of Windows 2000 concepts, this real-world guide covers every day-to-day administration task: users, group policies, security, backup, and more. Also included is a handy quick-reference guide covering the most important commands in both the core operating system and the Windows 2000 Resource Kit toolset.

This book focuses on the subject and skills necessary to successfully administer a Windows 2000 network. It presents Windows 2000 broken down by systems administration tasks.

Anyone who installs Windows 2000, creates a user or adds a printer is a 2000 system administrator. This book supplies the tools for performing the important day-to-day administrative tasks in a handy, easy-to-look-up alphabetical reference, and addresses the problems associated with bridging the gap between the Windows NT and Windows 2000 platform.

-- Not only explains the new features of Windows .NET Server 2003, but also provides continued support for Windows 2000 administration.-- Covers changes in security, Active Directory, Microsoft Management Console, and integration with the .NET Framework, among many others changes.Windows .NET Server 2003 is the first Microsoft product that is innately affected by the company's recent Trustworthy Computing initiative. If this is successful, this will be the most stable, reliable, and dependable server OS that Microsoft has ever released. It will also feature an integrated environment with the .NET Framework and the Common Language Runtime. The Ultimate Windows .NET Server 2003 System Administrator's Guide is an essential resource for planning, deploying, and administering a Windows .NET enterprise system. The authors draw on years of experience designing and administering Windows NT and UNIX systems in order to guide you through the varied tasks involved in real-world system administration. There are detailed discussions of key Windows .NET Server administrative functions, and descriptions of many advanced tools and optional components. In addition the authors have included a comprehensive and convenient command reference.

Inequality in Education: Comparative and International Perspectives is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes a series of methods for measuring education inequalities. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on global trends in the distribution of formal schooling in national populations. It also offers a strategic comparative and international education policy statement on recent shifts in education inequality, and new approaches to explore, develop and improve comparative education and policy research globally. Contributing authors examine how education as a process interacts with government finance policy to form patterns of access to education services. In addition to case perspectives from 18 countries across six geographic regions, the volume includes six conceptual chapters on topics that influence education inequality, such as gender, disability, language and economics, and a summary chapter that presents new evidence on the pernicious consequences of inequality in the distribution of education. The book offers (1) a better and more holistic understanding of ways to measure education inequalities; and (2) strategies for facing the challenge of inequality in education in the processes of policy formation, planning and implementation at the local, regional, national and global levels.

Now, there's a complete system administrator's guide to integrating Windows 2000 seamlessly with the six leading versions of UNIX, including Linux. This volume covers the entire administration lifecycle, from planning through day-to-day management, based on a decade of experience at one of the largest integrated UNIX/Windows environments in the world, Georgia Tech.