Essential Windows NT System Administration

By Æleen Frisch
First Edition January 1998
Pages: 484
ISBN 10: 1-56592-274-3 | ISBN 13: 9781565922747
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Book description

This book combines practical experience with technical expertise to help you manage Windows NT systems as productively as possible. It covers the standard utilities offered with the Windows NT operating system and from the Resource Kit, as well as important commercial and free third-party tools. By the author of O'Reilly's bestselling book, Essential System Administration.
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Windows NT systems are often said to "manage themselves." This book is for those times when things don't quite work out that way, when somebody who knows what's going on needs to intervene. Essential Windows NT System Administration helps you manage Windows NT systems as productively as possible, making the task as pleasant and satisfying as can be. It combines practical experience with technical expertise, helping you to work smarter and more efficiently. It not only covers the standard utilities offered with the Windows NT operating system, but also those from the Resource Kit, as well as important commercial and free third-party tools. It also pays particular attention to developing your own tools by writing scripts in Perl and other languages to automate common tasks. Essential Windows NT System Administration covers:

How Windows NT systems boot and how to shut them down
User account administration, including tips for managing large numbers of accounts
Creating file systems, including striped and fault-tolerant file systems, and securing their contents from unauthorized access
Sharing file systems via the network, using Windows NT's native share facility and other facilities such as Samba and NFS
General and advanced network configuration, including DHCP, DNS, WINS, routing, and RAS
Managing printers, including local printers, network printers, and printer pools
Managing processes, including the Windows NT schedule service, as well as performance optimization and capacity planning
Securing Windows NT systems, including implementing security policies and system auditing

This book covers the workstation and server versions of Windows NT 4.0 on both Intel and Alpha processor-based systems. AEleen Frisch is a Windows NT and UNIX system administrator, and is the author of several books, including O'Reilly's bestselling Essential System Administration.

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Essential Windows NT System Administration Review, July 13 2001

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Submitted by Emmanuel Verbeeck   [Respond | View]

Again an extremely good book. I bought 2 copies, one for my main office and one for home! The typical to-the-point, no-nonsense writing style of O'Reilly. Higly recommended.

Essential Windows NT System Administration Review, July 21 1999
Submitted by Neil Sherin   [Respond | View]

A great book - small enough to carry around and focuses on what the System Administrator needs to do and what tools are available for her/him to carry out the task and not the other way round, as those 1000+ page books often do!

Essential Windows NT System Administration Review, May 23 1999
Submitted by Graham B. Rose   [Respond | View]

Excellent!!! I have several o'Reilly Animal books,
and "Essential Windows NT Administration" is no exception!!!! It is very consise and to the point - none of that thousand page fluff of crap that you'll find from other publishers such as Que!!
If there is an O'Reilly book on the subject, I'll buy before any other!! Infinite stars to O'Reilly's quality!!!

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Essential Windows NT System Administration Review, April 09 1999
Submitted by Amanda Bolton [Respond | View]

I am new to NT Administration and I have found this book an excellent companion. I have found myself using it as a vital reference book as well as an easy book to read when wanting to further my knowledge.

Essential Windows NT System Administration Review, September 15 1998
Submitted by Leonard [Respond | View]

Good reference. Short and to the point.

Media reviews "O'Reilly and Aeleen Frisch to the rescue! Essential Windows NT System Administration breaks the mold and closes the information gap for NT administrators. Ms. Frisch has been responsible for a variety of VMS, UNIX, and Windows NT systems for some 15 years, and she clearly has an unusually thorough understanding of what it takes in the way of skills, knowledge, and resources to keep a industrial-strength network of servers and clients running smoothly over a long period of time. How fortunate for us all that she appears to have a generous allotment of writing and organizational talent as well.

"By the time I had finished the first chapter, it was evident to me that Frisch approached Windows NT from a completely different perspective than most NT book authors. Instead of browsing Microsoft's sorry excuses for documentation and trying to figure out how she could cover the same ground using different words, she drew up a list of things she had to know and tasks she had to accomplish based on her VMS and UNIX background, and then set out to find their Windows NT counterparts. A startlingly adult strategy!

"The result is an eminently practical book that is light-years beyond its competitors in usability and credibility. The security chapter, which organizes its discussion from the standpoint of what is needed rather than what Windows NT most easily does, is an outstanding example of the strength of Frisch's approach. Throughout the book, Ms. Frisch's methods are eclectic and ecumenical. Her goal is to get the job done quickly and reliably, and she will use whatever tool works best, whether it be graphically-based, command-line, custom script, or third-party utility."

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