November 2000
Beginner
458 pages
13h 41m
English
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Introduction
Although it may be hard to believe, until recently, hundred-year floods really happened only every hundred years, and a million dollars was considered a major lottery prize. But these days, everything's faster, bigger, and more expensive than ever. Windows 2000 is the latest computer marvel to be faster, bigger, and yes, more expensive.
Windows 2000 Professional is the successor to Windows NT Workstation 4. Like Windows NT Workstation, it's designed specifically for business applications and is a key component in a Windows Server-based network. (Windows 2000 Server is the even more expensive, complex, and powerful version of Windows 2000 designed for corporate networks.) Windows 2000 Pro is the ideal operating system to use on a Windows 2000 Server network, but it's also an excellent operating system to use on standalone computers or members of a workgroup.
On a Windows 2000 domain (the most common kind of business network), administrators can manage Windows 2000 Professional computers remotely; you can use programs that have been installed elsewhere on the network; and the network administrator's bag of tricks gains a number of highly technical capabilities.
Although Microsoft has continued revising the Windows 95/98 line (which includes Windows Me), these systems are designed for use at home. They're not the first choices for the workplace. Yes, they can hook up to Windows 2000 networks, and you can upgrade them to access Active Directory (see Section 2.2), but they ...
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