FW: Windows 2000 Active Directory

[Brandon Gohsman]

Greetings everyone!

I have a new potential book from our new liason at O'Reilly and some other
details. And, since our last meeting (or, I should say, the last meeting I
was at), we have received some new books from O'Reilly:

  a.. XML Pocket Reference by Robert Eckstein
  b.. Guide to Oracle8i Features by Steven Feuerstein
  c.. Oracle SAP Administration by Donald K. Burleson
  d.. Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic by Steven Roman
  e.. PhotoShop for the Web by Mikkel Aaland
  f.. Java in a Nutshell (third edition) by David Flanagan
  g.. Learning Debian GNU/Linux by Bill McCarty
  h.. Using Samba by Eckstein, Collier-Brown & Kelly
Most of those have showed up just since the new year. Our original liason at
O'Reilly had left back in November. We had a temporary liason for a while.
And now we have a new, permanent one again, Denise Olliffe. Things have been
pretty quiet from O'Reilly since December. Hopefully, they will pick up a
bit now.

Anyway, let me know if there are any takers on the following Windows 2000
Active Directory book.

Thanks,

Brandon


-----Original Message-----
From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo at oreilly.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 4:05 PM
To: brandon at squareonedesign.com
Subject: Windows 2000 Active Directory


For Review Copy Contact:  Denise Olliffe at deniseo at oreilly.com
http://www.oreilly.com

"Microsoft's Future of Win 2000 Rests on Active Directory"
says O'Reilly Author

Sebastopol, CA-According to author Alistar G. Lowe-Norris, "Active
Directory is the single most important aspect of the Windows 2000
server line of products. Microsoft's future of Windows 2000 rests on
this product." Active Directory is a fully qualified directory service.
It is such an important change, that systems administrators are likely
to find coming to grips with Active Directory will be one of their
biggest headaches. But it doesn't have to be that way. A new book by
Lowe-Norris, Windows 2000 Active Directory (O'Reilly, $39.95), gives
administrators an in-depth knowledge of AD.

"Microsoft's Windows 2000 Active Directory is finally released in the
Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server products on
February 17th 2000", says Lowe-Norris. "Many Windows NT technical
architects and systems administrators will be coming to Windows 2000
with little experience on the Active Directory. A proper design process
needs to be considered for this product, with manageability
post-deployment in the minds of the designers. Management of the Active
Directory can be reduced using Group Policy Objects, with day-to-day
management achieved using the given tools or ones that you create
yourself using scripting technologies like ADSI and ADO.  I wanted to
explain the complex subject of the Active Directory in simple terms so
that the benefits of it could be gained quickly for all size
organizations."

Windows 2000 Active Directory focuses on the practical, hands-on
information you need to design a reliable, scalable, and manageable
Active Directory for any size organization. Instead of a
screen-by-screen description of the graphical user interface, this book
focuses on the tasks you need to perform to manage your organization's
directory effectively. The heavy emphasis on scripting with the ADSI
will help you automate tasks to achieve greater reliability and save
time. Windows 2000 Active Directory is a practical guide to the new
technology for the overworked system or network administrator.

About the author:
Alistair G. Lowe-Norris currently works as an enterprise program
manager at Microsoft and previous to that was a system administrator at
Leicester University in the UK. For the past two years, he has been
responsible for the rollout of Windows 2000 and the replacement of the
existing NetWare installation at the university. He holds an MCSE and
MCIS, and is a frequent contributor to Windows NT Magazine.


Chapter 8, Profiles and Group Policy Primer, is free online at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/win2000ads/chapter/ch08.html s For more
information about the book, including Table of Contents, index, author
bio, and samples, see:  http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/win2000ads/

For a cover graphic in jpeg format, go to:
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/1565926382.jpg


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Windows 2000 Active Directory
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
1st Edition January 2000
1-56592-638-2, 642 pages, $39.95
order at oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
http://www.oreilly.com



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