Designing Windows 2000 Networks (Paperback: Illustrated: 400 pages)

-- Easy-to-understand examples throughout -- including real-world deployment options for small, mid-sized, and large companies.

-- Covers Active Directory, DNS, WINS, native/mixed modes, domain structures, migration and failure prevention, unattended installation, optimization, and much more.

-- Contains extensive illustrations, including more than 15 network diagrams.

Windows 2000 promises unprecedented power and flexibility -- but only if IT professionals design their networks to take full advantage of its capabilities. In this comprehensive, hands-on guide, leading Microsoft technology consultant Ed Wilson shows how. Wilson presents high-level overviews of every major consideration in Windows 2000 network design, then drills down to the technical details -- providing specific guidance for planning, prototyping, and deployment. Designing Windows 2000 Networks covers the Windows 2000 deployment process from start to finish. Ed Wilson offers proven advice for assembling teams, planning migration, minimizing risk, avoiding pitfalls associated with structuring domains, working with native and mixed mode, providing appropriate infrastructure, prototyping, fine-tuning, and debugging performance. Coverage includes: designing for Active Directory, DNS, and WINS; unattended installations; troubleshooting, and much more. Wilson uses extensive illustrations and network diagrams, and walks through detailed scenarios for large enterprises, mid-sized companies, and small businesses. For every IT professional who has implemented or is planning to implement a Windows 2000-based network.