MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exams 70-292 and 70-296): Upgrading Your Certification to Microsoft® Windows Server¿ 2003

click here for more details, find new or used items	Editors Dan Holme and Orin Thomas Our price £31.19 (£47.99) New from £3.45 Used from £3.98 Pages: 1000 (Hardcover) ISBN: 0735619719 Pub: MICROSOFT PRESS Pub date: 2003-10-01 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 158248

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Excellent ! (2/2 people found this helpful)

Having studied MCSE 2000 I used mostly Sybex but was impressed with the one Microsoft book I did buy so I plumped for Microsoft for this exam and I am glad I did. I have gone through the whole book; it is excellently written with clear explanations and diagrams and is not confusing in the slightest. I have not even got to the CD yet but even without it I am sure I will pass my exam easily!

Thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who maybe is not 100% clued up and so just needs that little bit extra detail in the explanation to get through. Perhaps if you are already an expert you would not want such a voluminous book but would want a more concise version just to focus on the changes from 2000 only. But all in all a worthwhile and (dare I say it) enjoyable read and study!

Questions and Answers are very clear also.

Happy Studying!!!

Philip Anderson

Excellent book! (5/6 people found this helpful)

I think this book is a one of a kind. I have previously read all the MCSE 2000 books and was disappointed to find the same topics come up book after book (i.e. for 70-216 exam you had to read over all the stuff about user accounts that you were taught in the 70-215 book, in order to pick out a few gems that would make the difference in for the exam).

I think the way this book is written is rather useful, i find the hands on exercises throughout the chapters very useful, and would advise anybody to grab a hold of VMWare or Virtual PC (and a gig of ram if you dont have one). Set up a few difference DC's in different forests and such and have a play around with your domain and forest trusts. I find the VM's were very useful for disk management (where you can emulate a machine with up to 8 drives and create all types of partitions and volumes) and would recommend its use for any kind of study requiring multiple machine.

A useful way to get around the activation is to install a server on the VM and take a snapshot immediately, you can then clone this machine for any future domain controllers/member servers etc that you wish to create. You can then revert the initial server to the snapshot when the activation nears expiration and now you have a full 30 days or whatever to make new clones of.

MCSE 2003 On its way (3/3 people found this helpful)

YEP ... this does the trick ... good to follow, tips n pointers ... expect to require further reading on certain chapters before you move on to the next ... this book wont let you skim through ... its what you need for yr MCSE 2003

Get onlne n download the evaluation of server2003 yr on to a winner.

Could be much shorter! (7/7 people found this helpful)

Having just passed my MCSE in 2000 i was looking to upgrade to server 2003. Since i had used the Microsoft Press books for other exams i figured i would stick with them for the upgrade.
With this book i found myself covering a lot of stuff i already knew, yes there is details of the changes in 2003, but as another reviewer mentioned, those changes could have been outlined i a fraction of the pages in this book. As far as MS Press books go this is by far the clearest and well set out i have read.

This book is more of a complete overview of Server 2003, rather than whats changed since 2000 Server.

HIghs and Lows (3/3 people found this helpful)

I read the previous reviews with regards to this book and thought I'd purchase it. What the reviewers ommited to tell us is the following. This book covers a large amount of what I learnt in windows 2000, from the whole book this is what i learnt - shadow copying, few DNS changes, few AD changes, Terminal service changes, SUS and few other things. My point is the if you know windows 2000 this book overlaps alot, if you know XP aswell then you knows certain features of 2003 already. This book is a exam book but is well written and has good pratice sections. I was looking for a book with just the updates in it. I could have learnt all I needed if the book was a quarter of it's size. Half the book is focused on exam prep. This may be the book for some people but for those whom have the qualiications and experience maybe not ? is there anything better out there ?

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