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Learning Windows Server 2003 Review by John Wismar
Presumes significant experience
I don't know if "Learning..." was the right title for this book. It assumes the reader has a fair amount of server administration experience, and therefore leaves many terms and concepts undefined. (Personally, I'm a software developer, but haven't done this type of system administration, so I'm a newbie in this field.)
What this book provides is a fairly comprehensive tour of the various configuration programs and dialogs that are provided by Windows Server 2003. If you are an experienced SysAdmin, and want to find out how to locate a specific configuration option, this may well be a valuable book for you. Because I need to find out why various options are important, I did not find this book very helpful.
An example may be in order, and this one jumped out at me. There's a page that describes how to add an ISAPI filter to IIS. Click this button to add, click this other button to remove, click this third button to move it up the list, etc. There was no discussion about what an ISAPI filter is, and why I might want to add one.
So again, if you already know what you're doing, but need a tour of Windows Server 2003 configuration, this book will help you. I'm going to look for another book.