The Bottom Line
- Valuable and useful information
- Another great book in the O'Reilly 'Hacks' series
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Description
- The O'Reilly 'Hacks' series is an excellent series of no-nonsense tricks and tips you can use
- Mitch Tulloch and the myITforum.com contributors have compiled the tips and tricks you need
- Tips are devised into sections for easy reference like Active Directory, Deployment, IIS and more
- Security section contains 10 tips you can use to keep your Windows server or network secure
Guide Review - Book Review: Windows Server Hacks
The 'Hacks' series of books from O'Reilly provides an excellent and concise resource that you can fall back on to find the tips and tricks to help you be one of the great administrators. Windows Server Hacks is filled with 100 tips, tricks and tools that have been battle-tested by other administrators and are now compiled in one place for your benefit.
Many of the tips involve some form of scripting. The code is given to you right in the tips and you can use Notepad to create the script so you don't have to be a programmer or even have the programming language development program (such as Visual Basic) installed on your computer per se, but it will help if you can at least decipher some of what you are typing in. If you make a typo along the way it may help you to find it if you have at least a basic understanding of what the program is trying to do.
Mitch Tulloch and the many, many columnists and contributors to myITforum.com have distilled years of knowledge and first-hand experience into these 100 tips and tricks from the frontlines. Before you pull out your hair learning the hard way, read this book to find out if someone else already pulled their hair out to create the tip for you.
