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Microsoft Windows XP Professional Resource Kit

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Resource Kit
By Charlie Russel, Sharon Crawford, Microsoft Windows Team, Microsoft Windows Server Team, Microsoft Windows Team The, The Microsoft Windows Team

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The definitive resource for installing, managing, and supporting Windows XP Professional-with in-depth technical information and tools from the Microsoft Windows team. Includes new coverage of Windows XP Service Pack 2 and updated security features.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #87352 in Books
  • Brand: Microsoft
  • Published on: 2005-02-09
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 5.00 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 1568 pages

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About the Author

Andy Rathbone wrote all the previous editions of Windows(R) For Dummies(R) and Windows NT(R) For Dummies(R). Sharon Crawford, a Microsoft MVP, has written books on Windows NT Server and Windows 98.

Customer Reviews

Updated and already helping me out.5
Usually when a book is release as a 2nd or 3rd edition, the publisher is just updating the content to reflect the new features or releases of the software. This book is just that and a little bit more.

This book takes apart the XP operating system from stem to stern and everything in between. Taking it from the deployment to remote users to desktop configuration. In most case that would be enough, but here's where the book is updated.

Adding over 200 pages on security, you will find that book is far more than a Resource kit, it may also be used as a study guide for the 70-270 exam.

The cd was also updated with over 120 utilities and a couple of e-books, including the entire text in e-book format. Another thing I liked about the text is that throughout the book there are step by step procedures to show you hoe to configure, manage or administrate different parts of the OS.

Overall I have been able to use this in my job several times within the past 2 months with the XP upgrade I was involved in. I am certainly glad to have this in my technical library.

Well Written and Up to Date5
Written by the husband and wife team of Russel and Crawford, this is not only a complete text on just about everything you can do with XP Professional, but is (for a complex computer book) easy to read.

In addition to the usual here's how to do that instructions that you would expect, this book goes into other aspects of moving to XP Professional like planning the deployment, automating the installation process, and working in a multilingual atmosphere.

As seems to have become Microsoft standard practice, the CD includes a fully searchable eBook of this complete text and a couple of other books. It also has some 120 tools and utilities to assist in the administration of both clients and servers.

This is the third edition of this book, it includes feedback from readers of the first two editions and is updated to include Service Pack 2, the most recent update to XP (at the time of this writing). This update contains major changes to XP, particularily in the area of security. This alone makes previous editions almost useless.

One of the three books I used to study for my MCDST5
I found this book incredibly useful. It was the right balance of depth and breadth. This book is particularly useful for two groups of people:

1) If you're part of a Windows XP rollout team for your company, your team needs this book.
2) If you're going to be supporting users who are using Windows XP, this book is critical to your success.

Detailed, thorough, and well organized. Definitely choose this one over the older version, "Windows XP Documentation," also from Microsoft.