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"Windows NT Server 4 Administrator's Guide", Paul E. Robichaux, 1996,
0-7615-0751-5, U$50.00/C$69.95/UK#46.99
%A   Paul E. Robichaux paul@ljl.com
%C   3875 Atherton Road, Rocklin, CA   95765
%D   1996
%G   0-7615-0751-5
%I   Prima Publishing
%O   U$50.00/C$69.95/UK#46.99 800-632-8676 fax: 916-632-4405
%O   jonna@primapub.com julieb@indy.primapub.com
%P   792
%T   "Windows NT Server 4 Administrator's Guide"

This is a Windows book.  This is a "Plug 'n' Play" book.  In other
words, this book will get you started, up, running, and using the
Windows NT Server system -- as long as you don't run into any
problems.

The introduction suggests three basic audiences:  experienced network
administrators who don't know NT, experienced NT Workstation users who
don't know networking, and professional network planners.  (In other
words, pretty much anyone except rank amateurs.)  This is a fair
assessment.  The book does not cover the workstation or user aspects
of NT, but concentrates on network and server functions and
applications.

The material, however, is a kind of once-over-lightly treatment of the
topic.  While there are some tips and suggestions, most of what is to
be found in the book can be figured out by a perusal of NT Server's
menus, and a few recourses to the help files.  Even the structure of
the book seems to follow from applications, menus, and dialogue boxes
in NT.

As it happens, the day before reviewing this book, I was helping to
set up a new NT server box.  The installation sections of the book do
address the topics we had trouble with, but would have been only of
the most marginal assistance, and would not have helped at all with
the solutions we eventually had to adopt.

copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997   BKWNT4AG.RVW  970915