MCSE Training Kit
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With this official MCSE TRAINING KIT, IT professionals learn how to set up and support Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server to optimize network performance and security. As they build these essential… More >>
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This book is very detailed and I like it a lot, but in order for it to be truly effective, you need to be able to set up BizTalk Server 2000 and play with it along with the book. However, in order to do this, you need, according to the book:
(A) One computer running Windows 2000 Server (pref Adv Server if you want to do more of the robust features) on which you would install SQL Server 2000
(B) Another computer running Win 2K Server (or Adv Server again) on which you would install BizTalk Server 2000
(C) A Win 2K domain with ADS to connect to, so you’ll probably need another computer running Win 2K server with DHCP, DNS, ADS installed
(D) Ideally, another computer to use as your workstation
(E) If you want to do any Clustering or Network Load Balancing (NLB), you’ll need even more machines
So, just keep in mind what you’re getting into. BizTalk is a great tool and very powerful and, as I stated before, the book is extrememly useful, but the hardware required to go along with the examples is a bit daunting.
Rating: 3 / 5
A definite “must have” when working for your certification. The information is to the point and easily understood. I would recommend this kit to anyone wanting to achieve MCSE
Rating: 4 / 5
Some things to keep in mind -
1) BizTalk is not a toy – it is an enterprise tool – so of course you will need enterprise level hw/sw requirements to set it up and use it
2) Don’t judge the quality of the book based on the requirements of the software
3) Please re-write your review to cover the book, not your issues with using the software
Rating: 5 / 5
Don’t waste your time on this book. Author repeats himself, and covers a lot of stuff that are less relevant. Book not well organized.
Rating: 2 / 5
First of all let me say that I am not an expert in any of Microsoft OSes (although I am a NT Server 4.0 MCP currently working on the 2K curriculum). However, I consider this book to be aimed at a buyer’s mass of which I am a part. Now for the book: As with Microsoft’s study guide for NT 4.0, this book seems to be well organized and well written at first glance. For instance, each subtopic starts with a overview of which practical skills you are about to acquire. Also, at the end of each subtopic you will find a summary. These neatly provide for “mental hooks” to hang the new material on to. The problem is, however, that the main bulk of text is rather poorly written. I find it rather messy to be quite frank with you.
Let me speak metaphorically here: To complete a puzzle, a person A would start by finding to pieces that matched and put them together. After that she would probably try to find another piece to be connected to any of the previous two. After only 10 pieces or so are fitted together, things become easier because she would spot a certain pattern. Person B clings to the Microsoft way of solving the same puzzle: Once two pieces are fitted together, these are put aside and the search starts for a completely separate pair of pieces that matches. Which one method would you, the reader, prefer? As for myself I would claim the first method to be a logical and well-structured step-by-step process (or should I say piece-by-piece
) making it easy to assimilate new pieces into the ongoing puzzle. For the Microsoft method, things are quite blurry while pieces are being put together in separate pairs. With a complete set of pairs, there remains the important task of putting all the pairs together to make up the complete puzzle.
Using the first method, the puzzle will be completed in due time and this is where a lucid and well-written book ends. Mission accomplished. Using the Microsoft method, you get to a point where you sit there with your bunch of separate pairs, and at this point the Microsoft book ends.
After reading each subtopic in the Microsoft-book your mind is filled only with fragments of knowledge, and it is up to you to put these fragments together into real knowledge.
Rating: 2 / 5