Microsoft Windows 2000 Performance Tuning Technical Reference

You really need this book on your shelf. This book is packed with really useful information in an easy to read format. I found that the book's organization makes that information easy to find. The authors don't spend a lot of time telling you things that are nice to know, but don't fix problems. They tell you what types of problems you'll see, solutions to fix them, and how to avoid the problem in the future. This has been one of the better administrative tool purchases I've made.

When I first started working with Windows 2000, I found Microsoft's documentation difficult to use, problem specific, and hard to understand. This book helped me get to the root of the performance problems with my server in a reasonably short time. I found all of the information provided by the authors was right on the mark and that unlike other books I've read, this one didn't assume I was some type of networking guru. This book is great because it covers both older and state-of-the-art network technology. I was really happy to find detailed information on fiber optics and SANs. I suppose that if you're already a networking guru that some of this information might fall into the common sense category, but for the me the book is indispensible.

The old saying "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link" is especially true of servers. If you've got bottlenecks, you're not getting the performance you should. Whether you're working with LANs, WANs or the Internet, you'll find lots of solid advice in this excellent book. If you want to improve the performance of a Windows 2000 system (and who doesn't?), this is the book for you. You'll learn to monitor, diagnose, manage, tweak, optimize, fine-tune and, in general, make the most of Windows 2000. These authors know what they're talking about! I had the pleasure of co-authoring a book last year with John Paul Mueller and I can tell you first hand how hard he works to research and write accurate, understandable books.

This is a good basic performance management reference tool. The emphasis is on providing info on basic performance monitoring techniques - should be useful!