Windows Server 2008 Unleashed

This book is a great starter book when somebody wants to start learing different aspects of Windows server operating system. It covers most of the functionalities and pinpoints at what is new from Windows 2003. It is not for someone who wants to become a master at Windows server system or get certified. This book helped me develop a good understanding of the system as I was implementing a new application to run on Windows 2008 system. As a part of this project we migrated the file server to Windows 2008. I could not find any information on file server migration tool kit in this book which eventually I got from Microsoft website. The writing style is engaging. Overall, I think for the price and for the intent as I mentioned this is a great book.

Bought this book to help pass the 070-649 exam and it helped do the job... It is not geared for the exam but it covers the subjet matter on the exam... Also it is the only real 2008 Server book out right now.... Cover the topics well and goes thru the installation process...

This book is a monster at 1337-pages (sorry, I don't count the 100-page index that brings this book to 1432-pages) and hard bound cover, REALLY NICE, I felt I got my money's worth! I've bought several of Rand's books in the past, this one is another winner! 37-chapters on everything from design and planning, through testing, through migrations, plus chapters on security, clustering, performance optimization, SharePoint, Hyper-V, etc. I went through the RTM product and the book, it covers everything end to end which is GREAT! Another winner, very impressive!!!

I've been waiting for a complete book on Windows 2008, and glad to have gotten in a pre-order and purchase of this book! 1400+ pages!!! I jumped straight to the migration chapter as we're looking for tips on how to plan our migration from Windows 2003. Very complete and detailed process along with tips and hints, which was great to see someone has actually done the migrations before and could share best practices! I also found the chapter on clustering and high availability (chapter 29) to cover the new Windows 2008 clustering in detail as being very helpful! And since we have several sites, Chapter 32 on branch office was a good read! I think I'm only 120 pages thru the most pertinent chapters to me, but expect to read the thing cover to cover. GREAT book, I highly recommend it!!!