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Book:   Windows Vista Administration: The Definitive Guide
Subject:   lower level
Date:   2008-01-29 15:31:01
From:   Anonymous Reader
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

I found this book to be slightly lower-level than I would expect from an O'Reilly tome.


I assumed the book would focus mostly on administrative-level tasks, with an eye towards group policy, but instead it seemed geared towards home or small business owners rather than customers working in an enterprise environment.


There were also curious absences: the section on the command prompt for instance, omitted any reference to Powershell, instead focusing on the differences between cmd.exe and command.com, a distinction completely useless to those of us getting up to speed on Powershell. Network Access Protection was also given only a cursory mention, with a line saying that "NAP is entirely setup on the corporate network..."


For a small office or a starting sysadmin, WVA could be useful. But in a larger environment it comes up a little short.


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