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Managing Windows NT Server 4 by Howard Hilliker
ISBN: 1-56205-576-3       Publisher: New Riders Pub.       Pages: 1005pp + CD       Price: £46-99
Microsoft Windows NT4 Server Resource Kit by Various
Recommended
ISBN: 1-57231-344-7       Publisher: Microsoft Press       Pages: 3volpp + CD       Price: £?
Microsoft Windows NT4 Workstation Resource Kit by Microsoft Corporation
Recommended
ISBN: 1-57231-343-9       Publisher: Microsoft Press       Pages: 1350pp + CD       Price: £64-99
Windows NT 4.0 Installation & Configuration Management by Jim Boyce
ISBN: 0-7897-0818-3       Publisher: Que       Pages: 798pp + CD       Price: £41-99
Categories:   MS Windows    
Reviewed by Francis Glassborow in C Vu 9-3 (Mar 1997)
I recently moved my in house network server to Windows NT 4 and had a couple of clients want to move to either NT Server or Workstation so it was time to look at the literature. I would guess that most moving to the Server versions are not overly worried by cost which is just as well because I have mislaid the price of Microsoft Windows NT Server Resource Kit .. Fundamentally if you use either version the Resource kits are the books to buy. They contain just about all you need to know and quite a lot that you do not.

If you were in a position where cost was significant but you needed a good guide to NT 4 Server I think you would be satisfied with Hilliker's text. It is more compact but covers all the essential ground. In the case of the NT Workstation I think I would stretch to the extra rather than buy Boyce' book.


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