Product Description

Learn how to deliver faster, more secure Web access to your business—and prepare for the Microsoft® Certified Professional (MCP) exam—with this official Microsoft study guide. Work through the lessons and hands-on exercises to gain practical experience using Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 to optimize network performance and security. As you build these real-world support skills, you’re also preparing for MCP Exam 70-227—a key elective on the MCSE/MCSA tracks. HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL LEARN. • Installing ISA Server, including upgrading from Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 • Setting up hosting roles, VPNs, dial-up connections, and an H.323 Gatekeeper • Creating and administering access control and bandwidth policies • Configuring clients for secure network address translation, firewall software, and other services • Managing arrays of multiple ISA Server computers • Applying forward and reverse caching for faster Web connectivity • Monitoring server performance with alerts, logs, reports, and performance counters • Troubleshooting problems with access, network usage, and security HERE’S WHAT’S INSIDE. • Comprehensive self-paced training manual that maps to MCP exam goals and objectives • Skill-building exercises that help you apply what you learn to the job • Summaries and end-of-chapter review questions to help gauge your progress • 120-day evaluation version of ISA Server 2000 Enterprise Edition • All the book’s content on CD-ROM

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #672514 in Books
• Published on: 2001-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 656 pages

From the Publisher
Provides self-paced, from-the-source information and practice with the skills measured by MCP Exam 70-229—an elective on the Windows 2000 MCSE track and a core exam for MCDBA certification

From the Author
About the Technology: BizTalk Server 2000 unites, in a single product, enterprise application integration (EAI), business-to-business integration, and the advanced BizTalk Orchestration technology to allow developers, IT professionals, and business analysts to easily build dynamic business processes that span applications, platforms, and businesses over the Internet.

• Quickly Build Dynamic Business Processes: The BizTalk Server infrastructure helps you integrate, manage, and automate dynamic business processes by exchanging business documents among applications, and within or across organizational boundaries. With all the tools that companies need for business process orchestration, BizTalk Server helps you build processes that span not only applications, but also businesses, over the Internet. Graphical tools make it easy for analysts and developers to model and implement these processes. • Easily Integrate Applications and Business Partners: BizTalk Server 2000 makes it easy to integrate applications and businesses together with a host of rich graphical tools for building Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema, performing schema transformation, establishing trading partner relationships over the Internet, and tracking and analyzing data and documents that are exchanged. With XML and standard Internet transport and security technologies support, BizTalk Server 2000 extends the features of traditional e-commerce and electronic data interchange (EDI) to entire e-commerce communities. • Ensure Interoperability Using Public StandardsWith extensive support for public standards and specifications, such as XML, EDI, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and security standards like public key encryption, digital signatures, and encryption, BizTalk Server 2000 ensures the highest level of interoperability and security with your applications and business partners.

Customer Reviews

Excellent, but not enough
Very good book, nice to read. the concepts are explain clearly. A bit verbose sometimes but that's what makes it "readable".
Definitely NOT enough details to prepare for the exam, it is a good overview of the concepts.
The review questions are MUCH easier than the ones of the exam so don't count on that to evaluate yourself.

THE Windows 2000 Security Book...
This book covers all security features of Win2K like NTFS, EFS, security templates, ...
It also cover a lot of security issues which are not specific to W2K but that W2K use or implement: IPSec, VPN, Firewall, DMZ, PKI, Radius, SSL, Kerberos, SNMP, etc...
It also explain how to secure all W2K services at the maximum (RIS, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Group policy, Active directory and Trust relationship, Telnet, Terminal services, ...)
Because W2K is much more secure than older Windows version (W9x, NT40), implementing the maximum W2K security could result in a loss of compatibility with these old systems.
This book just explains how to deal with that issue, and how to increase NT40 or W9x security (for example to support NTLMV2 or SMB signing)
There is also an interesting Chapter about interoperability with UNIX, Novell, Macintosh, LINUX, SAMBA,..
What about the form?
Each chapter begin with a case study. Then, after each explanation of a security concept, the book explains how to apply this concept to the case study. It doesn't forget explanation about why this or that solution is the correct one.
Probably one the best MS-Press Book I've read ...
A Must-have for every IT administrator or architect who cares about W2K security! I recommend it highly!

Not enough
A good overview but Microsoft's own exam preparation guide poses test questions which are unanswerable based on the material in this book alone. Replication and the system functions are two areas in particular which are not adequately covered. A comprehensive text - such as Robert Vieira's SQL Server 2000 Programming (Wrox Press) - is required as a companion to this training kit in order to pass.