Recommend a good Windows 2003 Server book

[DealMonkey]

I'm pretty comfortable with Windows XP Pro -- the ins and outs of it. So for fun, I installed Windows 2003 Server Standard on an extra box and now have it sitting on my LAN. I really need a good book that will help me learn how to manage a 2003 server. Something that isn't too involved, but yet will give me a good foundation for getting into more advanced stuff like perhaps setting up Active Directory, etc. I also really need to know the best way to secure/lock-down my server as I intend to do some port forwarding via my local router to it from the Internet. Mostly for IIS and FTP at first...

Anyway, hit me with some of your best suggestions for what book(s) I should pickup. Amazon.com links would be a nice touch too

TIA.

 

[DealMonkey]

Monday bump.

Nobody has a recommendation for me? No one?

 

[GTiBri]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi...p;s=books&n=507846

This is the book I have. It does a good job of covering the basics. Of course, I don't actually have windows 2k3 yet, I'm still waiting for the new servers to get here. But I have read through the book and it seems to be good.

 

[Smilin]

The MS Press books on 2003 are pretty good actually. Hit those for conceptual stuff. For getting an actual task done just hit the "Howto" KB articles and helpfiles.

There's Howto's for setting up active directory even. I would lean more towards books for some of the needed underlying concepts like DNS for instance.

 

[dc5]

i actually find more of my information on windows 2003 from the internet rather than books, but that's only because i'm too lazy to read books.

 

[DealMonkey]

Cool thanks for the suggestions. I use the Internet and howto files pretty extensively too, it's just I like to have a "bible" handy that I can refer to if I'm doing something specific and want to read more in depth on it.

 

[kkeller]

I have been using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Unleashed By Samspublishing and it has been very helpful in moving from NT 4.0 to a 2003 server.

 

[bloinkXP]

Get the Mark Minasi book.
I use it as a reference.