Virtualization Solutions from Desktop to the Datacenter

If you've never used a Windows Server platform, this book might be useful. For someone very familiar with the Windows Server platform, and looking to learn more about Server 2008, I found this book to be too high level to be useful for any practical uses. Things you will NOT find: Information highlighting new features to Windows 2008 (for administrators of 2003) Security best practices / recommendations You will however find a good number of step-by-step instructions, unfortunately that feel like they were written for someone who has never used a computer before. A great example of what you'll find is something like this step by step: " For domain users, you define permitted logo workstations by following these steps: 1. Open the user's Properties dialog box in Active Directory Users and Computers and then click Account tab 2. Open the Logon Workstations dialog box by clicking Log On To. 3. Select The Following Computers as shown in Figure 11.6 4. Type the name of the permitted workstation and then click Add. Repeat this procedure to specify additional workstations 5. If you make a mistake, select the erroneous entry and then click Edit or Remove as appropriate. " For something that is a "pocket" guide, there is a lot of filler (like the laughable step 5 above) and discussion of topics which someone administrating a server should already know (e.g. disk formatting, folder user permissions, etc) and don't belong in a "pocket consultant". Furthermore, the book does have some incorrect statements, for example, it says that Windows Server Web only supports 2GB of RAM. It actually supports 32GB. 2GB was a Server 2003 limit [...]