All New and Revised. Second Printing. Completely reformatted with updated contect (crisper and additional test questions, etc...). Photos and much more!!! Features Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS) Use the world's first book to profile Microsoft's new Small Business Specialist partner program to "get on the train" and improve your station in life as a small-medium business (SMB) consultant focused on Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS). This book tells you all you need to know to become a Small Business Specialist! All of the prerequisite certification exams and the sales assessment are covered in an "exam cram" format to help you "FAST PASS" your testing requirements. Special emphasis is placed on the 70-282 "Designing, Deploying, and Managing a Network Solution for a Small- and Medium-Sized Business." Don’t delay – use this SMB and SBS networking book to increase your financial net worth TODAY! This book is used by Microsoft in its' Small Business Specialist Hands On Lab, also used by Best Buy and other major Microsoft partners for internal training. SMB Nation uses this book for its' worldwide HP/Microsoft learning workshop tour.
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: My review Comment: This bood was very well written and give lots of information on how to pass this test. But since it release the test has been updated and so has a new review guide, it can be found on smbnation.com. But still this is a good first book to get you started on the road to passing the test and setting up Small Business Server. Customer Rating: Summary: Wait for the Rewritten version. Comment: This book is approaching the end of it's life for usefulness. The Authors have a new version of the material to be released in December that should resolve the shortcomings of this book. The 70-282 exam has changed since this book was released and effectively makes this insufficient on it's own for passing the exam. The author's do have a good addendum downloadable from their web site to fill in the gaps. The information presented here is useful and relevent to Small Business server if the exam is not the goal. If you are buying it to prep for the exam, You will probably need to download the Addendum, and gain some hands on experience to get through it.
Customer Rating: Summary: Might have been ok for exam before revision Comment: I just passed the test today after studying this book. The exam is no longer based on SBS alone, and most questions 60% could not be answered by this book.
I did like the style though.
It was probably ok for the earlier test. Customer Rating: Summary: Less than I hoped Comment: I purchased this book with the hope that it would help me prepare for the 70-282 exam. Actually, it appeared to be more of a topic over view for someone who has a great deal of experience with SBS 2003. I found that the author rambled a lot and left major gaps in the necessary information. There were a lot of references to material that was never explained, other than to plug two other books that he had written which supposedly had the answers. I didn't buy them because I felt the organization here was so poor. In addition, he provides case studies as quiz material, and the content involves questions on materials not covered in the text.
The other major problem is that this book is outdated. It doesn't cover SBS 2003 R2, nor does it handle Vista. As a result, some of the guidance is simply wrong now.
I finally purchased another book which has been very helpful in learning SBS 2003. I will go back through this book later before taking the exam, and hopefully it will be helpful then. Customer Rating: Summary: Worst book ever Comment: This book is useless for the exam and useless for learning SBS 2003.
Could have put the whole book in less than 25 pages.
I would give negative star if I could.
