Although each exercise
offers step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish a specific task, there is always
more than one way to perform a task, so feel free to experiment and try to find other
ways to work. One thing you will appreciate with Windows Server 2008 is the flexibility
it offers you as an administrator to interact with various elements of the operating system.
Take advantage of this and don??™t assume that the way I wrote it is necessarily the
best way, since I sometimes had to choose steps that were easier to follow rather than
faster to do.
I also don??™t hold back on screenshots. These are not page fillers but serve a specific
purpose of showing what you can expect the screens to look like as you work through the
exercises. I can??™t tell you how many times I??™ve read a book and scratched my head while
reading some of the step-by-step guides because either the description wasn??™t clear or a
miscommunication was written about what I should be looking at versus what I actually
saw. By providing the screenshots, I hope to clear up a lot of the confusion associated
with many of those purely text-based exercises.
This book was initially written when Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (then called
Windows Server codename ???Longhorn???) was still in Beta 2. As you can very well
understand, Beta 2, which wasn??™t made available to the general public, was still quite
rough around the edges, and many features and graphical elements didn??™t function
the way one might expect.
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