If you're an IT professional, you're busy enough trying to manage multiple systems and stay proactive with the technology demands of today's fast-moving companies. System Center Operations Manager 2007 is designed to make your life easier, and this comprehensive book is your one-stop gateway to it all. With intermediate to advanced coverage, this book gives you the information you need to deploy, manage, and maintain SCOM 2007, and use it to monitor your network.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
Helpful because there are so few resources, March 21, 2008
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Grant Fritchey (MA)
This is not a great book. However, there are very few resources, especially third party resources, available to help you learn and administer System Center Operations Manager 2007. I'm just getting started with SCOM and I needed something to help. The documentation from MS is extremely basic and just doesn't give you enough information to make a serious impact on learning and administering your server. If you decide to look up other resources, then you'll find this book and one that isn't in print. Depending on how desperate you are, I was pretty desperate, you can pick this up. It will help. It just won't help very much. It actually gets things wrong every once in a while and parts of the book look copied and pasted from other parts and they should have done a bit more proofing and editing on these bits because they make incorrect references.
Still, it's the only game in town right now.
Not bad - not great, March 16, 2008
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jalmquistI must admit, I haven't read this book in its entirety. It was a little weak for me, and I think this was written fairly quickly to be the first out there. No other SCOM books to compare at the moment...but, if you've been working with SCOM for more than three months...you'd probably be just as well off reading blogs and waiting for "Unleashed". Probably better suited for a beginner.
DONT BUY THIS.CRAPY BOOK, March 5, 2008
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S. VadakelWhat a disappointment and waste of money. There is no order and the author is jumping from A to Z and Z to A. This book is totally waste. For example this book didn't even tell how to enable email alerts step by step. They forget to mention about subscriptions, key factor in email alerts. Is any other good books available. I put this book in garbage
Great Book, February 21, 2008
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Dave C (Illinois)
Purchased this book and was extremely impressed with its ability to help me learn this technology. I found a great companion site to this book that offers online training at a very reasonable price. Ultimately, this book is going to be my "bible" for working with Operations Manager. The online training that I used in conjunction to the book was LearnITStuff. Definetly well worth the purchase. Great book, thanks...
Not exactly for "Mastering" but excellent intro!, January 23, 2008
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Stephan EversThis book obviously is not going to get you to a state of "Mastering" OpsMgr 2007, but I still really liked it and would definitely recommend it. The book gives a great intro into OpsMgr, has wonderful steps for testing and familiarizing oneself with it at home or in a test enviroment before using in production. I think the primary reason that I am so lenient on this book for not being an indepth technical know-all is simply because its the first OpsMgr 2007 on the market, and because anyone using it knows that just about every issue or problem that you will encounter is "fixed with SP1". The book is very easy to read, and anyone can be very familiar with it in a short period of time. Another chapter integrating scripting/powershell would have been nice, but it still gets the job done.
