Mastering System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Mastering)

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.

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Not helpful in any practical way
While the book will allow you to build and manage a SCOM environment, you won't be able to extend the knowledge to any practical deployments. There is only one mention of the Gateway Server role, which is essential in any multi-domain deployment. I purchased the book in September 2007, and while it was the first book on the subject, the SCOM help files and online communities were much more helpful.

To borrow a conceit from the authors:

The Bottom Line
Skip this one and buy System Center Operations Manager 2007 UNLEASHED by Meyler, Fuller, and Joyner.

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Waste of money
I bought this book thinking it would supplement the lack of Microsoft documented information. I was wrong,,. $55 dollars and time + gas to find it at a book store 40 miles from my house.

The book has a long section about clustering, and nothing about creating notification subscriptions or custom discoveries. Basically, the tasks/procedures that would matter to an Ops Manager administrator are not covered in this book. My 55 page Operations guide I put together for internal company usage has way more practical information than this book.

In speaking with the guys are Microsoft that support SCOM 2007, the unleashed book is the way to go. Too bad I had to call them to find this out.


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Helpful because there are so few resources
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.

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Not bad - not great
I 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.

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DONT BUY THIS.CRAPY BOOK
What 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