Binding: Paperback
Brand: MICROSOFT
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.71
EAN: 9780735618886
ISBN: 0735618887
Item Dimensions: Array
Label: Microsoft Press
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
MPN: 9780735618886
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 864
Platform: No Operating System
Publication Date: 2004-01-21
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Studio: Microsoft Press

Deliver mission-critical software and updates—and help maximize your organization’s productivity—with the essential administrator’s reference to planning, deploying, and maintaining Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great book as a reference
Comment: If you are new to SMS and you want to start working with this technology then this is not the right book. NOT because it is to complicated - more because it is way to detailed. But the book is great as a reference. I think it is even a must for a SMS admin. The topics are explained very clear and so far I found all the information I was looking for.

If you are new to SMS and you want to start working with it I recommend use the SMS 2003 CBT Nugget and work additional with this book to get deeper into specific topics.

But again - as a reference for you daily work this book is great.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Helpful material!
Comment: This book has helped me a lot with this horrible product from Microsoft. Needless to say, I've sold the book and I no longer bother with junky SMS. Still, a good book.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not for Beginners
Comment: This book is wriiten with the expectation that you have working experience with SMS.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent book for SMS Admins
Comment: I am new to SMS and I must say that I now love it because of its power. This book made it easier for me to understand the ins and outs of the product. It will help you out a lot to know your windows environment well enough as well as your AD, after a couple of service packs SMS gets into deep waters. I would like to see the future editions of the book include chapters regarding free add ons such as the OSD Pack and ITMU, it would make it even better at least for admins looking for implementing it into a windows shop.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Ok for basics but nothing ground breaking
Comment: As you probably realize there is not a large selection of books that cover SMS 2003. This book is probably an acceptable book for an SMS 2003 beginner or an admin who doesn't typically use all of SMS's functionality. The primary benefit this book provides is that it helps you to more clearly understand the poorly written documentation that Microsoft provides with SMS. It shows the reader in a logical well-ordered way how to setup SMS from the 1st SMS server through configuration of each of the major components of SMS as well as adding additional servers and sites into SMS. It also provides step by steps for each activity and simplified examples of how to use the major components and perform common SMS tasks. While step by steps are provided the authors could really haved used more and different types of examples in many cases.

The areas where this book could use significant improvement are in "real world" troubleshooting, design, and ongoing maintenance activities. It could also use more detailed information on configuring SQL for SMS usage as well important activities such as creating and setting container permissions in Adsiedit or ADUC. It also needs to be updated to include SP2 and the available feature packs that are out for SMS.

Over all this book is probably a tad overpriced for the information it provides since most, if not all, of the book information is in the SMS docs. I think this book should be no more than $40 but since there are so few other books I guess they can get away with the $60 price.

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