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Microsoft Sms 1.2 Administrator's Survival Guide

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The editor of this book could not have possibly played a significant role in getting this book reviewed prior to publication. The editot should have cleaned up the grammar. There were simply too many short thought that could have / should have been grouped together for increased clarity.

There is a lot of good information in this book. It covers everything the SMS administrator is likely to encounter in the planning as well as the day-to-day operation of an SMS installation.

However, I found that comprehending that good information was a bit of a chore. To begin with, I found the typefonts used for the subsection headings were so much alike that it was hard to see the document structure. After that, I found it hard to follow the text because of the author's tendency to use SMS-specific terms before defining them. I found some occasions where the information presented was flat-out wrong. (E.g., page 314, Table 14.2, Maintenance Manager And The Polling Intervals; the intervals given from Very Fast to Slow are clearly reversed.) In parts, the text read as if it had been translated from Japanese to English and was very difficult to follow.

I did learn SMS from this book, but it was a struggle. Admittedly, SMS is a complex product. Instructing a reader in its setup and operation is bound to be equally complex. But it must be possible to define and present SMS and its underlying concepts in an orderly and coherent manner. That is why I buy a book such as this.

I have read a number of books from Sams Publishing, and I have always been impressed by the thoroughness and clarity with which they presented their subject matter. It was a disappointment to find this book falling short of the quality I have come to expect from Sams Publishing.

There is a serious lack of good books that teach SMS. This book gave me the foundation that I needed to be able to pass the SMS MCP exam. This book can help those who have no prior knowledge of SMS become proficient in it's day to day maintence. A very good starter book

SMS is powerful, complex and often misunderstood package. It has a multitude of features that require experience or the next best thing: a detailed technical book. This book provides this level of information. Further, the authors are all experienced in the field bringing tips, notes and cautions that help the administrator to avoid the mistakes others have made

Nothing but an overview. Covers very nicely the topics of what can be done. It is extremely lacking of details of anything that you may need to implement. (If you are a system Admin I would hope you would not need this weak reference.) For implementing the SMS product, especially in an enterprise setting, It is a horrible reference.

This book is good for setting up the software on the servers and on the clients,and gives an overview of how it functions along with the different services and how they interact, but to truely use sms u need to have some scripts, and this book sorely lacked any sms scripting training or setup, what scripting information was given was very vague...

I don't see why everyone liked this book so much. I though it was an OK overview but poor when it got down to specifics. Since SMS ships virtually without docs you need something more than an overview. Rating=3

This book, even though the level of use indicates Advanced to Expert, takes the installation and configuration from a level that most of us can understand and gives enough detail to finish the task with confidence. Points out pitfalls and gives VALID tips along the way which will ultimately give the reader an significant advantage over the one who just installs it and forgets it. With this book as a reference (after reading), you will be able to troubleshoot even the most complicated problems dealing with SMS