Customer Reviews

Microsoft Systems Management Server Training (Microsoft Training Guide)

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Very incoherent and does not prepare you for the MCSE test. The book keeps jumping around... The CD is a definite thumbs down also! Run as fast as you can to buy another book!!!!!!

The book made me think of a big box full of broken china. There is a lot in there, and if you are willing to work very hard you could make it usefull. SMS is a very complicated product and cheif among the goals of the writers should have been to make clear how the peices of the app. fit together. Look for another book.

700 + pages and for what. The book will start to detail a feature that it has not mention up to that point in the book. As for MCSE,this book is about 30% of the test. For the time that is need to read/skip around, you could be reading the online help file for MUCH better test prep "book". At least it reads like a "book". MS Press should laugh out of business, when they can't print a book on their own product. Run don't walk to buy any other book on SMS 1.2

This is a fairly comprehensive book at over 700 pages. There is a lot to take in if you are using it as study material for the MCSE exam. I felt the information could be better organised as it gives you information on a particular topic and then a few pages later on it gives even more detailed information on the same subject, why not keep it all together? A lot of the text is simply duplicated from Microsoft's TechNet CDs and some use of colour would have been useful. Overall though a good study guide to SMS 1.2

I was very pleased with the amount of information given in this book. The depth of the material covered was sufficient to succeed in the "REAL WORLD".

The Distributing Software section was very in depth and gave me the necessary information to actually use the software in the manner described.

The book thoroughly prepared me for Exam 70-018.

Compared to other SMS reference books, this book is worth every penny and I highly recommend it!

The book has 750 pages, not 500 as MSPress stated. Through it covers SMS 1.2 well, it is not a very good book for exam preparation. The real MCP exam ask you words between lines. The structure of the book is fairly good, and not difficult for novices too. Less typos and errors when compared with original ATEC kits and former MSPress kits.