Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with System Center Operations Manager [Paperback]

Michael B. Smith (Author)

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System Center Operations Manager 2007 is the new version of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and offers valuable new advantages for improving the manageability of Microsoft servers and applications. With this book, you’ll get high-level instruction for using Microsoft’s powerful server administration tool to manage Exchange Server 2007. Focused on monitoring and managing Exchange Server using Microsoft’s powerful new server admin tool, this book delivers exactly the information you need to deploy, manage, and maintain Systems Center Operations Manager 2007.

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Take Control of Exchange Server 2007 with Microsoft's Powerful OpsMgr 2007

Monitor the health and well-being of your company's Exchange Server 2007 SP1 system from top to bottom with System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 (SCOM) and the detailed instructions in this high-level guide. This solid reference provides the step-by-step instruction you need to deploy, manage, and maintain SCOM 2007 SP1.

You'll explore how to use SCOM's Management Packs to monitor specific enterprise applications and services and how to automate the collection of event logs from servers and workstations. The book refreshes your current knowledge of Exchange Server day-to-day operations and provides a systematic look at performance monitors, cross-platform reporting, exchange events, synthetic transactions, how to analyze mail flow, and other topics essential for thorough monitoring and management of Exchange Server.

• Install, configure, deploy, manage, and maintain SCOM 2007 SP1

• Automate almost every aspect of monitoring with SCOM utilities

• Review the nuts and bolts of Exchange Server 2007 SP1 day-to-day operations

• Master all the SCOM Management Packs: Active Directory®, SQL Server®, and the Storage, Processor, and Memory subsystems

• Understand Exchange events and real-time communication

• Access information such as processor and disk usage, network and MAPI performance, and other key metrics

• Track and analyze mail flow

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Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; Pap/Psc edition (March 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470148950
• ISBN-13: 978-0470148952
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #113,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for learning to manage your Exchange environment, April 20, 2009

By	Carl Webster - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with System Center Operations Manager (Paperback)

This book is different than most. The author takes the time to not only explain what to do but also WHY and HOW. You can read the chapters on Exchange 2003 (Chapter 10) and Exchange 2007 (Chapter 11) and get your money's worth from this book.

The author doesn't waste your time covering the detailed history of Exchange 2003/2007 or System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). Necessary background information is provided to provide a basic understanding of Exchange, SCOM and system monitoring.

The author takes a very careful and thorough approach to getting you ready to monitor your Exchange environment with SCOM. First he takes you through installing, configuring and deploying SCOM. Second, he takes you through installing all the necessary SCOM management packs. Finally, you learn what to monitor, why you should monitor and how to monitor.

One advantage you will get from this book is not only will you learn but you will understand your Exchange and SCOM environment.

The book is not without issues but the issues generally are relatively small. One example is the explanation of RAID in the inset on page 41. It is stated that the storage space "in a RAID-5 array is (N-1), where N is the number of gigabytes of space on the smallest disk in the array". By that explanation, a RAID-5 set of 3 300GB drives would only be 299GB and not 600GB.

However, the author correctly states on page 40 that RAID-5 "has a one disk cost" and goes into extreme detail beginning on page 350 how to specifically calculate the performance of your disk subsystem.

One must presume that this is simply an error which got past technical editing.

Minor errors aside, this book is an excellent resource for learning and understanding how to monitor your Exchange environment with SCOM 2007.