Customer Reviews

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed

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Anyone that uses System Center Operations Manager knows that the documentation is a bit sparse. This book more than makes up for that lack of information. The authors have created a very thorough and complete set of information starting with outlining the reason for SCOM and the underlying architecture. They spend a great deal of time and effort describing how to install and configure the tool. My favorite sections start about half way through when they get into configuring all the rules and monitors to gather data and respond to alerts. The chapter on reporting was also very helpful. They even include a small section on other management packs in the Appendixes, with information on the one that interests me most, SQL Server. The Appendix also has a great walkthrough on step by step configuring and tuning your own management pack.
I can't say this is a must own for anyone using SCOM, but if you've been floundering a bit, as I have, or you're just getting started, this is a fantastic resource to get you on your feet and get your SCOM system up and running.

As few people have already mentioned in their reviews, this book's got too much irrelevant information that can be removed cutting it in almost half the size. Most of the time when I was reading/reviewing this book it felt like its all cut & past from TechNet articles/blogs. I've learned more about SCOM of off blogs, and few Microsoft site then this book.

I purchase and I read lots of technical books and this book is one I absolutely wish I didn't purchase or attempt to read, it is horrible. I would say it may make a good reference book but I'm not even sure of that. What shocks me the most is that 10 people rated with 5 stars (at the time I purchased it). I'll update the post when I find a better SCOM 07 book.

I did not really find this book useful. Microsoft Learn site had several videos that I learned from. I was hoping to learn more about writing management packs from this book.

This is a good book for those with some MOM experience or no experience with the solution as well.

It is a good book, well written and contains very good references on the basic and advanced capabilities of the solution.

The only downside is (as it can be expected) that it has no information on the latest updates on SCOM, including R2 that has many new capabililities including cross platform monitoring capabilities and others.

Still a good book...

I've been working towards learning SCOM and had come to a standstill until I bought this book. The infrastructure development and installation section was of considerable help towards moving me forward. From there I've been able to pick up the software at an accelerated rate. The one thing I would have liked to have seen is an electronic version of the book. As a mobile IT professional taking the book along puts a good amount of weight in my pack.

This book has been a big disapointment. It has a very large amount of writing that says very little, and I concur with an earlier reviewer who stated that the book could be significantly shorter.

For example, of the 15 pages on using XML with SCOM, 10 are spent on explaining XML tags, and how to open an xml file in notepad or ie. Most of the remainder are filled with an xml file dump with a brief section providing a paragraph explaining each of the major sections.

That's it. No review of how to import the xml; nothing on how to alter an existing xml file; no discussion of the schema.

Other sections of the text are at a similarly low level of technical detail.

This book is REALLY big. And for the beginner to intermediate Operations Manager administrator, that is a good thing. Clearly this is the book by which all other Operations Manager 2007 books should be measured. I'd say this one compares quite favorably to the other option on the market

Unleashed is infrastructure focused, and delivers great process-related info for not only design, planning and implementation, but more common administrative scenarios than one can count - moving databases, changing accounts, tuning your environment - it's all in there. And while I wouldn't expect many to read this book cover to cover, I think you could reference it regularly in your daily life as an Opsgmr admin for a long time and never look at the same page twice.

From a planning perspective, I think the team did a good job overall providing providing some insight into the decision process when mapping out your Opsmgr infrastructure plan. The ACS chapter in particular had excellent guidance for getting ACS running, and then tweaking the ACS reports to your liking.

As a testament to the size of Operations Manager as a product, the authors make copius references to community sources for scripts and information (kudos to the team for recognizing the community effort). But you'll also find quite a bit of that community data on the very handy CD accompanying the book.

And already in the book, I can see many SP1 changes that didn't make this 1st version due to lead time in editing cycles at the publisher, which is totally necessary. To that end, a 2nd edition is probably in the works, which will likely include many new tricks from recent months and some yet to be discovered.

I think there is something for everybody in Operations Manager Unleashed, and I encourage all Operations Manager administrators to keep one on the shelf for a rainy day.

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The book is 1300 pages and I have not read it from cover to cover BUT it is more of a reference book for me. The book came with a lot of anticipation in the field and I feel that the book has met with the expectations. It has examples and details that I would expect of a reference book. If you don't know anything about SCOM 2007, it covers concepts and has a CD with other items such as capacity planning. Screen shots, installation shots, tables, external references, powershell exampls, and blog links. It covers a LOT of material

I'm very satisfied with this book. It provides a lot information, ITIL process, idea and nicely Tips from real world.
I was the first time a bough an unleased book and it's not the last time. This book explains how SCOM is working and not just how used it, this is useful for troubleshooting!!
If you know a little SCOM and you want to be an administrator of this product, reading it help.
Of course if you understand the most of this book, the certification is easy.
Just one bad thing for me, the English is not my native language and it was sometimes hard to understand correctly some chapters ....