 Pro SMS 2003 |
Read about this book on Amazon.comWritten by our own
Rod Kruetzfeld for
Apress publishing.
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Apress (November 30, 2006)
Pro SMS 2003 is a handy reference for practical solutions and problem solving, and is ideal for experienced network administrators who want to learn about SMS. Author Rod Kruetzfeld's has been working for six years as a senior consultant, designing and implementing SMS. Everything in the book is based on his field experience, and he provides insight from the SMS community and offers numerous resources.
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Review
Own this book? Insert your own review by editing this Wiki page."I'd recommend this to a company/individual that hasn't implemented SMS at all yet; and need to know how to plan for and best implement it. I'd also recommend it to people who are "having problems" but aren't quite sure why. Hopefully they'd be able to retro-actively see what they should have done and fix it. This would take them through maybe their first few months of planning and configuration.
Although there have been several SMS 2003 related books released lately (and long overdue in my opinion), each one has something additional to offer to the SMS Admin. SMS 2003 is a complex thing to understand and administrate, and I found "Pro SMS 2003" to be another useful addition to the books available. The emphasis placed in the first few chapters on understanding your network topology *before* starting to deploy important. Hopefully if a company is considering SMS they take to heart the planning stages as the critical step they are for a successful SMS deployment. The book also takes one through step-by-step setting up the agents, inventorying options, and some of the addons (like patch management and Feature Packs). To quote Rod himself "This is the book I wish someone had written for me when I first started working with the product."
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Sherry Kissinger