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| Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Administrator's Companion: Administrator's Companion (Administrators Companion) | 
 enlarge | Author: Steven D. Kaczmarek
Brand: Microsoft
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 224709
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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 864
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 1.6
MPN: 9780735618886
ISBN: 0735618887
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.71
UPC: 790145188878
EAN: 9780735618886
ASIN: 0735618887
Publication Date: February 18, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 Ok for basics but nothing ground breaking March 8, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As you probably realize there is not a large selection of books that cover SMS 2003. This book is probably an acceptable book for an SMS 2003 beginner or an admin who doesn't typically use all of SMS's functionality. The primary benefit this book provides is that it helps you to more clearly understand the poorly written documentation that Microsoft provides with SMS. It shows the reader in a logical well-ordered way how to setup SMS from the 1st SMS server through configuration of each of the major components of SMS as well as adding additional servers and sites into SMS. It also provides step by steps for each activity and simplified examples of how to use the major components and perform common SMS tasks. While step by steps are provided the authors could really haved used more and different types of examples in many cases.
The areas where this book could use significant improvement are in "real world" troubleshooting, design, and ongoing maintenance activities. It could also use more detailed information on configuring SQL for SMS usage as well important activities such as creating and setting container permissions in Adsiedit or ADUC. It also needs to be updated to include SP2 and the available feature packs that are out for SMS.
Over all this book is probably a tad overpriced for the information it provides since most, if not all, of the book information is in the SMS docs. I think this book should be no more than $40 but since there are so few other books I guess they can get away with the $60 price.
 MS-SMS 2003 Admin Companion January 31, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book contains some good examples if you are upgrading from MS-SMS Version 2.0. Planning a new System Management Server within Active Directory can become quite complex, thus referring to the book made the task straight forward when creating a plan, implementation as well as upkeep. I would recommend this book if you need a guide through System Management Server.
Good general info September 13, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a good reference for general SMS admin tasks but not a good source for troubleshooting in-depth issues or uncommon configurations. Comes with an eval version of SMS 2003 - I would rather see them include some web reporting templates or queries, admin scripts, etc..
Well Worth the Buy May 26, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book goes into excellent detail about nearly every aspect of SMS 2003 and also tries to show the reader many of the pitfalls in deploying this huge program. The author is very thorough in explaining almost every aspect of deployment and management - there are lots of screen shots and excellent detail about the options.
This book fails in only two areas: 1). it is frequently aimed at deployment rather than administration (it is, after all, an ADMINISTRATOR'S Companion), and 2). it is too short. Regardless of those two factors, it is an excellent companion once your deployment is complete.
If you are just starting - or evaluating - SMS 2003 for your environment, read the whole book before you start. The author wrote with a well-organized structure, but (like many computer books) he focused on the "meat and potatoes" in chunks. This book is what I call 'thick reading' and can only be read in short and focused time chunks.
Regardless of that, no software program tome can be all-inclusive, but if you are looking for a fairly comprehensive SMS 2003 guide, money spent here is well worth it!
Clearly defines purposes and goals of the SMS 2003 December 11, 2004
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is quite a voluminous book, with lots of screenshots and textual information. It defines clearly the purposes and goals of the Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 software, explains fairly well why to use it and how to deploy it. If you didn't hear what SMS is and did never work with it before, this published work is of great value. However, when in comes to troubles with the use or the deployment of the software, this volume is of little worth. It does only explain the straight path when everything goes fine, but as soon as something went wrong, you are lost.
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