Mastering Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

I must admit, I haven't read this book in its entirety. It was a little weak for me, and I think this was written fairly quickly to be the first out there. No other SCOM books to compare at the moment...but, if you've been working with SCOM for more than three months...you'd probably be just as well off reading blogs and waiting for "Unleashed". Probably better suited for a beginner.

Purchased this book and was extremely impressed with its ability to help me learn this technology. I found a great companion site to this book that offers online training at a very reasonable price. Ultimately, this book is going to be my "bible" for working with Operations Manager. The online training that I used in conjunction to the book was LearnITStuff. Definetly well worth the purchase. Great book, thanks...

This book obviously is not going to get you to a state of "Mastering" OpsMgr 2007, but I still really liked it and would definitely recommend it. The book gives a great intro into OpsMgr, has wonderful steps for testing and familiarizing oneself with it at home or in a test enviroment before using in production. I think the primary reason that I am so lenient on this book for not being an indepth technical know-all is simply because its the first OpsMgr 2007 on the market, and because anyone using it knows that just about every issue or problem that you will encounter is "fixed with SP1". The book is very easy to read, and anyone can be very familiar with it in a short period of time. Another chapter integrating scripting/powershell would have been nice, but it still gets the job done.

Reading it was a breeze. It is good for beginners who want to get a good introduction to MOM in a very simplified manner. It does not include scripting and that's the only thing i found missing. Otherwise it is a great book.