Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Field Guide is a quick reference for resolving problems that intermediate-to-advanced MOM administrators are likely to face. Authors Andy Dominey and Garry Meaburn have experience with both deploying and troubleshooting MOM in large-scale environments, and the problems and solutions they discuss are ones they have actually faced in their careers.

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Product Description

Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Field Guide is a quick reference for resolving problems that intermediate-to-advanced MOM administrators are likely to face. Authors Andy Dominey and Garry Meaburn have experience with both deploying and troubleshooting MOM in large-scale environments, and the problems and solutions they discuss are ones they have actually faced in their careers.

This book is ideal if youre already familiar with MOM, but are not yet an expert at administering it. All of the solutions and troubleshooting tips get right to the point. Furthermore, the chapters are stand-alone and can be read in any order you choose. This is a book for those who measure twice before they cutand for those who didnt but wish they had.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1048544 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

About the Author
Andy Dominey is a Microsoft MVP and currently works in the UK as a MOM/infrastructure consultant. He has been responsible for the IT systems of many large-scale customers including the British Army and a company supplying mobile phone services to major UK mobile operators. Andy currently contributes MOM solutions to myITforum.com and the Microsoft MOM community.

Andy has been in the IT industry for about seven years. He started out as a field service and support engineer, and then worked his way up to systems administrator responsible for MOM, AD, Exchange, web hosting, and SAN and clustering for an Exchange hosting provider based in the UK.

Garry Meaburn lives in the United Kingdom and works for a large multinational company. His current role is Active Directory engineer, and he is also responsible for MOM 2005 implementation to monitor AD and Exchange.

Garry is currently in the process of helping set up a new team to centrally manage AD and deploy an enterprise-wide MOM installation to monitor AD, SMS, and Exchange.

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Customer Reviews

Great Book!
Everything about MOM is covered in the book (at least it seems that way -- I'm not a MOM expert by far). Capacity planning, installation, management packs, alerts, and reports are all topics that are covered. It's packed with diagrams and screenshots -- and that's always a good thing for a GUI-centric application. The diagrams are especially helpful when describing the different MOM architectures. Speaking about architecture, a good amount of the book is devoted to MOM design, both in the beginning with initial installation planning, and towards the end with management groups.

The introduction section says that this book is geared toward people who are already using MOM. I think if you're new to MOM and need a quick course on how to use it, MOM 2005 Field Guide will do just fine.