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Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator's Companion (PRO-Administrators Companion)

By: Steven D. Kaczmarek with System Center Configuration Manager Team
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MICROSOFT PRESS
ISBN: 0735623856
ISBN-13: 9780735623859
Released: 01 Feb 2008
RRP: £37.99
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Limited - By: Richard Kelly, 10 Nov 2008
First off, I am a Microsoft Certified Trainer who for years specialised in SMS training & then I drifted in thin client networking. I more or less missed SMS 2003 & recently decided to make a come back into the SMS field.

Firstly the book is written from a smalll business perspective, everything about the way that the product is utilised/planned/explained in here is aimed at SME customers. If you are working with this product in a Large Enterprise deployment then the scenarios & examples will have extremely limited value. If you have a strong SMS background, particularly SMS 2003, then you will find that the coverage of the new features is very poorly done. One of the reasons I purchased this book as to get some material about managing software updates & mobile devices. The SW Updates section is reallly quite poor & mobile device management basicallly says "You can manage mobile devices that run Windows Mobile 2003, 4 & 5." Some of the language used is also not appropriate for a technical book "If this does not work then don't feel sad" The author used to be a technical courseware author for MS so I expected a higher standard of writing.

I could only reallly recommend this book if you have never previously worked with SMS or if you work in a smalll SCCM deployment, as the examples of how to deploy software, gather inventory & configure remote control are quite will done. If you are already experienced with the older versions of the product then installl it on a test bed & go through the MS TechNet site looking for the new features as they are not covered in enough detail here!