Product Description
Install and configure SMS for peak performance, and find full details on SMS architecture, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
From the Back Cover
Install, configure, and maintain Microsoft Systems Management Server on your organization’s network with help from Admin911: SMS.
This unique resource provides immediate solutions to problems and conflicts involving configuration management, hardware inventory, software distribution, Network Discovery, and reporting. You’ll also get troubleshooting tips for unattended installation, remote administration, and network monitoring. Use the preventive maintenance advice inside this book and save yourself hundreds of hours of problem-solving time.
- Learn techniques for getting the best performance out of SMS
- Manage primary and secondary site server installation
- Handle client configuration, discovery, and installation
- Implement the SMS hardware and software inventory process
- Manage software package creation, distribution, advertisement, and metering
- Administer and troubleshoot your system using remote tools
- Enable site-to-site communication within the SMS infrastructure
- Monitor, review, and pinpoint problems using the SMS Status system
- Access, retrieve, and present data stored in an SMS SQL database
Special series elements include:
- TAKE COMMAND: Specific command line utilities relating to the topic at hand
- CODE BLUE: Things to do when your system is in trouble
- BUG ALERT: Common and little-known problems and pitfalls
About the Author
Rod Trent is a network engineer at Deloitte & Touche with 5 years experience in training, implementation, and support of Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). He is the author of the best-selling Microsoft SMS Installer.
