Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed

About the Authors xxi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1 Part I Operations Management Overview and Concepts Chapter 1 Operations Management Basics 7 Chapter 2 What's New 41 Chapter 3 How Does It Work? 57 Part II Planning and Installation Chapter 4 Planning Your MOM Deployment 99 Chapter 5 Planning Complex Configurations 151 Chapter 6 Installing MOM 2005 173 Chapter 7 Upgrading to MOM 2005 211 Part III Deploying MOM Chapter 8 Post-Installation Tasks 237 Chapter 9 Installing and Configuring Agents 267 Chapter 10 Complex and High Performance Configurations 297 Chapter 11 Securing MOM 329 Part IV Administering MOM Chapter 12 Backup and Recovery 365 Chapter 13 Administering Management Packs 395 Chapter 14 Monitoring with MOM 423 Part V Managing with MOM Chapter 15 Managing the Operating System 487 Chapter 16 Managing Directory Services 527 Chapter 17 Managing Microsoft Messaging 565 Chapter 18 Database Management 595 Part VI Moving Beyond MOM 2005 Chapter 19 Interoperability 625 Chapter 20 Developing Management Packs 661 Chapter 21 Using and Developing Reports 719 Chapter 22 Using and Developing Scripts 777 Chapter 23 Touring Operations Manager 2007 825 Part VII Appendixes Appendix A MOM Internals 865 Appendix B Registry Settings 887 Appendix C Performance Counters 895 Appendix D Database Views 901 Appendix E Reference URLs 907 Appendix F On the CD 917 Index 919

Kerrie Meyler, MA, BA, MCSE, CNA, is an independent consultant and former trainer with more than 15 years' experience in IT. While at Microsoft in Field Technical Sales for four years she focused on infrastructure and management, presenting at numerous product launches. She also presented at internal Microsoft conferences and received company recognition and awards including a SPAR MGS award. An MCT for six years, Kerrie worked with Microsoft Learning to develop functional specifications for the 2550: Implementing Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 Microsoft Official Curriculum course and did the beta teach for that course. She also participated in the alpha walkthrough for the 2274: Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment course. As an author, she coauthored an IIS 6.0 Administration book. Cameron Fuller, BS, MCSE, is a Senior Lead consultant for Catapult Systems, an IT consulting company and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions. He focuses on management solutions, and serves as the Microsoft Operations Management Champion for Catapult. Cameron's 15 years of infrastructure experience include working with medium to large companies in the retail, education, healthcare, distribution, transportation, and energy industries. Cameron continually focuses on improving his existing business and technical skill sets through hands-on experience and leveraging certifications including an MCSE since NT 3.51, MCSA, A+, Linux+, Server+, and CCSA. Cameron is also a public speaker, co-presenting with Microsoft on MOM 2005 at TechEd and the MOM 2005 product launches in Dallas and Tulsa. Contributors: Chris Amaris is chief technology officer and cofounder of Convergent Computing. He has more than 20 years of consulting experience and specializes in security, performance tuning, systems management, migration, and messaging. A prolific book-publishing veteran, Chris has written on Network Security, Windows 2000 Performance Tuning, Windows