Microsoft SMS Installer (Book/CD-ROM package) | 
|  | | | Title: | Microsoft SMS Installer (Book/CD-ROM package) | | Author: | Rod Trent | | Publisher: | McGraw-Hill Companies | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 24 February, 2000 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0072124474 / 9780072124477 | | List Price: | $39.99 | | Amazon Price: | $240.00 (via Amazon marketplace seller) | | | |
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A complete guide to remote installations using SMS installer.
Amazon.com Review
When you run a fleet of Windows workstations (particularly ones that are geographically distributed) and are responsible for maintaining the software on all of them, you need Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) to automate software installations and updates. Rod Trent's Microsoft SMS Installer takes a from-the-trenches view of software management under SMS, explaining precisely how to write SMS scripts for scores of diverse situations. Trent shows how to write scripts that operate efficiently under ideal conditions and deal gracefully with irregularities and problems. Though many readers will jump right to this book's companion CD-ROM and start digging through its prewritten SMS scripts, the book is primarily useful as a tutorial and reference for people who want to do their own scripting. Trent (an MCSE) shows how to create, edit, and deploy scripts with SMS tools. More importantly, he documents the SMS scripting language in a way that's both intelligible to newcomers and useful to old SMS hands with relatively obscure problems to solve. He explains scores of capabilities--such as configuring ODBC data sources--by documenting each parameter that script coders must set and explaining how each contributes to the big picture. Adequate (but not overwhelming) code listings, with annotation, describe full solutions to a variety of problems. --David Wall Topics covered: Microsoft System Management Server 2 and its application to networks of Windows NT, 95, and 98 computers. The Installation Expert and Script Editor tools are explained, as are the logical and syntax conventions of SMS scripts themselves.
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Customer Reviews:
• Woo-hoo! 16 June, 2002
This book is awesome! I've dabbled in SMS Installer for a while, but this book forced me to get serious about it. I love the way the book progresses through the product allowing you to go from beginner to pro. The flow of the book is very logical and the organization is right on target. And, the CD full of like 500 scripts has kept my nose to the computer screen for two days!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1XPUJNS09C021
• Just Got My Copy! 23 January, 2002
I can't believe this book is out of print already! This book stands the test of time. I just got my copy (from one of the used booksellers, sadly) and it rocks! For anyone who has not picked this book up yet, HURRY! Using this book, I have already completed two software packages I had given up on.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1V9V03ZW27DSB
• Excellent Resource For Those New To Sms Installer 27 April, 2001
This book is a great reference for those new to SMS installer, as well as more seasoned SMS Administrators. It has a very solid "tips" section with code samples...I attended SMS training (offered by a Microsoft-approved vendor) and found it somewhat lacking where SMS Installer was concerned -it focused more on day to day administration and monitoring and was too basic. This book was MUCH better. I refer to it often.If you are new to Administration, I would also suggest buying the other McGraw Hill book "Administering SMS" as a companion to this book. Using both, you will be up and running in no time.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AKI8C35PNDT5X
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