Who Should Read This Book

When you transition into a new job or to new duties in your current job, you naturally first want to learn only what you must know to do whatever it is you have to do. How you find out what you must know is an experience who's pain lies somewhere between that of a root canal and sore muscles from a hard workout. The goal of this book is to give you what you must know to have a solid foundation for planning, implementing, and administering MOM 2005, which is a pretty good workout.

I wrote this book with the first-time MOM administrator in minde. To get the most from this book, it is helpful to have some background as a Windows system administrator in a multiple-server environment. If you are a complete novice to the Windows OS and are not even sure what event logs or performance counters are, then you are going to struggle a bit with this material until you get some basic Windows OS administration under your belt.