Its been a long road, but today marks the official published date for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed, ISBN 0672329557, at a whopping 1416 pages! The book is now being shipped to bookstores and online sellers such as Amazon.com.

From the back cover: "System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed is a comprehensive guide to System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007. Like its MOM 2005 predecessor, OpsMgr 2007 helps you implement operations management, but with a far different and more holistic approach from MOM 2005's focus on individual servers. This book guides you through designing, deploying, and configuring OpsMgr 2007. You will find detailed information and hands-on experience on topics such as estimating database sizes and designing redundant OpsMgr configurations. You learn how to tackle challenges such as setting up ACS, establishing client monitoring, using and creating synthetic transactions and distributed applications, and developing management packs and reports."

This book, written by the authors of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed, provides you with what you need to know about OpsMgr and what it can do for your operations. The accompanying CD is packed with utilities that will help you get the most out of OpsMgr

To my coauthors, Cameron Fuller and John Joyner, and to Andy Dominey, a great contributor - thanks for all the hard work you put into this!

For more information about the book, see Amazon.com, at http://tinyurl.com/27mqnm.