Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Administrator's Companion

His guide describes procedures for installing Microsoft systems management server (SMS) 2003 site systems and clients, implementing an SMS hierarchy, migrating from SMS 2.0, and maintaining a database from within the SMS administrator console. The author discusses status messages, resource discovery, inventory collection, remote control of client systems, the package distribution process, patch management, software metering, disaster recovery, and SQL server. The CD-ROM contains a 120-day evaluation version of SMS 2003. Annotation ♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).