Writing a book is an all-encompassing and time-consuming project, and this book meets that description in every way. System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed would not be what it is without the support and assistance of numerous individuals.

We would like to extend our deep thanks and appreciation to those who assisted with this project. This includes (in alphabetical order by last name) Dan Anderson, Mike Baiano, Neale Brown, Ed Carnes, Walter Chomak, Bernie Chouinard, Drew Davis, Maarten Goet and the Techlog forum, Tony Greco, Tarek Ismail, Trevor Langston, Stan Liebowitz, Brendon McCaulley, Jack Meltzer, Robert Mouton, Kendra Thorpe, and Pete Zerger and his System Center forum.

Thank you as well to Erik McCarty, Judith Adams, and Chris Zeppa of Parker College for contributing scripts to disable and delete Active Directory user and computer objects and send email notifications to administrators. A huge thanks also to all the MOM MVPs for their continued contributions to the Operations Manager community—and we can’t forget Justin Incarnato of Microsoft, for all he does to make the MOM MVP community work!

We would also like to thank Cameron’s and John’s employers, Catapult Systems and ClearPointe, respectively, for their support while we were writing this book. Additional thanks are due to our reviewers: Kevin Saye and Brett Bennett; the Microsoft MOM Team, including (alphabetically) Joseph Chan, Justin Incarnato, Ian Jirka, Dale Koetke, Lorenzo Rizzi, Thomas Theiner, and Boris Yanushpolsky; and to the Sams publishing team, including Neil Rowe, Curt Johnson, Lori Lyons, and Jake McFarland. A special thanks to Andy Dominey for helping as a contributing author, and Pete Zerger for providing valuable troubleshooting assistance.

To all of you—this book would not be what it is without your help!