The first and only comprehensive reference and technical guide to Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012, "System Center Operations Manager 2012 Unleashed" joins Sams' market-leading series of books on Microsoft's System Center product suite: books that have achieved go-to status amongst IT implementers and administrators worldwide. An expert author team of Operations Manager MVPs builds on their best-selling OpsMgr 2007 R2 book, thoroughly illuminating the new version's major improvements, and offering crucial insights for integrating with other Microsoft and third-party products, technologies, and infrastructure. Administrators, consultants, and other IT professionals will find all the information they need to use OpsMgr 2012 to manage all their cloud and datacenter applications and services, no matter how complex their environment may be. This book provides comprehensive coverage of: planning, installation, and migration; configuration; administration, security and compliance; dashboards, trending, and forecasting; backup/recovery; administering and authoring management packs; network, client, and .NET application monitoring; synthetic transactions, distributed applications, cross-platform interoperability; PowerShell automation, and much more.