To ensure successful implementation of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) in your environment, you will need to do a thorough assessment of your environment to ensure that you plan your design and implementation correctly. The chapter discusses the key areas that you need to be collecting data about. The chapter explains the ways in which you can collect this information. Various questions that you can ask to help you get this information from various parts of the organization are also discussed in the chapter. Evaluating your environment can be one of the more time-consuming exercises in the implementation of MOM in your organization; however, it is also one of the most critical ones. Getting the right information by asking the right questions and collecting accurate data can really be the key to the success of your project.