SCOM 2007 R2 Release Candidate (RC)

Operations Manager 2007 R2 introduces key new and enhanced functionality, including:

Enhanced application performance and availability across heterogeneous platforms

• Delivers monitoring across Windows, Linux and Unix servers-all through a single console
• Extends end to end monitoring of distributed applications to any workload running on Windows, Unix and Linux platforms
• Maximize availability of virtual workloads with integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

Improved management of applications in the data center

• Delivers on the scale requirements of URL monitoring of your business
• Meet agreed service levels with enhanced reporting showing application performance and availability
• More efficient problem identification and action to resolve issues

Microsoft announced today the availability of the Operations Manger 2007 R2 Release Candidate (RC)  on Connect (http://connect.microsoft.com).

There are a number of enhancements over the beta released in November, including:

• New Power Management MP template (the monitored system must be either Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7)
• Updated branding across all user interfaces, including a new skin
• Improved trace configuration tools to help support issues escalated to Customer Support (if applicable)
• Improved Run As Account Distribution Configuration
• Ability to run inline tasks for non-Microsoft servers
• Support for upgrade from…

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