MMS 2006 - breakout sessions

MOM v3 - sorry "System Center Operations Manager 2007"

Beta 2 is due in Q2 2006 (next month or two) and we'll ship in Q4 2006 (November/December).  We have a R2 release scheduled for 12 to 18 months after we ship (early 2008).

This session was nearly all demos.  Three big themes: Easy to Use, Knowledge Driven and Service Oriented.  Demos of each theme - the two I can recall were:

Easy to use demonstrated how we've integrated with Active Directory to find devices to manage and for devices to find Operations Manager.  Management Packs are self tuning for thresholds (i.e. we'll work out that your systems "normally" run at, say 30% - so this will be the threshold).  Reports will be better and easier to author.  Management Packs will be XML and will include versioning.  We'll have one console with role based security (i.e. you'll only get the functionality in your console that you need/have been given) that gives very granular control.  Console also has search to enable you to find what you're looking for.

Knowledge Driven demonstrated more, deeper knowledge in views, dashboards and inline tasks.  The ability to define your own personalised workspace.  We include the ability to monitor Vista & XP clients for utilisation, reliability and errors.  Audit Collection Services has finally found a home - it will be in this release of Operations Manager.  We include the ability for you to design your own diagram views of a distributed application - to model the relationships between all the components and to filter for specific components (i.e. I just want to see the components of my distributed, line of business application that are in error).

Operations Manager 2007 R2 will have deep integration with System Center 'Service Desk', will be able to manage Service Levels and Capacity.

More later.  Dave.