R2 Availability in July

Although the docs and the eval version of OpsMgr R2 have been released the actual production code will not be available until 1st July according to the Microsoft Product Team bloggers such as Justin.
1st July! Really? Well yes, even though the eval RTM bits (build no 7221) was made available on 21st May. So that [...]

OpsMgr R2 Releases

Well it looks like the team have got the RTM code out before the 30 day target. Good news
So far on the downloads are
The OpsMgr 2007 R2 Evaluation (1.29 GB) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=93ddf25b-1ef0-4851-81b0-5fb9a2f76181 (Although it does not say how long the eval copy is for) Also the requirements [...]

Exchange 2007 MP Oddities

This post relates to OpsMgr 2007 SP1 with Exchange 2007 MP v6.0.6461.0.
Normally I ensure that there is an agent on each Exchange server before deploying the MP. This ensures that the underlying OS and IIS are OK before getting involved in the Exchange MP. But on this occasion the customer had one Exchange server that [...]

R2 T Minus 7

As they announced at the MMS that OpsMgr R2 should be released with 30 days (28th April) that means that it should be out in the next 7 days if they are going to keep to that day.

Disk Space Free Report Solved!

At a session by Daniel Savage and Vitaly Filimonov on the new features of reporting (Service Level Tracking with integration into SharePoint – different from Service Level Dashboard, new report model for Report Builder and more) in R2 Vitaly demonstrated building a report using SQL queries which he built up to get a table report [...]

Interop Connectors for System Center

With the purchase of Engyro Microsoft purchased the ability to link into other systems. The connectors work initially with OpsMgr R2 and will eventually also work with Service Manager. This uses WS-Man and Open Pegasus which is the same as R2’s ability to monitor Linux/UNIX servers.
The first set will be
 
They announced at the [...]