Showing posts with label R3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label R3. Show all posts

Monday, May 31, 2010

SCCM: Configuration Manager R3 Beta available (Microsoft Connect)

For those, who for some reason, mist out on last months SCCM news. Since a few weeks SCCM R3 Beta has been released.
It's available through the Open Beta program. If you are a member of the Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Open Beta program you can download it at: https://connect.microsoft.com/site16 | https://connect.microsoft.com/site16/content/content.aspx?ContentID=16938

(It's an evaluation version and can only be used on previous eval versions or fresh installs, not on live SCCM R2 systems)

Want to see what's new in R3, use the link!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

SCCM: SCCM R3 announced

Recently Microsoft announced a new release of System Center Configuration Manager. In this release, R3, the focus is on power management.
Nowadays more and more companies look for solutions to take on power usage of there IT infrastructure. In SCCM R3 there are going to be several functionalities that can help your business to lower power consumption.



Power Management


The goal of this capability is to enable Configuration Manager to further reduce the operational costs of IT by providing basic power management features native to the product. Our approach is based on 3 primary areas:

A. Help the organization plan a power strategy by monitoring current power state and consumption and reporting on machine utilization trends, current power settings and current energy consumption

B. Enable the Administrator to easily create, deploy and enforce specific power settings using the existing ConfigMgr infrastructure.
−Ability to set peak and non-peak schedules
−Ability to remediate settings if changed
−Ability to opt out machines from power policy

C. Provide the business meaningful report formats that are relevant to Power Management

Microsoft is still looking for TAP nominees. If you want to participate, fill in their survey before October 1st, 2009. SCCM R3 TAP Survey

For more information, see the Microsoft System Center website.