anyweb Posted October 14, 2010 Report post Posted October 14, 2010 The System Center team is very excited to announce the release of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3. This release is a significant accomplishment for the engineering team for a lot of reasons. Not only does ConfigMgr R3 drive new scenario support to existing world class capabilities, it raises core functionality to new levels of industry leading status. ConfigMgr is already known as a product capable of managing the world’s largest enterprise infrastructures, across the biggest, most distributed and most complex of customers. With ConfigMgr R3, we increase this to 300,000 managed clients per hierarchy, a number unmatched in the market today. In achieving this unparalleled position, the team managed to revisit a number of areas of the core product, and drive use case scenarios towards the concept of real time management. By tightening our key relationship to Active Directory with finer, more granular polling and delta monitoring, and marrying this with a new ability to rapidly populate those changes into collections; organizations will find a more responsive platform that meets their business needs, not just those of IT. Real world scenarios have impacted these changes, and we are excited to demonstrate our response to these challenges. In addition to all of these performance improvements, we have listened to our customers, and understand that with technology demands, you also need to save money, and lower the cost of IT in running a business. When combined with competitive, environmental and regulatory pressure, it is really exciting to deliver centralized, policy based Power Management “in box”. This feature alone will drive down the cost of running systems, from the same admin console ConfigMgr Admins have used for over a decade. Using the same client, the same policy system, and the same processes our other features take advantage of, Power Management is going to drive down the cost of IT like no other feature. Organizations are already sharing unsolicited data about their savings. A 20,000 seat organization recently reported that through early conservative power management policies, they will save approx. $500,000 per year. These kinds of capabilities make a real difference. ConfigMgr R3 sets a new bar in the evolution towards user centric client management. Elements now available within R3 are early looks at what you can expect moving forward with ConfigMgr v.Next. The core capabilities in System Center Configuration Manager R3 are extended by offerings from a number of partners. 1E NightWatchman software extends administrative flexibility, user empowerment and reporting to provide a best of breed power management solution for PCs. The below links provide some additional information about 1E as well as partners Verdiem and Adaptiva. In particular, about how these partner solutions extend our core functionality. Some resources for you: * Download the evaluation here (live ~2PM PST, Oct 14, 2010) * Guest Blog: Configuration Manager 2007 R3 - Power management mission and design philosophy - link * Extending System Center with 1E - link * Extending System Center with Verdiem - link * Extending System Center with Adaptiva – link * MVP Guest Blog: How to save money with ConfigMgr 2007 R3 and feel good about it - link * Implementing Power Management with Configuration Manager 2007 R3 - link * Configuration Manager 2007 R3: Power Management - Traditional Barriers to Power Management - link * Configuration Manager 2007 R3: Power Management . What is it and why is it important? - link * Power Management with Windows 7 – link The following features are new to Configuration Manager 2007 R3. * Power Management: Provides a set of tools that enable the site administrator to configure standard Windows power settings across computers and monitor power consumption and computer activity. * Operating System Deployment Improvements: Provides pre-staging of boot images and Windows Imaging Format (.wim) files on new computers that enables the administrator to apply a task sequence to the device that can use the pre-staged media. * Dynamic Collection Evaluation: Enables you to rapidly evaluate a collection membership by adding only newly discovered resources. * Active Directory Delta Discovery: Performs an intermediate discovery cycle that adds only new resources to the Configuration Manager 2007 database. * Simplified Resource Management: Enables you to search for and add resources to a specified collection. * Desired Configuration Management: Enables you to create a collection of compliant or noncompliant computers in desired configuration management. * Higher Number of Supported Clients Per Hierarchy: Configuration Manager 2007 R3 supports up to 300,000 clients per hierarchy when it uses the default settings for all Configuration Manager 2007 features. This increase in supported clients is the result of improvements to the Active Directory synchronization and Collection Evaluation processes http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2010/10/14/configuration-manager-2007-r3-is-here.aspx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey C Posted October 19, 2010 Report post Posted October 19, 2010 Where do you download it from? There are no download links for the proper version, only to the R3 eval, which clearly states "Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Evaluation will only install on the System Center Configuration Manager SP2 Evaluation product" Thanks in advance! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey C Posted October 19, 2010 Report post Posted October 19, 2010 Found it. It was on the MS Volumen Licensing site: SW_DVD5_Sys_Ctr_Config_Mgr_Svr_2007_R3_English_MLF_X16-29339.ISO CRC32: 98abd360 MD5: 3e4deb1ff1e09778b0928a890c4820ff SHA-1: 6038c2f4566af8c0a571d3034ac15a8ec8915a35 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YiannosG Posted October 19, 2010 Report post Posted October 19, 2010 How odd; Not in MSDN as well. Bammer! :angry: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted October 22, 2010 Report post Posted October 22, 2010 it's only available to Software Assurance customers (SA) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted November 4, 2010 Report post Posted November 4, 2010 it's available on MSDN now File Name: en_system_center_configuration_manager_2007_r3_x86_dvd_587807.iso Date Published (UTC): 11/1/2010 1:30:02 PM Last Updated (UTC): 11/2/2010 1:59:28 PM SHA1: 6038C2F4566AF8C0A571D3034AC15A8EC8915A35 ISO/CRC: 98ABD360 Available to Levels: VS Pro with MSDN Premium (Empower); Developer AA; MSDN Universal (Retail); VSTS Team Suite (VL); VSTS Architecture (VL); VS Premium with MSDN (MPN); VSTS Test (VL); VS Pro with MSDN Premium (MPN); MSDN Universal (VL); VSTS Database (VL); VS Pro with MSDN Premium (Retail); VSTS Test (Retail); VSTS Development (Retail); VSTS Architecture (Retail); VSTS Team Suite (Retail); VSTS Database (Retail); BizSpark Admin; BizSpark; VS Ultimate with MSDN (VL); VS Premium with MSDN (VL); VS Premium with MSDN (Retail); VS Ultimate with MSDN (Retail); VS Ultimate with MSDN (MPN); Instructions and Resources This product requires that System Center Configuration Manager 2007 with Service Pack 2 be installed first. This installation requires hotfix KB977384. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YiannosG Posted November 5, 2010 Report post Posted November 5, 2010 thx for the info applied in the morning at work Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
