{"id":9118,"date":"2008-07-10T10:53:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9118"},"modified":"2008-07-10T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"configmgr-2007-r2-release-candidate-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9118","title":{"rendered":"ConfigMgr 2007 R2 Release Candidate Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc161883(TechNet.10).aspx\">System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Release 2<\/a> (SCCM R2) is <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/\">available for download<\/a> for the purposes of testing and evaluation.\u00a0 What does this <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc161883(TechNet.10).aspx\">offer<\/a> you?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for application virtualisation (SoftGrid) &#8211; I like the sound of SoftGrid and know some people who rave about it.\u00a0 Haven&#8217;t played with it yet because it&#8217;s got a limited (Software Assurance) market.\n<\/li>\n<li>ForeFront Client Security integration &#8211; I was just asked about this yesterday.\n<\/li>\n<li>Report on SCCM 2007 R2 using SQL Reporting Services &#8211; This will probably appeal to the larger customers who have SQL Reporting skills in house.\u00a0 Honestly, that&#8217;s not all that common a skill.\n<\/li>\n<li>Client health monitoring using a set of tools and reports &#8211; Yeah!\u00a0 This is necessary.\u00a0 The most common problem I have had with the SMS family is clients failing because of &quot;stale&quot; computer accounts.\n<\/li>\n<li>OS Deployment Improvements: Deploy to a computer without pre-configuring a computer account.\u00a0 Excellent!\u00a0 Who needed all that extra manual work.\u00a0 I might as well have just used ImageX.\u00a0 Now we have a solution I can live with.\u00a0 Multicast Deployment is added.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the last justifiable criticism the Ghost fans had.\u00a0 You can also now run command line tasks using alternate credentials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One final note.\u00a0 Some of the rather quick SCCM MVP&#8217;s have found that the R2 installation (20MB which installs on top of SCCM 2007 SP1) will <em>only<\/em> install on an evaluation edition of SCCM 2007 SP1.\u00a0 Doh!\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning on installing a Hyper-V lab at home this week so I can get playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Release 2 (SCCM R2) is available for download for the purposes of testing and evaluation.\u00a0 What does this offer you? Support for application virtualisation (SoftGrid) &#8211; I like the sound of SoftGrid and know some people who rave about it.\u00a0 Haven&#8217;t played with it yet because it&#8217;s got a limited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ConfigMgr 2007 R2 Release Candidate Available&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sccm-2007"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}