{"id":9281,"date":"2008-11-21T15:55:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281"},"modified":"2008-11-21T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"operations-manager-2007-r2-beta-now-available-to-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281","title":{"rendered":"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first public beta release of OpsMgr 2007 R2 is <a title=\"available \" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/systemcenter\/archive\/2008\/11\/20\/operations-manager-2007-r2-beta-now-available.aspx\">available <\/a>for testing now.\u00a0 Features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manage UNIX and Linux seamlessly.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen this in action.\u00a0 It is not a bolt on.\u00a0 Operationally, it looks very nice.\u00a0 They decided to do it only in R2 because it needed some changes in how to use the role user accounts.\n<\/li>\n<li>More VMM integration\n<\/li>\n<li>Improved web application monitoring\n<\/li>\n<li>The SLA stuff appears to be integrated rather than being a bolt on as it currently is\n<\/li>\n<li>A faster console\n<\/li>\n<li>Better management pack &#8230; management (stuck for a better word there!)\n<\/li>\n<li>Simplified notification\u00a0 &#8211; it was needed because it&#8217;s a maze to figure out for the first time\n<\/li>\n<li>Improved and simplified authoring &#8211; I really hope so because discovery is a nightmare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first public beta release of OpsMgr 2007 R2 is available for testing now.\u00a0 Features include: Manage UNIX and Linux seamlessly.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen this in action.\u00a0 It is not a bolt on.\u00a0 Operationally, it looks very nice.\u00a0 They decided to do it only in R2 because it needed some changes in how to use the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test&#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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scom-2007"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.5 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The first public beta release of OpsMgr 2007 R2 is available for testing now. Features include: Manage UNIX and Linux seamlessly. I&#039;ve seen this in action. It is not a bolt on. Operationally, it looks very nice. They decided to do it only in R2 because it needed some changes in how to use the\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"AFinn\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"google-site-verification\" content=\"TDKjbi2McB2eLIfL6KwPB3aQqv5E-mbcb2QYIcovGaI\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.5\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aidan Finn, IT Pro - A blog covering Azure, Hyper-V, Windows Server, desktop, systems management, deployment, and so on ...\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test | Aidan Finn, IT Pro\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The first public beta release of OpsMgr 2007 R2 is available for testing now. Features include: Manage UNIX and Linux seamlessly. I&#039;ve seen this in action. It is not a bolt on. Operationally, it looks very nice. They decided to do it only in R2 because it needed some changes in how to use the\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"1999-11-29T20:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"1999-11-29T20:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@joe_elway\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test | Aidan Finn, IT Pro\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The first public beta release of OpsMgr 2007 R2 is available for testing now. Features include: Manage UNIX and Linux seamlessly. I&#039;ve seen this in action. It is not a bolt on. Operationally, it looks very nice. They decided to do it only in R2 because it needed some changes in how to use the\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@joe_elway\" \/>\n\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"aioseo-schema\">\n\t\t\t{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?p=9281#article\",\"name\":\"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test | Aidan Finn, IT Pro\",\"headline\":\"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?author=1#author\"},\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/#person\"},\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?p=9281#articleImage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/65fde4aa9f2ab1cf1514ae320a37ec682d9398ce5791d3c2dd1e8670a71ceea0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"width\":96,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"AFinn\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-11-21T15:55:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-11-21T15:55:00+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?p=9281#webpage\"},\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?p=9281#webpage\"},\"articleSection\":\"SCOM 2007\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?p=9281#breadcrumblist\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/#listItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?cat=35#listItem\",\"name\":\"SCOM 2007\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?cat=35#listItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"SCOM 2007\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?cat=35\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?p=9281#listItem\",\"name\":\"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test\"},\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/#listItem\",\"name\":\"Home\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?p=9281#listItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test\",\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?cat=35#listItem\",\"name\":\"SCOM 2007\"}}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/#person\",\"name\":\"AFinn\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?p=9281#personImage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/65fde4aa9f2ab1cf1514ae320a37ec682d9398ce5791d3c2dd1e8670a71ceea0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"width\":96,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"AFinn\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?author=1#author\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?author=1\",\"name\":\"AFinn\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?p=9281#authorImage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/65fde4aa9f2ab1cf1514ae320a37ec682d9398ce5791d3c2dd1e8670a71ceea0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"width\":96,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"AFinn\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?p=9281#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?p=9281\",\"name\":\"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test | Aidan Finn, IT Pro\",\"description\":\"The first public beta release of OpsMgr 2007 R2 is available for testing now. Features include: Manage UNIX and Linux seamlessly. I've seen this in action. It is not a bolt on. Operationally, it looks very nice. They decided to do it only in R2 because it needed some changes in how to use the\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/#website\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?p=9281#breadcrumblist\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?author=1#author\"},\"creator\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/?author=1#author\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-11-21T15:55:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-11-21T15:55:00+00:00\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Aidan Finn, IT Pro\",\"description\":\"A blog covering Azure, Hyper-V, Windows Server, desktop, systems management, deployment, and so on ...\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aidanfinn.com\\\/#person\"}}]}\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO -->\n\n","aioseo_head_json":{"title":"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test | Aidan Finn, IT Pro","description":"The first public beta release of OpsMgr 2007 R2 is available for testing now. Features include: Manage UNIX and Linux seamlessly. I've seen this in action. It is not a bolt on. Operationally, it looks very nice. They decided to do it only in R2 because it needed some changes in how to use the","canonical_url":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281","robots":"max-image-preview:large","keywords":"","webmasterTools":{"google-site-verification":"TDKjbi2McB2eLIfL6KwPB3aQqv5E-mbcb2QYIcovGaI","miscellaneous":""},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281#article","name":"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test | Aidan Finn, IT Pro","headline":"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?author=1#author"},"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/#person"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281#articleImage","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/65fde4aa9f2ab1cf1514ae320a37ec682d9398ce5791d3c2dd1e8670a71ceea0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","width":96,"height":96,"caption":"AFinn"},"datePublished":"2008-11-21T15:55:00+00:00","dateModified":"2008-11-21T15:55:00+00:00","inLanguage":"en-GB","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281#webpage"},"isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281#webpage"},"articleSection":"SCOM 2007"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281#breadcrumblist","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/#listItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?cat=35#listItem","name":"SCOM 2007"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?cat=35#listItem","position":2,"name":"SCOM 2007","item":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?cat=35","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281#listItem","name":"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test"},"previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/#listItem","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281#listItem","position":3,"name":"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test","previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?cat=35#listItem","name":"SCOM 2007"}}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/#person","name":"AFinn","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281#personImage","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/65fde4aa9f2ab1cf1514ae320a37ec682d9398ce5791d3c2dd1e8670a71ceea0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","width":96,"height":96,"caption":"AFinn"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?author=1#author","url":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?author=1","name":"AFinn","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281#authorImage","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/65fde4aa9f2ab1cf1514ae320a37ec682d9398ce5791d3c2dd1e8670a71ceea0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","width":96,"height":96,"caption":"AFinn"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281#webpage","url":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281","name":"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test | Aidan Finn, IT Pro","description":"The first public beta release of OpsMgr 2007 R2 is available for testing now. Features include: Manage UNIX and Linux seamlessly. I've seen this in action. It is not a bolt on. Operationally, it looks very nice. They decided to do it only in R2 because it needed some changes in how to use the","inLanguage":"en-GB","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/#website"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281#breadcrumblist"},"author":{"@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?author=1#author"},"creator":{"@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?author=1#author"},"datePublished":"2008-11-21T15:55:00+00:00","dateModified":"2008-11-21T15:55:00+00:00"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/","name":"Aidan Finn, IT Pro","description":"A blog covering Azure, Hyper-V, Windows Server, desktop, systems management, deployment, and so on ...","inLanguage":"en-GB","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/#person"}}]},"og:locale":"en_GB","og:site_name":"Aidan Finn, IT Pro - A blog covering Azure, Hyper-V, Windows Server, desktop, systems management, deployment, and so on ...","og:type":"article","og:title":"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test | Aidan Finn, IT Pro","og:description":"The first public beta release of OpsMgr 2007 R2 is available for testing now. Features include: Manage UNIX and Linux seamlessly. I've seen this in action. It is not a bolt on. Operationally, it looks very nice. They decided to do it only in R2 because it needed some changes in how to use the","og:url":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281","article:published_time":"1999-11-29T20:00:00+00:00","article:modified_time":"1999-11-29T20:00:00+00:00","twitter:card":"summary","twitter:site":"@joe_elway","twitter:title":"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test | Aidan Finn, IT Pro","twitter:description":"The first public beta release of OpsMgr 2007 R2 is available for testing now. Features include: Manage UNIX and Linux seamlessly. I've seen this in action. It is not a bolt on. Operationally, it looks very nice. They decided to do it only in R2 because it needed some changes in how to use the","twitter:creator":"@joe_elway"},"aioseo_meta_data":{"post_id":"9281","title":null,"description":null,"keywords":null,"keyphrases":null,"primary_term":null,"canonical_url":null,"og_title":null,"og_description":null,"og_object_type":"default","og_image_type":"default","og_image_url":null,"og_image_width":null,"og_image_height":null,"og_image_custom_url":null,"og_image_custom_fields":null,"og_video":null,"og_custom_url":null,"og_article_section":null,"og_article_tags":null,"twitter_use_og":false,"twitter_card":"default","twitter_image_type":"default","twitter_image_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_fields":null,"twitter_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"schema":{"blockGraphs":[],"customGraphs":[],"default":{"data":{"Article":[],"Course":[],"Dataset":[],"FAQPage":[],"Movie":[],"Person":[],"Product":[],"ProductReview":[],"Car":[],"Recipe":[],"Service":[],"SoftwareApplication":[],"WebPage":[]},"graphName":"","isEnabled":true},"graphs":[],"defaultGraph":"","defaultPostTypeGraph":""},"schema_type":null,"schema_type_options":null,"pillar_content":false,"robots_default":true,"robots_noindex":false,"robots_noarchive":false,"robots_nosnippet":false,"robots_nofollow":false,"robots_noimageindex":false,"robots_noodp":false,"robots_notranslate":false,"robots_max_snippet":null,"robots_max_videopreview":null,"robots_max_imagepreview":"large","priority":null,"frequency":null,"local_seo":null,"breadcrumb_settings":null,"limit_modified_date":false,"ai":null,"created":"2020-12-21 03:53:14","updated":"2025-06-04 12:19:01","seo_analyzer_scan_date":null,"focus_keyword":null,"additional_keywords":null,"truseo_locale":null},"aioseo_breadcrumb":"<div class=\"aioseo-breadcrumbs\"><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/\" title=\"Home\">Home<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">\u00bb<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?cat=35\" title=\"SCOM 2007\">SCOM 2007<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">\u00bb<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\tOperations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test\n\t\t<\/span><\/div>","aioseo_breadcrumb_json":[{"label":"Home","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/"},{"label":"SCOM 2007","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?cat=35"},{"label":"Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available To Test","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9281"}],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281","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=9281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}