System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 RTM.
The System Center Operations Manager 2007 team is excited to announce that System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 has Released-to-Manufacturing (RTM), and is now available for download! This release of SP1 marks an important milestone for the System Center Operations Manager 2007, making the product easier to support, easier to use, and easier to deploy.The goals that this Service Pack addresses include:
- Address critical customer initiated issues, including a roll-up of all hot-fixes.
- Improve the ability to deploy and use Operations Manager 2007.
- Enhance the supportability of Operations Manager 2007.
With over 3000 downloads of the SP1 Release Candidate (RC) to date, and with over 15,000 SP1 RC agents deployed into production by TAP customers, it’s clear that customer’s are eager to get their hands on this powerful update to Operations Manager 2007—Microsoft’s industry-leading and award-winning end-to-end service monitoring solution for enterprise environments!Congratulations to the Operations Manager 2007 team on getting Service Pack 1 out the door!
What's Included in Service Pack 1?
Operations Manager 2007 SP1 addresses critical customer-initiated issues, including improved deployment, performance, reporting, and enhanced support. Highlighting some of the key new features and enhancements:
- New capability to export Operations Manager 2007 diagrams to Microsoft Visio VDX file format.
- New ability to publish reports to multiple locations, such as Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web sites.
- Improved performance and reliability across the product, such as when working with alerts, overrides, and searches.
- Enhanced “advanced search” by improved the ability to search across monitors and rules by their overrides.
- Simplifying the creation of new management packs by allowing users to copy views from existing management packs to an unsealed management pack.
- New ability view performance data through the Operations Manager Web console, and setup filters for desired performance counters to ease searching and navigation.
- New discoveries and views added to the Audit Collection Services (ACS), along with new monitors and alerts to track the health of ACS collectors.
- Enhanced backup and recovery with the introduction of an easier-to-use Secure Storage Backup Wizard.
- … and much, much more!!
A comprehensive list on what’s included with Service Pack 1 can be found by visiting the What’s New in Ops Mgr 2007 SP1 and What’s Fixed in Ops Mgr 2007 SP1 resources.
The Final Build
Operations Manager 2007 SP1 is available for both x86-based and x64-based computers. The Service Pack is available as a standalone executable that you can use to upgrade an existing Operations Manager 2007 installation, and it has also be ‘slipstreamed’ into the Operations Manager 2007 installation media to enable a single installation. Note that the Release Candidate is fully upgradable to this final RTM version of SP1!
Final build number: 6278
Public Availability
Operations Manager 2007 SP1 is currently being pushed out to the web, and the following links are being replicated over the weekend (replication is expected to be completed by Mon Feb 25th, or earlier).
Where can i go for further information?
A new dedicated SP1 page on TechNet will go live by Monday Feb 25th, which will provide links to newly available resources, including What’s New, What’s Fixed, SP1 Training Videos, updated documentation, and more! Any additional information will be posted to the Operations Manager 2007 page of System Center Web.