System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Eval
SMS V4, aka SCCM2007, was released without much fanfare on Friday 24th August.
You can eval the product here.
I'm not too impressed with the release of SCCM2007. I'm a member of several distlists, even on the SCCM Beta, and yet I didn't get a single email announcing the release of the product. It just seemed to appear on the scene and was propped up on the MS SMS Site on Friday without much noise being made. In fact the MS SMS site barely has anything on there about the release. Even the highlights section waffles on about the "mistake" product SMS2003 R2 (which should NEVER have been released, instead those feature pack features should of been rolled in to the main SMS2003 product as part of SP2!).
I was expecting a MAJOR announcement, instead of a quiet murmur. I'm really suprised at this ... Come on Microsoft, what on earth are you doing!!! OpMgr probably got more lead-in and announcement than ConfigMgr!
And, according to Bill Anderson this is a flag-ship product that defines a major milestone in the 17(?) years the product has been available. I guess the PR machine isn't going to blow the trumpet until TechED?
I just hope that MS keeping to the August shipment date doesn't mean that SCCM2007 is riddled with bugs (look at SCCM's brother for a bug ridden RTM release) and needs an SP pronto before it's stable ...
9/10 for SCCM2007 and getting the product out in August as predicted, 1/10 for announcement skills. Think someone needs to level up their PR character so it can cast Lvl 6 PR spells!