SCCM 2007 R3 Announced

The System Center team has today announced the plans for the upcoming SCCM 2007 R3.

The added features are mostly about power management,  a feature I think captures the zeitgeist in a great way.

In these times of financial crisis, IT-departments are looking to cut costs, and are at the same time encouraged to “think Green IT”

The upcoming release of the SCCM 2007  R3 can help IT-departments address both these concerns – by providing tools for power management for SCCM 2007 clients.

A PC that uses less energy both costs less and pollutes less.

The System Center team sums up the new features like this:

A. Help the organization plan a power strategy by monitoring current power state and consumptions and reporting on machine utilization trends, current power settings and current energy consumption

B. Enable the Administrator to easily create, deploy and enforce specific power settings using the existing ConfigMgr infrastructure
−Ability to set peak and non-peak schedules
−Ability to remediate settings if changed
−Ability to opt out machines from power policy

C. Provide the business meaningful report formats that are relevant to Power Management

The release are planned for Q1 2010.

Click here for a sneak peak of the reports
(and check out the “environmental impact report” at the end -pretty cool I think).

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