Minnesota Sytem Center User Group

Microsoft released SCCM 2007 SP1 yesterday. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5AAE62E8-4B7F-4AF7-BE01-AEFAA4BF059A&displaylang=en

They also released RC1 for Hyper-V: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950049

And today I see IE 8 Beta 2 info:

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Readiness Information

Ensuring your website is ready for Internet Explorer 8

Consistent with our efforts to promote further interoperability across the Web, Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant way by default.  Giving top priority to Web standards interoperability allows us to help web developers and designers drive toward the ideal of “write once, run anywhere”, freeing up more time to innovate rather than modify content for different browsers.  This commitment also addresses several development and design pain points from previous Internet Explorer releases.

However, browsing with this default setting may cause content written for previous versions of Internet Explorer to display differently than intended.  This creates a call to action for site owners to ensure their content will continue to display seamlessly in Internet Explorer 8.  As such, we have provided a meta-tag usable on a per-page or per-site level to maintain backwards compatibility with Internet Explorer 7.  Adding this tag instructs Internet Explorer 8 to render content like it did in Internet Explorer 7, without requiring any additional changes.

We are encouraging site administrators to get their sites ready now for broad adoption of Internet Explorer 8, as there will be a beta release in the third quarter of this year targeted for all consumers.  To learn more and get started, please follow the step-by-step instructions located at the following link:  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120024.

Additional Resources
The following links provide additional information you may find useful:

We will meet again next Wednesday 5/14 at the Microsoft Bloomington Office, 9th floor - around 4:30pm. This month we will focus on discussing what we took back from MMS, as many from our group attended.  As for the format, we will officially call this a round table discussion session, but we will try to have 3-4 different attendees discuss their top take away points and probably break into groups after that.

Everyone who attended would agree that there was a wealth of information at the conference, so if you were unable to attend this is a good opportunity to find out what will be coming in the following months with System Center.  If you were there and like me you were triple booked for every session hopefully we can fill in information on sessions you may have missed.