I thought it may be a good idea to drop a copy of the Opsmgr SP1 Upgrade guide here for those planning deployments. Lots of information to take in and a few caveats besides.  This can be found on the SP1 RTM CD image in the ProductDocumentation folder...

Woohoo! I have the pleasure of announcing that the SP1 RTM (US English) is now available (other languages follow schedules March through May)   The SP1 RTM Eval Web Package is available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...

I've come across a number of cases in the past where Opsmgr/SCE server role installation may fail, or even post installation processes such as report deployment can fail with no indication as to why. Some symptoms you may see which may indicate the need...

This list will be an the update to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944443/en-us (List of issues that are fixed in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate). This article will be updated shortly to reflect the KB articles...

Bottom line = SP1 does not yet provide support for any role running on Windows Server 2008. Read on . . .   The Supported Configurations Guide included with SP1 RTM (ProductDocumentation folder) states the following: Windows Server 2008 Operating...

I've seen several questions on this topic both internally and externally so it deserves more of an explanation than the upgrade guide possibly supplies. If you have installed the SP1 RC Evaluation version or SP1 Evaluation version and need to upgrade...

    On Feb 22nd we shipped the Service Pack 1 of OpsMgr 2007. We made one last minute change to one of the upgrade steps in the upgrade guide which did not make it to the upgrade documentation that was shipped with the SP1 bits. If you are upgrading...

Take a look in the Authoring Management Packs section of the following page http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/default.aspx for 32-bit and 64-bit downloads of the release candidate. The Authoring Guide is also available for download from the same...

The Report Authoring guide is now available via the following link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d826b836-59e5-4628-939e-2b852ed79859&DisplayLang=en   Also applies to the original release, however one aspect Report...

The following new converted (Converted MOM 2005 MP's)  MP's have been released to the Web:   Antigen 9 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=72cda2c2-6dbd-4c70-bfcc-d2c8c6e459d3&DisplayLang=en Automated Deployment Services...

The SQL MP has been refreshed which is a documentation update only http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8c0f970e-c653-4c15-9e51-6a6cadfca363&DisplayLang=en The MP Guide now includes the changes made to the MP in the last update...

Finally the edits for SP1 RTM have been made to  http://support.microsoft.com/?id=944443   SUMMARY This article lists the issues that are fixed in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1). INTRODUCTION This article...

An updated Operations guide has been released to the web and is available for download via http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498235.aspx Here is the revision history for this update:     February 22, 2008 Added "Maintenance and...

Read all about the release here http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx I've been running this for around a week now and I'm soooo happy in the performance gains I'm seeing:)

See http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/02/04/windows-server-2008-rtm.aspx   Now the OpsMgr 2007 support for Server 2008 clock starts ticking. Support requirements will typically be published within 90 days of RTM. At the moment Operations...

System Center Capacity Planner 2007 has RTM'ed and is available for download via the following link http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/sccp/default.mspx   Currently SCCP supports the following capacity model : Microsoft Exchange Server 2007  ...

Are available http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb986763.aspx

As Marius discussed ( http://blogs.msdn.com/mariussutara/archive/2008/01/21/operations-manager-2007-sp1-tracing.aspx ) SP1 introduces some changes in SP1 to debug level tracing sometimes required when working with Customer Support Services (CSS) on issues...

Monitoring you Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=75cea55b-204f-497e-b75f-ec57c4b27aa0&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and System Center - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...

Worth while keeping your feeds updated with info on  http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2008/02/23/system-center-operations-manager-2007-service-pack-1-sp1-now-available.aspx The TechCenter is already in the process of updates related...

The Operations Manager Authoring Guide is now available http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/OM2007_AuthGuide.doc . The Authoring Console RTM is not yet available. The Deployment Guide updated for SP1 is available...

All these by the way are issued fixed in Service Pack 1 KB941017  (The "Columns to display," "Sort columns by," and "Group items by text" values in the Inventory View properties are not localized in System Center Operations...

The converted DPM MP for OpsMgr07 is now available http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a3e0a46d-aad9-4ebf-9ce8-c5242d0e596c&DisplayLang=en As this is a converted MP it has a dependency upon the Backward Compatibility Management...

The WSUS 3.0 MP for OpsMgr07 has been released to the Web and is available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5913af83-965a-4db1-b657-25bbccddcf7d&DisplayLang=en

Newly published MOM 2005 KB - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947679