Late on Friday, we declared SCCM 2007 RC1 ready for release to the web!  It is now available on connect.

For the Software Updates Management feature, RC1 brings a number of improvements, including new reports for overall per-machine compliance, scan errors, deployment errors; reorganized categorization of reports; ability for end users to schedule installations prior to deadline ("install updates every day at 3am"); capability to hide icons and balloon notifications from end users (silent mode); many many performance and scalability improvements; and a lot more.  I'll follow-up in future posts to talk more about all of this.