SCCM 2007 RC1 is Released!

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.