Modeling on the System Center Product Roadmap

OM 2007 is the first in a wave of new product releases from Microsoft’s Windows and Enterprise Management Division scheduled for 2007 and early 2008 and branded with the System Center moniker. Many of these products-including those for software deployment and computer configuration, monitoring, capacity planning, and other management tasks-will leverage management models in one fashion or another, sometimes indirectly by augmenting products that rely heavily on the models.

(For a graphical overview of the release schedule for all System Center products that leverage management models, see the illustration “System Center Product Timeline“.)

Operations Manager

Following OM 2007, which shipped in April 2007, the following releases are planned:

OM 2007 Update. Microsoft plans an update to OM 2007 in late summer or fall of 2007 to allow OM 2007 to run on and manage Windows Server 2008 (code-named Longhorn) servers. The company has not yet decided whether this will take the form of a service pack or a hotfix.