The System Center Operations Manager team released the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta 1 yesterday. Operations Manager 2007 R2 introduces key new and enhanced functionality, including:

Enhanced application performance and availability across heterogeneous platforms

• Delivers monitoring across Windows, Linux and Unix servers-all through a single console.
• Extends end to end monitoring of distributed applications to any workload running on Windows, Unix and Linux platforms.
• Maximize availability of virtual workloads with integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.

Improved management of applications in the data center

• Delivers on the scale requirements of URL monitoring of your business.
• Meet agreed service levels with enhanced reporting showing application performance and availability.
• More efficient problem identification and action to resolve issues.

Increased speed of access to information and functionality to drive management

• Faster load times for views and results.
• Improved and simplified management pack authoring experience

The Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta integrates the functionality delivered within the Cross Platform Extensions Beta. New betas of the Interoperability Connectors will be available shortly.

The Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta 1 is available for download through Microsoft Connect.
https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/Downloads.aspx?SiteID=446