SCCM 2007 R3

A couple of month’s ago our migration from SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007 was shelved until the new year. Given the current economic conditions it was decided that we needed to scale back and focus on a couple of ongoing core projects. Everything happens for a reason. Today the System Center Team announced their plans to release R3 for SCCM 2007
http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2009/09/08/announcing-system-center-configuration-manager-2007-r3.aspx
Microsoft is tentativly targeting the end of Q1 2010 for release. Here are a few high level features that R3 will include:

• Power Management, R3 will allow system administrators to monitor power consumption, report current power settings and deploy a power management scheme for their organization
• Many deployment capabilities for Windows 7 will be enabled
• Enhanced performance over earlier releases

Looks like we'll be running R3 right out of the gate...