We are happy to announce Operations Manager RC2 is now available for download. This release marks an important milestone on the road to our March MMS launch in San Diego (www.mms2007.com). Major Improvement Over RC1: Over 10,000 customers have downloaded Ops Mgr Beta 2. Our collective goal is to make sure each of you downloads and starts using the new RC2 today.

Key improvements in RC2 include:

• Performance and stability improvements
• More reliable and robust reporting installation and many more reports
• More Distributed Application templates
• Simplification of Self-tuning threshold configuration
• Operations Manager 2007 RC2 (Registered Microsoft Connect Users)