Of course you may want to test drive the final SCOM 2007 version using this 180-day trial.”
Download it here.

Want some quick help… Well, have a quick look in the public SCOM 2007 newsgroups:

microsoft.public.opsmgr.acs
microsoft.public.opsmgr.ad
microsoft.public.opsmgr.aem
microsoft.public.opsmgr.authoring
microsoft.public.opsmgr.docs
microsoft.public.opsgmr.exchange
microsoft.public.opsmgr.general
microsoft.public.opsmgr.iis
microsoft.public.opsmgr.managementpacks
microsoft.public.opsmgr.powershell
microsoft.public.opsmgr.reporting
microsoft.public.opsmgr.sdk
microsoft.public.opsmgr.setup
microsoft.public.opsmgr.sql
microsoft.public.opsmgr.ui

Or maybe you want some new features demo-ed… Have a look here.

Some other help resources:

Operations Manager 2007 Technical Library 

Operations Manager 2007 Online Help

Operations Manager 2007 Product Site

HP offers two management packs; the ProLiant Management Pack for ProLiant Servers and the Integrity Management Pack for Integrity Servers. Both are available at no cost and can be downloaded here.

For more details, see here.

As you might now, all data which is transferred to the datawarehouse for long-term trend analysis is kept by default for 395 days.
Depending on the number of management packs and events/alerts you are creating, the SCDW database can become quite big…

To change the grooming setting on the SCDW from 395 days to 180 days, you will have to use a stored procedure from SQL Analyser the change those parameters.

There is no graphical interface available from MOM.

So open the SQL Analyzer, switch to the “SystemCenterReporting” database from the database drop-down, and enter the following command
Exec p_updategroomdays ‘Table_Name_Here’, DaysToRetain
for different tables:

SC_EventParameterFact_Table
SC_AlertFact_Table
SC_SampledNumericDataFact_Table
SC_AlertToEventFact_Table
SC_EventFact_Table
SC_AlertHistoryFact_Table

For more information: Q887016

To initiate the grooming process, run the SQL Server Agent scheduled job “SDCWGroomJob”.
To avoid extreme growth of the SCDW, you should really have a look at the MOM 2005 Summary Reporting Pack, which you can download here.

• SCOM 2007 deployment scenario’s and the new OpsMgr server roles
• SCOM 2007 security guide
• SCOM 2007 management pack guides (Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server, IIS, SMS, etc…)

Find more information here.

It’s been a while… but i’m truly impressed what this stuff… The way of the future: turning a table into a collaborative means to interact with other people.

Have a look at Microsoft Surface.