Microsoft slates flurry of Configuration Management updates

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Microsoft Wednesday said Service Pack 1 for System Center Configuration Manager will be released in May and the last beta of the R2 version would come in July with a final release to follow by October.

The company also said the next version of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack would be updated with new desktop virtualization capabilities sometime between July and Sept. 1, 2008.The company also previewed a service called Knowledge Services that is a knowledge database of server configurations using data from end users. The service is designed to show users the most efficient and effective configurations for deployments such as Exchange.