MMS2008 - Wednesday 1
Keynote: A few announcements (probably mostly known): ConfigMgr 07 SP1 in May, R2 (release candidate) in July. An update to Desktop Optimization Pack in Q3 2008; as a subscription service anticipate updates every 6 months.
A demo of the R2 Out of Band Management Console to (for example) remotely look at bios and change settings.
A demo of in-development product, Asset Knowledge Service. They announced that anyone can ask to join, so if anyone might be interested in participating--your company would need to be willing to forward data upstream to Microsoft (they didn't explain it like this, but I equated the process involved to be similar to that question you see when a driver doesn't load correctly, or a app crashes of "send this information to Microsoft yes/no"). If you might want to join, email knowledge@microsoft.com .