System Center Orchestrator - CEP Kickoff

I've just finished the CEP Kickoff meeting for System Center Orchestrator (formally Opalis) and I can't wait for the downloads of the Beta to become available tomorrow on the connect site.

Couple of useful bits of information already, the first being the requirement for SQL 2008 R2, time to get upgrading/installing as my test labs currently only use 2008 due to the requirements for ConfigMgr 2012.

The other bit of useful information is the IP's that are currently being worked on ready for release so that they're ready to go.

Nice to see more work being done on the AD 2008/R2 IP, not to sure on the FTP one though, I can't remember the last time I FTP'd something ;)