Yes, yes, I know.  Late to the party.  Better late than never.   

For those that don’t know – SCOM 2016 was released at Ignite this year, on Sept 29th.

It hit the GA milestone on October 12th, which is the date it becomes Generally Available on Volume License media and MSDN, along with the date it becomes officially supported.

You can download the 180 day EVAL – which is available at:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-system-center-2016

The EVAL version is fully capable of being licensed with your key from MSDN or Volume Licensing, later after you deploy.

Want to know more?

UR1 is available:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/momteam/2016/10/14/update-rollup-1-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager-is-now-available/

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/kevinholman/2016/10/22/ur1-for-scom-2016-step-by-step/

New feature on tuning MP’s:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/momteam/2016/10/18/system-center-2016-operations-manager-data-driven-alert-management-tune-management-packs/

New feature on recommended MP’s and MP updates:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/momteam/2016/10/18/system-center-2016-operations-manager-mp-updates-and-recommendations-management-pack-assessment/

New feature on HTML based Web Console:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/momteam/2016/10/18/html-based-web-console/

http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2016/09/scom-2016-web-console-no-more.html

Improvements in console UI speed:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/momteam/2016/10/18/improved-ui-responsiveness-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager/

New tools for improving the network monitoring MP authoring experience:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/momteam/2016/10/20/system-center-operations-manager-extensible-network-monitoring/

https://stefanroth.net/2016/10/19/scom-extensible-network-monitoring-management-pack-generator-tool/

New feature for Scheduled Maintenance mode:

https://scomandothergeekystuff.com/2016/07/13/new-features-in-scom-2016-maintenance-schedules/

New Unix/Linux features and improvements:

https://stefanroth.net/2016/08/24/scom-2016-whats-new-unixlinux-series-file-system-discovery-e-g-exclude-tmp/

https://stefanroth.net/2016/08/24/scom-2016-whats-new-unixlinux-series-monitors-and-rules-running-any-script-e-g-perl/

https://stefanroth.net/2016/08/16/scom-2016-whats-new-unixlinux-series-agent-tasks-running-scripts-e-g-perl/

https://stefanroth.net/2016/08/15/scom-2016-whats-new-unixlinux-series-discovery-wizard-provide-runas-account/