There were actually quite some sessions which gave a good preview of the SCOM2012 version which is pre-beta now and will become RTM by the end of 2012.
Until then more and more features will be communicated.
One of the most interesting features actually is that SCOM 2012 will tackle one of the biggest nightmares of all SCOM admins: the SPOF which is called RMS. All SCOM admins will have to admit that at one point or another they faced problems with their RMS which was acting up funny. In SCOM 2007 you are only allowed to run one RMS which is actually a MS which has the Root MS role. The SDK service can only and exclusively run on this machine making it the hart of your SCOM environment.
Your environment is highly impacted when your RMS is down.
The consciences:
Fortunately this is tackled in SCOM 2012 by a new organization of the management servers. RMS which was introduced in SCOM 2007 will be history. In fact all the management servers (MS) will be automatically joined to a management pool which will all have the SDK service running. Because all the MS have the SDK service running they can all perform the task of the old RMS
This has some nice advantages:
The management pool is automatically created when you install the first MS and it will automatically add all MS’s which are installed afterwards.
Pretty cool feature if you ask me
Seems like Microsoft Really beefed up the network monitoring features. There’s a complete new way of discovering new devices which are in your environment. A nice cool feature is the map which is drawn of your network. You can also check which components are in the vicinity of the troublesome device so this can be very helpful in case of a faulty device.