Chaos News: MIIS SP2 Update

In the MIIS TechNet forum today, Community Program Manager Alym Rayani had this to say regarding the upcoming Service Pack 2 for MIIS:

MIIS SP2 will include updates such as support for the latest version of Microsoft platform technologies like SQL 2005, Visual Studio 2005. In addition, we are aiming to release a number of new management agents in the same timeframe – SAP, Oracle 10g, and Top Secret and ACF2 as part of the Host Access Management Agent MA. We are also striving to better integrate MIIS with 64 bit and Virtual Server technology.

We expect MIIS SP2 will beta in late summer. SP2 will ship with 32-bit support before the end of the calendar year, and 64-bit support will follow.

Out of everything planned, I think I am most excited about SQL 2005 and pending 64 bit support. Let's hope that SQL 2005 offers some performance increases for MIIS - especially in the area of split server configurations where the metaverse and the MIIS application are on separate servers.