If  you were waiting to get your hand on the CTP of Microsoft Security Compliance Manager v2 after I wet your appetite in my previous blog post.  I am happy to report that it is now avaialbe for download and the instructions to download i can be found at http://blogs.technet.com/b/secguide/archive/2011/03/10/scm-v2-ctp-available-to-download.aspx

In case you did miss my previous post about the CTP of MCS v2 two major new features are:

1. Import GPO – Which allows you to import existing GPO Backups in to the SCM v2 tool for analysis.
2. Existing instance of SQL during install – They by not forcing you to install SQL Express to use the tool

For more information see my previous post at https://www.grouppolicy.biz/2011/03/introducing-microsoft-security-compliance-manager-v2/