Microsoft have released Service Pack 1 CTP2 days after announcing it at TechEd in the US. You can download the CTP here. This Community Technology Preview (“CTP2”) enables System Center customers to jointly evaluate System Center 2012 and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate. CTP2 includes updates and enhancements to the following System Center 2012 components:
- Configuration Manager
- Support for Windows 8
- Support for Mac OS clients
- Support for Linux and Unix servers
- Virtual Machine Manager
- Improved Support for Network Virtualization
- Extend the VMM console with Add-ins
- Support for Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service, thin provisioning of logical units and discovery of SAS storage
- Ability to convert VHD to VHDX, use VHDX as base Operating System image
- Support for latest versions of XenServer, vSphere
- Data Protection Manager
- Improved backup performance of Hyper-V over CSV 2.0
- Protection for Hyper-V over remote SMB share
- Protection for Windows Server 2012 de-duplicated volumes
- Uninterrupted protection for VM live migration
- App Controller
- Service Provider Foundation API to create and operate Virtual Machines
- Support for Azure VM; migrate VHDs from VMM to Windows Azure, manage from on-premise System Center
- Operations Manager
- Support for IIS 8
- Monitoring of WCF, MVC and .NET NT services
- Azure SDK support
- Orchestrator
- Additional support for Integration Packs, including 3rd party
- Manage VMM self-service User Roles
- Manage multiple VMM ‘stamps’ (scale units), aggregate results from multiple stamps
- Integration with App Controller to consume Hosted clouds
- Service Manager
- Apply price sheets to VMM clouds
- Create chargeback reports
- Pivot by cost center, VMM clouds, Pricesheets
- Server App-V
- Support for applications that create scheduled tasks during packaging
- Create virtual application packages from applications installed remotely on native server
Releated reading:
- Marius Sandbu has a nice description of the CTP here.
- http://myitforum.com/
myitforumwp/2012/06/15/system- center-2012-service-pack-1- ctp2-is-available - http://myitforum.com/
myitforumwp/2012/06/14/ configmgr-2012-sp1-features
- The session recording where CM12 SP1 was announced is available at http://channel9.msdn.com/
Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/ .2012/MGT309
cheers !
niall
