Showing posts with label Service Pack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Service Pack. Show all posts

Friday, 15 June 2012

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 CTP2 - What's New?

So Service Pack 1 CTP2 has just been released for download:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30133

With the Technical Documentation here:

I don't know if it's an oversight or not, but there is currently no technical doc for ConfigMgr....

From scanning the documents quick, here's a high level new feature list:

App Controller
  • Upload a virtual hard disk or image to Windows Azure from a VMM library or network share
  • Add a virtual machine to a deployed service in Windows Azure
  • Start, stop, and connect to virtual machines in Windows Azure
  • Migrate a virtual machine from VMM to Windows Azure
  • Deploy a virtual machine in Windows Azure to create hosted service
  • Add a Service Provider Framework (SPF) hosting provider connection
Orchestrator
  • In System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012 are both supported.
  • 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

Virtual Machine Manager
  • Network Virtualization
  • VHDX Support
  • SMB 3.0 File Shares
  • Live Migration Enhancements
  • Storage enhancements
  • Provision a Physical Computer as a Hyper-V Host - Enhancements
  • Support for VMM console add-ins

Service Manager
  • SQL Server 2012 Support
  • New Charge Back Feature

Operations Manager
  • New APM Monitoring Capabilities (WCF, MVC and .NET NT services)
  • New MP and support for Windows Server 2012 and IIS 8
  • Azure SDK support

Configuration Manager
  • Support for Windows 8
  • Support for Mac OS clients
  • Support for Linux and Unix servers

Data Protection Manager
  • Improved backup performance of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over CSV 2.0 deployments
  • Protect Hyper-V over remote SMB share
  • Protect Windows 8 deduplicated volumes
  • Support for Live Migration (Uninterupted Protection)
  • Use SQL Server 2012 to host DPM database
Server App-V
  • Support for applications that create scheduled tasks during packaging
  • Create virtual application packages from applications installed remotely on native server

Thursday, 16 December 2010

Service Manager SP1 is RTM and available for download

Microsoft Service Manager 2010 Service Pack 1 has just had been released.

You can find it available for download here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=5118055b-9cd7-45cd-bae6-7fc287d832d7&displaylang=en

The Service Manager Engineering Team blog has more information here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2010/12/16/system-center-service-manager-2010-sp1-available-for-download-now.aspx

Main features included in this release:
  • Consolidation of all language versions in a single release and readiness for simultaneous shipping at RTM.
  • Support for 10 additional languages (See documentation for details)
  • Integration of the Authoring Tool release and three cumulative updates
  • Performance fixes across the board in data access layer
  • Generic performance tracing in SDK
  • Performance enhancement for transforms
  • Usability and accessibility fixes throughout the product
  • Fixes in AD / OM connectors including support of importing Exchange 2003 distributed application
  • Notification issues related to multiple notifications
  • Localizability and globalization fixes throughout the product
  • Data, layout, and localization fixes in reports
  • Data warehouse enhancements including additional numeric datatype support for measures
  • Support of SQL 2008 R2
  • UI memory leak fixes
  • Intel Video Driver issue causing console crashes fixed by third party (Intel)

I know of two fixes that directly affect issues in my environment that MS kindly back ported the fixes from SP1 so that I could carry on working last week (Thankyou once again Suzanne!):
  • Cannot insert duplicate row in Datawarehouse error message
  • Cannot deploy System Center Configuration Manager 2007 management pack