It is official: System Center 2012 SP1 has reached General Availability. Summarization of the new capabilities you can find on the System Center blogs:
- System Center: Operations Manager Engineering Blog
- System Center: Virtual Machine Manager Engineering Blog
- System Center: Service Manager Engineering Blog
- System Center Orchestrator Engineering Blog
- System Center: Data Protection Manager
- System Center Configuration Manager
If you want to test the components you can download VHD files that will help you with that:
- System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Operations Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Data Protection Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Service Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Service Manager (Data Warehouse) – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Orchestrator – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Configuration Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – App Controller – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Virtual Machine Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
I trial version of the product can be downloaded from here.
Documentation for download:
- Technical Documentation Download for Technical Scenarios for System Center 2012 SP1
- Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – App Controller
- Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – Data Protection Manager
- Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager
- Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – Orchestrator
- Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – Service Manager
- Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager
List of SC 2012 SP1 KB articles:
- List of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 KBs
- List of System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 KBs
Kevin Holman’s QuickStart deployment guides:
- OpsMgr 2012 SP1: QuickStart deployment guide
- Orchestrator 2012 SP1: a QuickStart deployment guide
- ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 – A QuickStart deployment Guide
- Service Manager 2012 SP1 – QuickStart deployment guide
- SCVMM 2012 SP1 – QuickStart deployment guide
Microsoft Virtual Academy Courses:
- Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals – Learn how Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V, and System Center 2012 SP1 can help you build, deploy, and manage private cloud architecture. NOTE: This course becomes available on Jan 15.
- System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Updates – Learn about the enhancements to each of the System Center 2012 SP1 components, which includes added support for Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012 and tighter integration with Windows Azure. NOTE: This course becomes available on Jan 16.
- COMING SOON: System Center 2012 SP1 Capabilities – Learn about the configuration and management of the infrastructure, services and applications available from System Center 2012 SP1. NOTE: This course becomes available on Jan 31.
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