System Center 2012 SP1 additional components are updated

———————More downloads were added——————————-

After the release of System Center 2012 SP1 on Technet and MSDN before Christmas which is kind of unofficial release it is time for the official one. There is a rumor that tomorrow (04.01.2013) Microsoft will officially announce Service Pack 1 for System Center 2012. As a hint for this official announcement is that several additional components for SC 2012 SP1 were updated from Beta to RTM today. Here you can find them:

Note: Some of the components may still have BETA word in their names but if you see the change log on the webpage you will see that final version was uploaded.

Technet Library: New in System Center 2012 SP1 was updated

Soon after the release of System Center 2012 SP1 for MSDN and TechNet subscribers Microsoft updated the SC 2012 SP1 library with the changes that are included in SP1. Information about changes in all components you can find here.

IBM Inventory Tool for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, v1.0

IBM has released a new tool to integrate with System Center 2012 component. IBM Inventory Tool for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Version 1.0 allows SCCM to collect IBM specific hardware inventory of IBM system x or x86 Blade servers, so administrators can view these IBM specific hardware inventory information in SCCM environment. Such tool exists for HP hardware for a long time so IBM is trying to advance in the rivalry.

Key features include:

  • Support of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007/2012
  • Automatically create IBM Inventory Tool Client as SCCM software distribution package
  • Automatically add IBM Inventory Classes to SCCM server
  • Support Multilanguage: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

You can download the tool from here.

System Center 2012 SP1 RTM is available for download on MSDN

The long waited Service Pack 1 of System Center 2012 has reached RTM and it is now available for download on MSDN. It seems the rumors were true. This is a Christmas gift from Microsoft Smile.

image

Video Session: Discover Great Reasons to move to ConfigMgr 2012 SP1

As we are close to System Center 2012 SP1 RTM Microsoft is publishing a video from Technet Session in Belgium by Nico Sienaert titled Discover Great Reasons to move to ConfigMgr 2012 SP1. This is good session if you want to know about the new features in SCCM 2012 SP1.