System Center was voted at TechEd North America this year as the Best Microsoft Product. At TechEd NA 2012, System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2 was announced, there are many exciting new features coming up with CTP2.
There is a recorded session from TechEd NA on Channel 9 covering what is new in SP1
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/VIR201
Below is list of key new features.
All components now support Windows Server 2012 RC and SQL Server 2012.
| Component | What’s New | More Info |
| App Controller | · Ability to migrate a VM from VMM to Azure· Support for using Service Provider Foundation to create and operate VMs in VMM
· Azure IaaS enhancements: Ability to deploy VMs from an image or disk, start and stop VMs, and add VMs to a service |
More Info |
| Configuration Manager | · Support for Windows 8, including deploying Windows 8 applications and the ability to detect 3G and 4G network connections to prevent delivering software at a time when data charges may apply.· Additional operating support to extend manageability to Mac OS X and Unix/Linux 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 de-duplicated volumes · VM Live Migration: Uninterrupted data protection |
More Info |
| Operations Manager | APM enhancements, including:· Support for IIS8
· Monitoring of WCF, MVC and .NET NT services · Azure SDK support |
More Info |
| Orchestrator & Service Provider Foundation | · Supports existing System Center and 3rd-Party Integration Packs· Service Provider Foundation, which provides a rich set of web services that manage VMM:
o Create, change, and operate VMs o Manage VMM Self-service User Roles o Manage multiple VMM stamps and aggregate results from multiple stamps o Integration with App Controller to use hosted capacity |
More Info |
| Service Manager | · Ability to apply price sheets to VMM Clouds· Create VM chargeback reports
· Ability to pivot by Cost Center, VMM Clouds, and Price sheets |
More Info |
| Server App-V | · Support for applications that create scheduled tasks during the packaging process· Ability to create virtual application packages from applications installed natively on a remote server | |
| Virtual Machine Manager | · Improved support for network virtualization· Ability to convert VHD to VHDX and to use VHDX as a base operating system image
· Support for the Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service, thin provisioning of logical units, and discovery of SAS storage · You can now create Add-Ins that extend the VMM console. |
More Info |
There are list of Technical documents available now for you to start evaluation: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30134
Where to get it? Go to http://connect.Microsoft.com/SC, remember provide Feedback. This is CTP, which means it is even before Beta. Test it out and provide feedback, it will help Microsoft to make SC2012 SP1 even better.
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