The document discusses the key features and improvements of the latest service pack for Configuration Manager 2012, including faster app publishing, enhanced data transfer reliability, and support for Windows 10 app deployments. It also highlights updates to driver management, OS deployment, and mobile application management, as well as various bug fixes and improvements to task sequences and access controls. Additionally, it mentions the scalability enhancements and performance upgrades for both primary and secondary sites.

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Configuration Manager 2012 latest Service Pack:
What you need to know
Nico Sienaert, Kenny Buntinx, Tim De Keukelaere, Kim Oppalfens

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5. Key
features
Faster virtual app
(App-V) publishing
at first logon for
non-persistent VDI
environments
Increased hierarchy
and primary
standalone site scale
Improved data
transfer reliability
for slow and latent
networks
Improved scale and
performance
for pull distribution
points (DP)
Hybrid parity
features for
ConfigMgr
integrated with
Microsoft Intune
Native support for
SQL Server 2014
Full compatibility
with existing
features for
Windows 10
SQL SQL

6. Support for Windows 10 app deployments
Fixed issues with app model supersedence

7. Faster (App-V) virtual app publishing at first logon for non-persistent VDI environments
In order to take advantage of this improvement,the following requirements must be met :
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8. Based on Windows ADK8.1 (upgrade later)
No Windows 10 Upgrade Task Sequence in SP1
• http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2014/10/29/how-to-upgrade-to-win-10-using-the-task-
sequence-in-sc-2012-r2-configmgr.aspx
No Windows 10 ZTI deployments yet

9. Better filter when importing drivers
Criteria for Driver import to Boot images
Fixed about 24 bugs and DCRs
But it is slower then before  Work in progress
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3070057

11. Problem: Task Sequence fails in Configuration Manager if software updates
require multiple restarts (KB2894518) aka double reboot updates
Save task sequence state/environment +- 1,5 sec.
New option to retry the step “Install software updates” if
computer unexpectedly restarts

12. Protect the assets as
Task sequences are by default categorized as high risk objects
Only valid when deployed with the purpose required
You will define the criteria for a high risk collection
by new site settings

13. OS distribution
Support for Windows 10 OS deployments
• Setup prerequisite is still Windows 8.1 ADK but it supports Windows 10 ADK
Improvements to driver management UI
Ability to notify IT admin before implementing a potentially risky task sequence OS deployment
Added task sequence resiliency during software update restarts
Improved consistency of Smsts logging so that events are fully tracked throughout the deployment
Role-based access for standalone media
Enhanced audit messages (Clearing a PXE flag on a collection, audit status message with ID 30,000 is not
generated if a Task Sequence is created and the console user is "Operating System Deployment Manager”)
“OS Installer Package” renamed to “OS Upgrade Packages”
Increased task sequence media supports >32GB USB
Resource access Support for multiple NDES servers per certificate profile
Application
management
Support for Windows 10 app deployments
Fixed issues with app model supersedence
Faster virtual app (App-V) publishing at first logon for non-persistent VDI environments

17. Conditional access to email - Process
Policy
verification
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Username
Microsoft Intune
Required settings
defined by IT admin:
Enrolled device
Encrypted device
Passcode set
Admin console
Not jailbroken/rooted
IT
ITUser

18. Conditional access to email - Process
Policy
verification
•••••••••
Username
Microsoft Intune
Required settings
defined by IT admin:
Enrolled device
Encrypted device
Passcode set
Admin console
Not jailbroken/rooted
IT
ITUser

19. Mobile application management
Maximize mobile productivity and protect corporate
resources with Office mobile apps
Extend these capabilities to existing line-of-business
apps using the Intune App Wrapping Tool
Enable secure viewing of content using the Managed
Browser, PDF Viewer, AV Player, and Image Viewer apps
Managed apps
Personal appsPersonal apps
Managed apps
ITUser

23. Content
management
Improved data-transfer reliability for slow and latent networks
• New checkpoint restart functionality between site servers and remote distribution points (DPs)
• New checkpoint restart with failover functionality between source DPs and Pull DPs
Ability to define HTTPS configured source DPs for Pull DPs via the management console
Added start/end date for “distribution point usage summary" report and bug fixes
Improved Pull DP scale, reliability and performance
Hierarchy
Added client auto-upgrade option to exclude servers
Native support for SQL Server 2014
Increased hierarchy scale to 600K
Increased standalone primary site scale to 150K with WSUS optimizations
• Scale limit remains at 100K when attached to Central Administration Site (CAS)
Increased secondary site scale to support up to 10K clients
Improved management point (MP) rotation logic so when a client gets a new MP list, the client doesn’t
arbitrarily choose a new MP
Improved preferred MP list logic so clients get MP list ordered with MPs in a boundary group at the top of the
list

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