Stuart James at myITforum.com

What’s Coming in System Center Configuration Manager SP2

Some new features coming along in SP2.  Usual things such as support for new operating systems but some of the main highlights:

  • Branch Cache will be supported.  This is a feature in Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 for peer to peer content distribution. Very interesting…
  • Intel AMT Integration V2.  Improvements on features in  SP1 to add full feature support for computers that have the Intel vPro chip set and iAMT firmware versions 4 and 5.
  • Did I mention Branch Cache?

Comments

rzander said:

Branch Cache !!! waiting since years for this feature... (I assume it does use the PeerCaching feature of BITS 3.0 which is builtin since Vista ?)

# February 25, 2009 6:15 PM

sjames said:

I assume it must be a bit more than that as the peercaching feature didn't make it into SCCM because of some issues with package versioning.  I assume this is a slightly more advanced technology..

# February 26, 2009 5:25 AM