Get Ready for SCCM ConfigMgr Intune New Features. Microsoft has announced the latest versions of ConfigMgr 2012 and Intune during TechEd North America 2013.
ConfigMgr 2012 R2 is the newest version of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1.
The official blog post is here. To learn more about the new features available with ConfigMgr 2012 R2 and Windows Intune vNext, watch the following video on channel 9 here.
More details on SCCM 2012 R2 New Features via TechNet. Watch out for the TechEd North America 2013 Videos to learn more about ConfigMgr 2012 R2, Intune’s next version, and MDT updates @channel9 – more videos are here.
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Get Ready for SCCM ConfigMgr Intune New Features
My version of ConfigMgr 2012 R2 updates about new features or enhancements are here :
- Intune LOB and Win32 Apps Together Co-Exist with New Windows Autopilot
- Defender Settings Getting Removed for Comanaged SCCM 2309 and 2403 Clients
- SCCM 2403 New Key Features and Improvements
- New Features in SCCM Technical Preview 2401
Reduced Infra Requirements
- Obsolete Reason for having a Primary Site – Untrusted Forests (new in R2)
- Ability to reassign clients between ConfigMgr Sites with a hierarchy
- Support of restoring SQL Database to a different server during recovery
Content Management and RBA
- A new report shows how much a particular DP is used
- Content replication made less chatty over the WAN
- Pull DP enhanced for scale and monitoring
- RBA support for reporting
OSD (OS Deployment)
- Enable Pre-stage Content File
- Bulk USB media Creation from ISO
- App install Status in Task Sequence
- Integrate key MDT ZTI tasks to native ConfigMgr OS deployment
Mobile Device Management
- Native IOS app for Self-service portal for ConfigMgr + Intune
- Android Agent and Self-Service Portal ConfigMgr + Intune
If you don’t have much time to go through the entire video (mentioned above) and are looking for a quick overview, here are some links that would help !!
- Configuration Manager 2012 R2 announced – recording available! – Jörgen Nilsson
- ConfigMgr 2012 R2 and next version of Windows Intune announced, yesterday – Peter Daalmans
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Author
Anoop C Nair is Microsoft MVP! He is a Device Management Admin with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His primary focus is Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. He writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc.