Microsoft moved another suite of products also into the Semi-Annual channel of releases. A few months back Windows 10 also moved to Semi-Annual channel releases. So it seems Microsoft is trying to streamline the release management channel for all their products. I don’t think SCCM is included in this Semi-Annual channel updates. But it’s interesting to see that Neowin reported that SCCM is also part of the Semi-Annual channel.
I agree that the SCCM is part of System Center Products as per Microsoft official site here. But SCCM doesn’t follow semi-annual channel of released. Instead, SCCM follows 4 month update channel.
Microsoft never mentioned that System Center Semi-Annual release management applies SCCM. It’s clear that only other products like DPM, SCOM, VMM, Orchestrator, SM, SMA, and SPF are moved to semi-annual update channel.
Microsoft System Center offers enterprise-class datacenter management for your heterogeneous IT environments. System Center, version 1801 (semi-annual channel) and download the evaluation version from here. There is NO download available for SCCM on the list.
Following is the list of available Downloads
SCOM_1801_EN.exe, SCOM_1801_ES.exe, SCOM_1801_PT-PT.exe, SCOM_1801_SV.exe, SCOM_1801_RU.exe, SCOM_1801_FR.exe, SCOM_1801_CS.exe, SCOM_1801_KO.exe, SCOM_1801_PT-BR.exe, SCOM_1801_PL.exe, SCOM_1801_NL.exe, SCOM_1801_IT.exe, SCOM_1801_CN.exe, SCOM_1801_TW.exe, SCOM_1801_TR.exe SCOM_1801_DE.exe, SCOM_1801_HU.exe, SCOM_1801_JA.exe SCDPM_1801.exe, SCVMM_1801.exe, SCO_1801.exe, SCSM_1801.exe SCSM_Auth_1801.exe, SCSM_x86_1801.exe
System Center Operations Manager: Monitor health, capacity, and usage across applications, workloads, and infrastructure. System Center Virtual Machine Manager: Deploy and manage your virtualized, software-defined datacenter with a comprehensive solution for networking, storage, compute, and security System Center Data Protection Manager: Protect your data with backup, storage, and recovery for private cloud deployments, physical machines, clients, and server applications. System Center Orchestrator: Automate your datacenter tasks; efficiently create and execute runbooks using native PowerShell scripts. System Center Service Manager: Automated service delivery tool for incident resolution, change control, and asset lifecycle management. System Center Endpoint Protection: Protect client and server operating systems against the latest malware threats; built on System Center Configuration Management for unified control.
What’s New in System Center 1801
What's New in Data Protection Manager 1801 What's New in SCOM 1801 What's New in VMM 1801 What's New in Orchestrator 1801 What's New in SM 1801 What's New in SMA 1801 What's New in SPF 1801
System Center 1801 Release Notes
Data Protection Manager DPM 1801 Release Notes OpsMgr SCOM 1801 Release Notes Orchestrator 1801 Release Notes Service Manager SM 1801 Release Notes Service Management Automation SMA 1801 Release Notes Service Provider Foundation SPF 1801 Release Notes Virtual Machine Manager VMM 1801 Release Notes