The ConfigMgr Team have just released their Support Announcement for this month (see full blog post below). As a quick summary SQL 2012 SP1 is now supported on the following:

• ConfigMgr 2007 SP2/ R3 (requires KB2676776)
• ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 (NOT RTM)
• Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP 2010) (requires KB2683558)
• System Center Security Monitoring Pack for Endpoint Protection now supports System Center 2012 Operations Manager SP1

Full details below: “We are announcing support changes for the following releases. These changes will be reflected in the Configuration Manager 2007 Supported Configurations and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Supported Configurations within the next month.

Configuration Manager 2007 and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 now support Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1.

The following table lists the roles/features that are supported for each product with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1.

*For Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 and R3, hotfix KB2676776 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2676776 is required. ** For a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 secondary site, you can use SQL Server 2012 SP1 or SQL Server Express 2012 SP1. No software updates are required for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1. Note:  System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RTM (no service pack) does not support SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2012 SP1.

Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP 2010) now supports SQL Server 2012 SP1.

Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 now supports upgrading an existing Forefront Endpoint Protection database and reporting database to Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1. To use SQL Server 2012 SP1 with Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010, you must upgrade the existing instance of SQL Server from SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2012. It is not supported to install new Forefront Endpoint Protection components on an existing or new instance of SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2012 SP1. The following update is required to use Forefront Endpoint Protection with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and 2012 SP1. Forefront Endpoint Protection data warehouse and reports fail to get new data on SQL Server 2012 –http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2683558

System Center Security Monitoring Pack for Endpoint Protection now supports System Center 2012 Operations Manager SP1.

No software updates are required.   –Yvette O’Meally” Original post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2013/02/11/support-announcements-for-february-2013.aspx

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Microsoft has just updated the following KB Article: An update for Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 is available http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2720211 I’ve updated the list of KB Articles for ConfigMgr 2012 accordingly.

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