What’s New for Client Deployment in SCCM 2012 SP1?

With the release of SCCM 2012 SP1, Microsoft has introduced many new features and made many changes in regards to Client Deployment. In this article, we look at What’s New for Client Deployment in SCCM 2012 SP1:

  • Automatic Upgrade of SCCM 2007/ 2012 RTM Clients to SP1 – SCCM 2012 SP1 Sites can be configured to automatically upgrade SCCM 2007 and SCCM 2012 Released to Manufacturing (RTM), Clients assigned to them to SP1.
  • New Client for Apple Macintosh OS X – SCCM 2012 SP1 includes a new Client for computers running Apple’s OS X Operating System. Once the SCCM Client has been installed, it can be managed by Compliance Settings, and you can collect Hardware Inventory from the machine and deploy software to it.
  • New Client for Linux and UNIX Servers – SCCM 2012 SP1 includes a new Client for Linux and UNIX Servers. Once the SCCM Client has been installed it can be managed by Compliance Settings, and you can collect Hardware Inventory from the machine and deploy software to it.
  • New “Disable deadline randomization” Computer Agent Client Setting – SCCM 2012 SP1 includes the new Disable deadline randomization Client Agent setting for the Computer Agent. If configured to Yes (the default), it disables the installation randomisation delay for required Software Updates and required Application Deployments.
  • New Installation Properties for CCMSetup during Client Push – SCCM 2012 SP1 includes the following new installation properties for CCMSetup.exe properties which can be used by Client Push:
    • /forcereboot
    • /skipprereq
    • /logon
    • /BITSPriority
    • /downloadtimeout
    • /forceinstall

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