System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Release Candidate

It's hot from oven! System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012 Release Candidate was published at Microsoft Download Center dated 26/10/2011.

The improvement of the release candidates as below, quoted from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27841.


New features in the release candidate include:

- Improved endpoint protection functionality, with integrated setup, management and reporting of System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection.

- Improved application catalog design that provides a better, more responsive experience when requesting and downloading applications.

- New support for Windows Embedded devices, including Windows Embedded 7 SP1, POS-Ready 7, Windows 7 Think PC, and Windows Embedded Compact 7.

- Improved compliance enforcement and tracking, with the ability to create dynamic collections of baseline compliance and generate hourly compliance summaries.

- Platform support for deep mobile device management of Nokia Symbian Belle devices. Pending a platform update by Nokia later this calendar year for these devices, customers will be able to try out the management of Nokia devices with Configuration Manager.