SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager

SCCM v.Next details from MMS

Hi All,

MMS 2009 is coming to an end and I finally found some time to start sharing some of the info I received earlier this week on ConfigMgr v.Next, the next version of SCCM due out somewhere in 2011.

Let me start by saying that it has been a great conference, and for those of you that didn't make it this year, and that are working in the systems management space, make sure you are here next year, because you are missing out on a lot of great stuff.

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Belgium was incredibly under-present at this conference; there were only 7 Belgian people here from 5 different companies. 2 Independents (Me & Kurt Van hoecke), 3 from Belgacom, David Vanderkelen from Telindus and Kenny from ComputaCenter. I guess it shows who is willing to invest in systems management knowledge.

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Let me start by saying that SCCM v.Next is still 2 years away, so a lot of these things could still change quite a bit. I will start with the stuff that is more or less set in stone.

• SCCM v.Next will be a 64bit only application just like Exchange 2007 is.
• SCCM v.Next will require SQL Server 2008
• SCCM v.Next will allow you to move deployments to User centric as opposed to device centric as we have done in the past. (More on that in an upcoming post)
• The MMC 3.0 console will be replaced by a new "wunderbar"-based console to be inline with OpsMgr, VmMgr

   

Now for the stuff that is not 100% confirmed yet:

• The security model will be replaced by a Role based access control mechanism with Security roles and security scopes (more food for a new post)
• Software updates will support auto-accept rules to automatically start deploying specific update types (security updates) for specific products (Windows Vista)
• Setup will require you to pass the quizzes from the documentation team before allowing you to continue
• Remote control will bring back the option to press Ctrl+Alt+Del
• You will be able to send Advertisement status messages to twitter or Microsoft Vine
• Distribution points will support sender like scheduling and throttling
• Distribution point groups will now be dynamic, so if you add a package to a distribution point group, and then add a DP to that group later on, that DP will now receive that package.

As stated in the header some of these unconfirmed ones, might NOT make it into the final product. J

Enjoy.

"Everyone is an expert at something"
Kim Oppalfens - Sms Expert for lack of any other expertise
Windows Server System MVP - SMS