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Get Ready for SCCM ConfigMgr Intune New Features

Get Ready for SCCM ConfigMgr Intune New Features

Written By Anoop C Nair
Last Updated August 6, 2024
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Get Ready for SCCM ConfigMgr Intune New Features. Microsoft has announced the latest versions of ConfigMgr 2012 and Intune during TechEd North America 2013.

ConfigMgr 2012 R2 is the newest version of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1.

The official blog post is here. To learn more about the new features available with ConfigMgr 2012 R2 and Windows Intune vNext, watch the following video on channel 9 here.

More details on SCCM 2012 R2 New Features via TechNet. Watch out for the TechEd North America 2013 Videos to learn more about ConfigMgr 2012 R2, Intune’s next version, and MDT updates @channel9 – more videos are here.

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Get Ready for SCCM ConfigMgr Intune New Features

My version of ConfigMgr 2012 R2 updates about new features or enhancements are here : 

Reduced Infra Requirements

  • Obsolete Reason for having a Primary Site – Untrusted Forests (new in R2)
  • Ability to reassign clients between ConfigMgr Sites with a hierarchy
  • Support of restoring SQL Database to a different server during recovery

Content Management and RBA   

  • A new report shows how much a particular DP is used
  • Content replication made less chatty over the WAN
  • Pull DP enhanced for scale and monitoring
  • RBA support for reporting

OSD (OS Deployment)       

  • Enable Pre-stage Content File 
  • Bulk USB media Creation from ISO
  • App install Status in Task Sequence
  • Integrate key MDT ZTI tasks to native ConfigMgr OS deployment

Mobile Device Management

  • Native IOS app for Self-service portal for ConfigMgr + Intune
  • Android Agent and Self-Service Portal  ConfigMgr + Intune

If you don’t have much time to go through the entire video (mentioned above) and are looking for a quick overview, here are some links that would help !!

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Free SCCM Training Part 1 | 17 Hours Of Latest Technical Content | ConfigMgr Lab HTMD Blog (anoopcnair.com)

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Anoop C Nair is Microsoft MVP! He is a Device Management Admin with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His primary focus is Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. He writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc.

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11+ years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

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