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The System Center Configuration Manager team would like to announce that the following has been released and available for download:

Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 Release Candidate
This is the official Release Candidate build for Configuration Manager 2007 SP2.

What’s New?
ConfigMgr07 SP2 will include new OS support along with improving on the Intel AMT integration.

New Operating System Support

• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows Server 2008 SP2
• Windows Vista Sp2

*Branch Cache a new Windows and Windows Server 2008 R2 feature for peer to peer content distribution will be support

New Features in Out of Band Management
Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 improves on the Intel AMT integration provided in Service Pack 1. SP2 adds full feature support for computers that have the Intel vPro chip set and AMT firmware versions 4 & 5. In addition to providing feature parity with SP1 and AMT firmware versions 3.2.1, 4.0 and 5.0, the following new features are supported:

Wireless Management (mobile only)

• Up to eight (8) wireless profiles per out of band service point
• Profiles support SSID, WAP2-Enterprise or WAP-Enterprise security, AES or TKIP encryption, client authentication options of EAP-TLS or EAP-TTLS/MSCHAPv2 or PEAPv0/EAP-MSCHAPv2
• Versions of AMT earlier than 3.2.1 are supported with the Intel translator

Authenticated Wired 802.1x Management

• Single profile
• Profile supports client authentication options of EAP-TLS or EAP-TTLS/MSCHAPv2 or PEAPv0/EAP-MSCHAPv2
• Versions of AMT earlier than 3.2.1 are supported with the Intel translator

Audit Logging

• Supported on AMT versions 4 and 5
• Select which out of band management features to audit (critical events not supported)
• Enable or disable audit logging per computer after provisioning
• View, clear, and export to file the audit log entries by using the out of band management console

Power State Configuration

• Enable configuration of the power settings to specify whether out of band management activity is supported when the host is on (S0), host is on (S0) or in standby (S3), or always on (S0-S5)

Data Storage

• Save up to 4096 bytes in ASCII characters in the AMT data storage of each computer
• View and save to the data store by using the out of band management console

Additional information:

• Hotfixes included in SP2 article can be found on the primary Configuration Manager MSConnect page at https://connect.microsoft.com/content/content.aspx?ContentID=12645&SiteID=16.
• Deployment guides for BranchCache and the new AMT features are available in the download section.
• The new OpsMgr07 R2 ConfigMgr07 Management Pack can also be downloaded, this supports 64bit OpsMgr client agents.
• Please review the Release Notes before performing any installation and upgrade.

Feedback and Support:

• All registered Sp2 Open Beta users can submit bugs, design change requests (DCR’s), and other feedback. See the help link on the ConfigMgr MSConnect homepage for more instructions.
• Newsgroups are a great way to post questions and receive general support question answers.

If you experience any issues with the download or the MSConnect site please contact, sccmtap@microsoft.com

Registration:

1. Go to http://connect.microsoft.com
2. Login with a Windows Live ID (http://www.passport.net if you don’t have one already)
3. Click on CONNECTION DIRECTORY
4. Search for System Center Configuration Manager 2007
5. Click on APPLY NOW next to “Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 Open Beta Program”