Now available: Cumulative Update 1 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 clients for Linux/UNIX

~ John Thekkethala | Senior Program Manager

I am happy to announce that we have released Cumulative Update 1 to the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 clients for Linux/UNIX.

This release delivers the following additional capabilities/features to the System Center 2012 SP1 release.

• Support for managing additional operating systems: AIX, HP-UX, Solaris 11, CentOS, Debian, Oracle Linux and Ubuntu.
• Open Management Infrastructure CIM server (OMI Version 1.0.6.5) that enables customers to create their own inventory providers.
• A simplified common Universal Agent that supports a broad set of Linux distributions.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

The release is posted on the Download Center here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36212

To find more details on what’s new in this release go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682132.aspx#BKMK_LinixUNIX and look under the subsection titled What’s New in Cumulative Update 1 for the Client for Linux and UNIX

A complete list of supported Linux and UNIX distributions and the installation packages can be found in Supported Configurations for Configuration Manager.  Look under the subsection titled Computer Client Requirements \ Client Requirements for Linux and UNIX Servers \ Supported Distributions of Linux and UNIX.

John Thekkethala| Senior Program Manager | Microsoft

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