Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for April 2014

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Sep 08, 2018

First published on CloudBlogs on May, 01 2014

The http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682041.aspx has been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: April 1, 2014 at the top of the topic.

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What's New in the Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager since February 2014

Getting Started

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682077.aspx

Added support for Mac OS 10.9 (Mavericks)
Added support for using Windows data deduplication
Added support for Windows Phone 8.1, when enrolled by Windows Intune
Updated the .NET prerequisites for the Out of Band Service Point on Windows Server 2012 or later operating systems.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682085.aspx

Revised the instructions on how to save collections of TechNet pages locally.

Site Administration

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn574730.aspx

Added information about the new Windows Intune extension for Windows Phone 8.1

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712701.aspx

Updated the table about communication in a site that spans forests.
Added information to the same table location for site system roles that must connect directly to SQL Server from external forests. This appears in the table in the section about planning cross-forest communications.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712320.aspx

Clarified that it is not supported to remove the sysadmin rights to SQL Server for the site server computer account and the account used to install Configuration Manager.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh427328.aspx

Added details that cover the ports used for communications from distribution points to management points, and several site system roles that connect directly to SQL Server.

Deploying Clients

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682042.aspx

Clarified that the client prerequisite Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable version 10.0.40219.1 might require a restart when it is installed on client computers.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj591553.aspx

Clarified the download locations for the SP1 and R2 Mac Clients.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj884158.aspx

Added support for Windows Phone 8.1 when using the Windows Phone 8.1 extension.
Added support for Android Samsung KNOX

Deploying Software and Operating Systems

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg699365.aspx

Further clarifications to the information about automatic user device affinity.

Assets and Compliance

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg699372.aspx

Clarified that the threshold for the number of collections that can have incremental updates activated applies to the whole hierarchy.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn554229.aspx

Clarified that if you want to generate the users email address in an email profile by using the users primary SMTP address, this address must exist in the mail attribute in Active Directory. Additionally, Configuration Manager user discovery must be configured to discover the mail attribute from Active Directory (this is configured by default).

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn261200.aspx