We are excited to announce that System Center 2025 Update Rollup 1 (UR1) is now generally available! This update brings important enhancements and fixes across the System Center suite, with a focus on security, compatibility, and reliability improvements.
What's New in System Center 2025 UR1
Enhanced Security and Compatibility
TLS v1.3 Support
System Center 2025 now supports TLS v1.3, enhancing security and compliance with the latest encryption standards across all components.
Microsoft SQL Server 2025 Support
All System Center components now support SQL Server 2025, providing improved performance and scalability for your datacenter operations. Existing deployments on SQL Server 2022 can upgrade seamlessly to SQL Server 2025.
Expanded Linux/Unix Platform Support
Operations Manager 2025 UR1 extends monitoring capabilities to the latest enterprise Linux distributions:
- Oracle Linux 10
- Rocky Linux 10
- Alma Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 10
- Debian 13
The Operations Manager Linux Agent now supports OpenSSL 3.x distributions, ensuring compatibility with modern security requirements.
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Issues Fixed
Console content blocking, monitor authoring failures, web console dashboard improvements, S2D workflow WMI errors, topology widget issues, and GB18030-2022 compliance for Chinese character set resolved.
System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM)
New Features
- Hyper-V Select Disk Exclusion:: DPM 2025 UR1 introduces the ability to exclude specific disks from Hyper-V VM backups. Administrators can now selectively omit disk contents from restore points, ensuring that excluded disks aren't overwritten during VM restoration. This provides greater flexibility in managing backup storage and recovery scenarios.
- Exchange Subscription Edition Support:: DPM 2025 UR1 now supports Exchange Subscription Edition as an application-aware backup, expanding protection options for organizations using Microsoft 365 hybrid deployments.
- Enhanced Security and Runtime:: DPM 2025 UR1 requires the latest Visual C++ Redistributable packages (2013, 2015-2022 x64), ensuring the runtime environment is compliant and secure with the latest security updates.
Issues Fixed
- SQL Server force encryption protection, VMware backup transport mode (NBDSSL), and recovery page localization resolved. Includes all SCDPM 2022 UR3 and DPM 2025 RTM fixes.
- GB18030-2022 compliance for Chinese character set included where applicable.
System Center Service Manager (SCSM)
New in Update Rollup 1
- Latest MSOLEDBSQL19 provider support
- Enhanced Orchestrator Integration:: Connects to Orchestrator Web API 2022/2025, with backward compatibility for SCO 2019 Web Service
Issues Fixed
- GB18030-2022 compliance for Chinese character set in all input fields
- Self-Service Portal: Knowledge article images display correctly, Share button no longer cropped for non-English characters, and Review decision error with HTML tags resolved
- MonitoringHost and GroupCalc stability improvements
System Center Orchestrator (SCO)
Issues Fixed
Read Line activity special character handling, Monitor Event Log crashes, Invoke-Runbook credential persistence, and GB18030-2022 compliance for Chinese character set in runbook tester display resolved.
Why Update to UR1?
- Enhanced Security: TLS v1.3 support ensures your infrastructure meets the latest encryption and compliance standards.
- Improved Reliability: Multiple fixes across console operations, monitoring workflows, and backup processes deliver a more stable experience.
- Broader Platform Support: Extended Linux distribution support and SQL Server 2025 compatibility keep your infrastructure current.
- Better Performance: Fixes for memory leaks, workflow failures, and transport mode issues improve overall system performance.
Additional Resources
- SCOM 2025 UR1 (link)
- Service Manager 2025 UR1 (link)
- Orchestrator 2025 UR1 (link)
- DPM 2025 UR1 (link)
Recent Highlights for System Center 2022
In addition to the 2025 Update Rollup, we continue to invest in System Center 2022 with targeted hotfixes and compliance updates to ensure all customers benefit from the latest security, language, and platform improvements:
- Orchestrator 2022 Hotfix: (link) GB18030-2022 compliance for Chinese character set.
- VMM 2022 Console Hotfix: (link) GB18030-2022 compliance for Chinese character set.
- SCOM 2022 Hotfix: (link) GB18030-2022 compliance for Chinese character set, Unix/Linux agent certificate fixes, PowerShell widget security, agent discovery, and web console view fixes.
- VMM 2025 Console Hotfix: (link) GB18030-2022 compliance for Chinese character set.
- SM 2022 Hotfix (upcoming)
What's Next?
Update Rollup 1 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2025 will be released in upcoming months. Stay tuned for announcements!
Thank you for being part of the System Center community. We look forward to supporting your hybrid datacenter management needs!
Microsoft