Friday, January 4, 2013

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Configuration Manager Component Add-ons and Extensions

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36213

Micrososft has released a new toolkit for SC 2012 CM  SP1

The following tools are available:

  • Client Spy - A tool that helps you troubleshoot issues related to software distribution, inventory, and software metering on System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager clients.
  • Policy Spy - A policy viewer that helps you review and troubleshoot the policy system on System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager clients.
  • Security Configuration Wizard Template for Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager - The Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) is an attack-surface reduction tool for the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. Security Configuration Wizard determines the minimum functionality required for a server's role or roles, and disables functionality that is not required.
  • Send Schedule Tool - A tool used to trigger a schedule on a client or trigger the evaluation of a specified DCM Baseline. You can trigger a schedule either locally or remotely.
  • Power Viewer Tool – A tool to view the status of power management feature on System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager clients.
  • Deployment Monitoring Tool - The Deployment Monitoring Tool is a graphical user interface designed help troubleshoot Applications, Updates, and Baseline deployments on System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager clients. This tool requires System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager or later.
  • Run Metering Summarization Tool - The purpose of this tool is to run the metering summarization task to analyze raw metering data.
  • Role-based Administration Modeling and Auditing Tool – This tool helps administrators to model and audit RBA configurations.
  • Wakeup Spy – This tool shows network traffic and basic information about ConfigMgr wake up client state. This tool requires System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager or later.
  • Content Library Transfer – This tool moves the content library from one drive to another drive.
  • Content Ownership Transfer – This tool re-assigns orphaned packages to an active ConfigMgr site.