Linux & UNIX Version 5.3 (Power) Version 6.1 (Power) Version 7.1 (Power) AIX Version 11iv2 (PA-RISC/IA64) Version 11iv3 (PA-RISC/IA64) HP-UX Version 4 (x86/x64) Version 5 (x86/x64) Version 6 (x86/x64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 9 (SPARC) Version 10 (SPARC/x86) Version 11 (SPARC/x86) Solaris Version 9 (x86) Version 10 SP1 (x86/x64) Version 11 (x86/x64) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Supported OS’s across both: Configuration Manager Operations Manager Newer versions of OS will be supported within 180 days of release Old versions supported as long as vendor provides support Broader Linux distro support being evaluated for future releases Hardware Inventory Software Deployment Using the Package and Program model Deploy/patch software, deploy OS patches and run maintenance scripts that target a collection Consolidated reports

This hierarchy currently contains sites that have not been upgraded to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1. Objects of this type cannot be created until all primary sites have been upgraded.

Hierarchy Expansion: Overview Central Administration Site Primary Site Secondary Site Central Administration Site More than 100K clients in hierarchy. So essentially you need a central to add multiple primaries and to scale out beyond 100K clients Any other time you might need more than one primary site in hierarchy Network/Security requirements Multiple Network Access Accounts Distribution Point

ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Migrate -Facilitate moving objects from test environment to production environment -Help merging two ConfigMgr 2012 hierarchies CAS Primary Site CAS Primary Site

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