We have been waiting a long time, Microsoft released the new System Center 2016 suite nearly a month ago.
A few days after, also Update Rollup 1 has been released.
As I am mainly related to SCDPM, SCSM and SCO, I will show you all the news around these three Products
So lets take a look, what’s new with System Center 2016.
Service Manager 2016
- Time to create and update Work Item is reduced
- Workflows are faster
- Group and queue calculations improved
- Faster SCCM and Active Directory Connector
- Grooming improvements
- Incident Workflow Performance
- New Date dimensions in Data Warehouse cubes
- New (Old) HTML Self Service Portal
- Spell check in Console
- Open Activity in Progress in Task Bar
- Lync 2013 and Skype for Business Support
- SQL Always On
- Support for .Net Framework 4.5.1
Notes
- At the moment, 17.11.2016, Windows 7 is not possible with SM Console.
- More Details: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/sm/get-started/what-s-new-in-service-manager
Data Protection Manager 2016
- Modern Backup Storage
- Resilient Change Tracking (RCT)
- Continued protection during cluster aware updates
- Shielded VM Backups
- Hyper-V with Storage Spaces Direct and ReFS SOFS Cluster
Notes
- More Details: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/dpm/get-started/what-s-new-in-dpm-in-system-center-2016
Orchestrator 2016 / SMA
- SMA supports PowerShell Script
- SMA PowerShell ISE Add-On
- SMA specify the Runbook worker
- SMA supports Powershell 5.0
Notes
- More Details: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/sma/get-started/what-s-new-in-service-management-automation-2016
Take a look here for more Details on other Product’s: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/system-center
Michael Seidl aka Techguy
