What’s new in ConfigMgr SP1?

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Overview of what’s new in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

This is a short overview of what I found new in ConfigMgr SP1 update:

I am able to update my pre-release SP1 to RTM (Thanks @pvanderwoude)
- although I doubt MS will support that for anyone but TAP customers
There are 56 prerequisites for this new release
- SQL Express 2012
- SQL Native Client 2012
- Silverlight 5
- all in all 624MB of data
SQL Server 2012 officially supported for site database
Deployment of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 supported
support for Win8 apps
WinPE 4.0 is being used for boot images
Powershell is now available in WinPE phase
Bitlocker
- much faster encryption due to only encrypting what’s written on disk
- preprovisioning in WinPE
Powershell cmdlets for Site Server (see my previous blog ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Powershell)