The focus for the release of SMS 2003 SP1 was raising the bar in security, reliability and scalability established by SMS 2003 at RTM, enable newly supported scenarios, and enable new products in the market such as the upcoming SMS Feature Packs and System Center.
To deliver on this vision, investments were made in the following areas in SMS 2003 SP1:
- Security Improvements
- Mutual authentication
- Client to server encryption
- Performance Improvements
- 2X improvement processing of hardware inventory (backend) over SMS 2003 RTM
- Hardware inventory completes (client scan) in 20% of time required by SMS 2003 RTM
- Multi-threaded content distribution allows us to scale to many more content distribution points and replicate content much faster
- Reliability Improvements
- Watson support for SMS server roles
- New Supported Platforms
- Support for Virtual PC and Virtual Server
- Support for XPSP2
- Enabling partners through SDK to extend SMS to non-Windows platforms
- Support for managing 64 bit platforms (both x64 and IA64)
- New Supported Configurations
- Support for managing devices that are not members of a domain (workgroup)
- Ability to customize HTTP port used by SMS
- Enhanced support for critical patch distribution scenario
Posted
Sep 14 2004, 10:00 AM
by
lduncan