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During my session at TechEd Europe I talked about and showed the "POC Jumpstart Kit". This is a smart solution to test out Windows and Office readiness, deployment or just play around With MDT, SCCM, ACT and MAP. It's a large download, but you get a great demo environment ready in no time. A bit like the Hydration Kit, but you don't have to do the installation process. Everything is on one server, and the server is ready to be used on Hyper-V or Virtual PC. There is no Integration Components installed so it's works well on both platforms. Convertion to other platforms should work as well. Among the greates benefits are that you get a "instructions manual" with it. There is 13 lab guides Learning you how to use all the powers installed in the "Jumpstart Kit" There is some "minor" issues to get it to work, but luckily there is workarounds :-)

Service pack 1 will give alot of important stuff to the System Center 2012 family, for instance Windows 8(2012) support for Sccm and Scom. Also backup for de-duplication volumes will be supported in DPM. Maybe the most exciting news for some people will be the support in SCCM for Mac OS and Linux and Unix servers. For more info you can go here:

You can find a real nice survival guide for the entire System Center 2012 package here For sure this will be the greates every release of System Center products, and most of the product comes with the greates upgrade ever. So as an Microsoft infrastructur guy there will be lots of excitement ahead.