Most awaited and First Cumulative Update which was expected to be released in Q2 (as per the news from various forums) but Microsoft decided to release it early and here it is for you.
There has been many DCR’s(Design Change Request) raised by several of Configmgr guys and my self raised support ticket with Microsoft about software center available date after showing old date(1998) ,more info here and Microsoft tried to resolve most of them in Cumulative Update 1.
As this is the first Cumulative Update,it will not replace any other previous Update.
so what are the issues that are fixed and functionality Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) ?
- Administrative console
- Mobile Device Management
- Reporting
- Application Virtualization
- Internet-based clients
- Software Center
- Operating system deployment
- Endpoint Protection
- Application management
- Site systems
- Windows PowerShell http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2932274
- Wake-up proxy
If you look at above ,we can understand ,CU1 fixes issues in almost all areas of Configmgr 2012 R2.
More about issues that are fixed with full description and download Hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2938441/en-us and Powershell issues http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2932274
How do you check if the Cumulative Update has been installed and what changes made to the Admin Console,Client and what else ?
On the Site systems,check the registry key located under the following Subkey
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Setup
The CULevel value is set to 1 for Cumulative Update 1.
The version of Administrative Console will be 5.0.7958.1203
Configmgr 2012 R2 Client Version will be 5.00.7958.1203
Endpoint Protection Client Anti-malware Client Version will be 4.5.0216.0
Started installing the CU1 in the Lab…so keep watching for the updates on how to install etc.
Configmgr 2012 R2 Cumulative Update 1 –KB2938441 Released is a post from: Eswar Koneti's Blog