Updating Configuration Manager 2012 to Service Pack 1

You most probably already know that the “Service Pack 1 Customer Technology Preview 2” for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 has been released a few days ago. If not, here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2012/06/15/announcing-the-availability-of-system-center-2012-sp1-community-technology-preview-2.aspx It’s an early sunday morning, the fiancee is still asleep and I wanted to “quickly” update my virtual ConfigMgr 2012 environment to SP1, and got stuck… New Prerequisites As there are new features (see previous article: http://www.david-obrien.de/?p=369), there are also new prerequisites you need to fulfil before being able to update your site. Go download and install the Windows 8 Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK), this in itself is just under 1MB size but it will download a huge … Continue reading →