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So, Beta 2 of SCCM shipped to the web earlier today. I was in the keynote presentation at MMS when this was announced, so when better to kick the new releases tyres…

I am installing Beta 2 in our UK datacentre whilst I’m in MMS sessions in Las Vegas, so this will mainly be a quick screenshot runthrough with initial observations. More to come later…

Welcome splashscreen, looks good, plenty of options.

Have to install dot net 3.5 and 4.0 then we can proceed

For now we’re going to use a single site configuration, in live a Central Admin Site would be required:

We still have the familiar update download for external components:

BUT… There’s only 13 of them now (an improvement over the 89 required for CM07:

NB, the updates include SQL Express and dotnet, so it does take a little while…

Hey, the database has lost its default SMS_ prefix:

No more Native Mode, site now supports both HTTP and HTTPS.

This is cool. We can enable/disable the DP and MP rtole for the site during setup and specify the HTTP/S protocol.

A few pre-reqs to fix

Odd final screen… But we begin!

And we’re ready to go. Next we’ll actually try to get it to do something!