August 23, 2016
What’s new in Configuration Manager 1608 TP
Yesterday the Configuration Manager 1608 technical preview was released and just love the fact that we get a better end user experience in Software Center, I just had to write this.
One of the new features in Software Center is that we can both see if there are new items and which item is new.
And also we have Application request in Software Center and not in the Application Catalog.
Awesome new feature for the end users!
More new features are, from the blog post: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/08/22/update-1608-for-configuration-manager-technical-preview-available-now/
- Improvements to Asset Intelligence: We have added a field to the properties for inventoried software that lets you set a parent and child relationship with other software. In the Inventoried Software list, you can view the parent of any software and also hide all child software.
- Improvements to the Prepare ConfigMgr Client for Capture task sequence step: The Prepare ConfigMgr Client step will now completely remove the Configuration Manager client, instead of only removing key information. When the task sequence deploys the captured operating system image, it will install a new Configuration Manager client each time.
- Keyboard Translation for Remote Control: By default in a remote control session, characters typed on the viewer’s keyboard are sent to the controlled device instead of the keys – whether or not their keyboard layouts match. This behavior may be turned off in the Remote Control viewer Action menu.
Let’s focus on Remote Control, it is great that Remote Control gets some developer love, one thing I would like to see is the possibility to control the startup of the Remote Control Service on all clients from Automatic(Delayed) to Automatic using a Client Setting.
I created a user voice item for it so if you feel the same way, please vote for it here: https://configurationmanager.uservoice.com/forums/300492-ideas/suggestions/15756271-remote-tools-client-setting-to-change-client-ser
The documentation of what is new in Configuration Manager 1608 Technical preview can be found here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt761995.aspx
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The icons are still super ugly. Definitely not ready for primetime!
Hi Jorgen,
First, thanks for your great blog it’s just great and saved my life already a few times !
I did not try myself this new 1608 TP and then I’ve a question.
Do you know if it will be possible to have “device deployed applications” with the possibility to check the box “Requires an Administrator Approval” like it’s the case with “user deployed applications” ?
Thank you !
Matt.