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ConfigMgr SP2 is speedy

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People have made fun of ConfigMgr, and every version of SMS before that, for being “slow moving software”.  For those of you who try to deploy software to a machine and then wait for it to actually happen, you know what I mean: it was guaranteed to take two minutes from the time you advertised it to the time the first clients acted on it.

With ConfigMgr SP2, a significant portion of that delay (which was actually happening on the client side, not on the server) was removed.  Now, I can add a new machine into a collection, then go to the machine and initiate a machine policy retrieval cycle and see a popup for new advertisements within a few seconds.  The first time that happened I was a bit startled by the result – surely something must be wrong.  But it wasn’t, the advertisement really was available that quickly.

ConfigMgr SP2 is still available as an RC through https://connect.microsoft.com, so you can try it out in your lab if you want.  It is expected to be released by the end of October.