System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Service Pack 1 Features
The Mobile Information Worker Product team within Microsoft have posted information detailing the new features of SCMDM SP1 on their blog. At a high level the new features are as follows:
– Multiple-instance: allows large organizations with distributed IT control points to independently manage devices within the area of their control. This applies to instances within a single forest. Today when SCMDM is deployed at a company, that deployment will manage all devices in an organization; there is no ability to have multiple SCMDM installation. With SP1, if your company has offices or divisions that have their own IT departments, these offices will be able to install an instance of MDM that does allows devices to managed separately from other offices in the company.
– PIN reset. This feature is the same as what is currently available with Exchange 2007. It will allow device PIN reset either by the SCMDM administrator for a specific device or self-service via the MDM Self-Service portal. This feature requires an update to the client as well. Consequently, client support for this feature will be made available as a downloadable CAB file for WM 6.1 phones.
– Windows Server 2008 support. Support for Windows Server 2008 including Domain functional mode, Forest functional mode. If you are running AD with functional levels raised to WinServer 2008, MDM SP1 will support that architecture. In addition, Hyper-V (virtualization) will be supported for using hosted Windows Server 2003 for testing purposes.
– Performance and scalability enhancement. The release criteria for SP1 is to increase system coverage to 40,000 users in a single instance versus the 30,000 user single instance limitation in MDM 2008. If you require large scale, but want to keep your deployment within a single instance without acquiring additional hardware, this will be very helpful.
To read more visit https://blogs.technet.com/scmdm/archive/2008/09/02/what-s-coming-in-scmdm-sp1.aspx