During month of March 2014,Microsoft released first Cumulative Update CU1 for Configmgr 2012 R2 and now ,Microsoft released 2nd Cumulative Update CU2 for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 with lot of fixes,powershell changes and some of them been modified.
This Update (Cumulative Update 2) Replaces Cumulative Update 1 .If you have not installed R2 CU1 yet,you can directly go with Cumulative Update 2.
Download the Cumulative Update 2 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2970177
Description of Windows PowerShell changes in CU2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2962855
About Cumulative Update documentation,creation of collection ,refer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553405.aspx
You can apply this update to:
Central Administrative site
Primary Site(Stand Alone)
Primary Site(Hierarchy)
Secondary Site
SMS Provider
Configuration manager console
Client
Admin Console Version :5.00.7958.1303
Configmgr Client Version:5.00.7958.1303
No Version change to Site System :5.00.7958.1000
So what are issues that are fixed and functionality that is updated in Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) ?
- Administrative Console
- Remote Control
- Mobile Device Management /Intune
- configmgr Client
- Operating System Deployment
- Site Systems
- Application Virtualization
- Content Management
- Windows Powershell
- Additional changes to Ubuntu OS 14.04
- Cloud based Distribution Point
This update do not require Restart after the installation but recommended to close the admin console before you start the installation.
How to determine the installation status of this cumulative update:
This cumulative update changes the following Configuration Manager version numbers and installation properties.
The CULevel value is located under the following registry subkey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Setup
The CULevel value is set to 2 for Cumulative Update 2.
Admin Console Version :5.00.7958.1303
Client Version:5.00.7958.1303
SCCM Configmgr 2012 R2 Cumulative Update 2 –KB2970177 Available for Download is a post from: Eswar Koneti's Blog