System Center 2012 SP1 - Yes, it's already in the pipeline

Microsoft has recently announced that it System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2 (a bit of a mouthful) is available for download and testing. CTP (Community Technology Preview) means that the product is pretty much pre-beta. SP1 is expected to be released some time towards the end of October and will primarily expand the System Center products to incorporate support for Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012. Server 2012 is not the only focus however and there are numerous upgrades across the entire platform. The most exciting updates are with System Center Operations Manager and Orchestrator, and really, we just can't wait. The CTP2 platform can be downloaded from here