It's Official - System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 is now Generally Available!

Today Microsoft's Travis Wright announced on the System Center Team blog that System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is generally available. The RTM build bits for SP1 have been available to Technet and MSDN subscribers since before Christmas and two weeks ago you could grab it on the Volume License Center, but nothing was official until General Availability (GA) was announced.

Prior to this anticipated announcement, we've seen the release of a whole load of new SP1 specific downloads for System Center 2012 - I posted on some of them earlier this week here. We can expect to see a lot more of these updates and downloads in the coming weeks as the various product teams release updates to management packs, integration packs, solution accelerators and other tools that will take advantage of all of the new features that SP1 brings with it.

Check out the official announcement here:

Official System Center 2012 SP1 Release Announcement

So what are you waiting for?

If you can't wait to get started with SP1 and want to upgrade your existing System Center 2012 deployments then check out these posts I've written up recently to get you started:

• SCOM 2012 - Installing Service Pack 1 RTM (Part 1)
• SCOM 2012 - Installing Service Pack 1 RTM (Part 2)
• SCOM 2012 - Installing Service Pack 1 RTM (Part 3)
• System Center 2012 Orchestrator (SCORCH) - Installing Service Pack 1 RTM
• DPM 2012 - Installing Service Pack 1 RTM (Part 1)
• DPM 2012 - Installing Service Pack 1 RTM (Part 2)