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title: "System Center 1801 preview release"
description: "System Center 1801 preview release. Support for Windows Server version 1709: Support for the latest version of Windows Server with host monitoring, host management, configuration of encrypted SDN virtual network, Shielded Linux VMs on Hyper-V"
date: 2017-11-08
updated: 2025-01-07
author: Martin Ehrnst
section: operationsmanager
categories: [Operations Manager]
tags: [OpsMgr, SCDPM, SCOM, SCVMM, SysCtr]
url: "https://adatum.no/operationsmanager/system-center-1801-preview-release/"
canonicalUrl: "https://adatum.no/operationsmanager/system-center-1801-preview-release"
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**Update February 8 2018:**
Microsoft released system Center 1801 today. Read more here [https://adatum.no/operationsmanager/scom-1801-released](https://adatum.no/operationsmanager/scom-1801-released)

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Today, [Microsoft annouced ](https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2017/11/08/preview-of-first-system-center-semi-annual-channel-release-now-available/)that a preview of the next System Center realease (1801) is [available for download](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-system-center-technical-preview). This is a preview of the upcoming version, scheduled for Q1 2018. The key focus points for 1801 was [announced at Ignite](https://adatum.no/operationsmanager/oms-and-scom-announcements-from-ignite-2017) and includes.

- **Support for Windows Server version 1709:** Support for the latest version of Windows Server with host monitoring, host management, configuration of encrypted SDN virtual network, Shielded Linux VMs on Hyper-V management, and backup capabilities.
- **Support for additional Windows Server 2016 features in Virtual Machine Manager:** Now customers can setup nested virtualization, software load balancer configuration, Storage QoS configuration and policy settings, and migrate VMware UEFI VM to Hyper-V VM.
- **Linux monitoring in Operations Manager:** Customers can now realize granular log file monitoring in Linux using a customizable FluentD-based Linux agent. Linux log file monitoring is now at par with that of Windows Server.
- **Improved web console experience in Operations Manager:** The SCOM web console has been moved completely to HTML5 with support for all browsers, out-of-the-box widgets, and widget customization.
- **Updates and recommendations for third-party Management Packs:** We released the MP Updates and Recommendations feature in System Center 2016. This has been expanded now to support the discovery and update of third-party MPs.
- **Faster, cost-effective VMware backup:** Using our Modern Backup Storage technology in Data Protection Manager, customers can backup VMware VMs faster and cut storage costs by up to 50%.
- In Operations Manager:
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Improvements to Linux MPs
- Linux Kerberos support
- Improvements to Windows Server OS MP
- One setup for all languages
- Improved UI responsiveness with large number MPs
- Visual Studio 2017 support in VSAE

- In Virtual Machine Manager:
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SLB Guest cluster floating IP support
- Storage QoS at VMM Cloud
- Storage QoS extended to SAN storage
- Remote to VMs in Enhanced Session mode
- Seamless update of non-domain host agent
- Support for fallback HGS for Shielded VM
- Host Refresher made up to 10X faster

Read the full announcement of the [preview here](https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2017/11/08/preview-of-first-system-center-semi-annual-channel-release-now-available/), and the [new release cadence](https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2017/06/15/frequent-continuous-releases-coming-for-system-center/) for more information.
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