What's new in System Center - Service Provider Foundation

There are no new features introduced in Service Provider Foundation 2022.

This article details the new features supported in System Center 2019 - Service Provider Foundation (SPF).

Important

This version of Service Provider Foundation (SPF) has reached the end of support; we recommend you to upgrade to SPF 2022.

No new features are introduced with System Center 1807 - Service Provider Foundation (SPF).

Important

This version of Service Provider Foundation (SPF) has reached the end of support; we recommend you to upgrade to SPF 2022.

This article details the new features supported in System Center 1801 - Service Provider Foundation (SPF).

Support for TLS 1.2

This release of System Center Service Provider Foundation (SPF) contains all the bug fixes shipped until the Update Rollup 2 of SPF 2016, along with added support for TLS 1.2 Protocol. For more information about how to set up, configure, and run your environment to use TLS 1.2, Read this article.

This build should be used for validating the SPF integration scenarios with other System Center components included in the 1801 release.

Support for PowerShell 4.0+

The earlier versions of SPF supported PowerShell V2.0. PowerShell V2.0 didn't support some scripts and users had to apply workarounds. SPF 2019 supports PowerShell V4.0 to resolve this issue.

Support for SQL 2017

SPF 2019 supports SQL 2017 for fresh installation.

Bug fixes

This release of System Center Service Provider Foundation (SPF) contains all the bug fixes shipped until the Update Rollup 2 of SPF 2016.

Note

No features were introduced in SPF 1807.

Note

The following features/feature updates were introduced in SPF 1801.

Support for TLS 1.2

This release of System Center Service Provider Foundation (SPF) contains all the bug fixes shipped until the Update Rollup 2 of SPF 2016, along with added support for TLS 1.2 Protocol. For more information about how to set up, configure, and run your environment to use TLS 1.2, Read this article.

This build should be used for validating the SPF integration scenarios with other System Center components included in the 1801 release.

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