Updated: May 31, 2023 (June 26, 2022)

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System Center 2019 UR4 Supports New Guests, No New Hosts

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  • System Center 2019 now supports Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11 as guest OSs, enabling organizations to upgrade VMs to these OSs without upgrading System Center.
  • Customers who want Windows Server 2022 as a host OS, rather than a guest, will still have to upgrade to System Center 2022.

System Center 2019 Update Rollup 4 (UR4) became generally available in June 2022. The System Center software suite supports numerous management and monitoring tasks focused on server and data-center management. Although UR4 adds support for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 guest VMs, broader host OS support and other capabilities remain exclusive to System Center 2022 and are unlikely to be backported to System Center 2019.

Update Expands OS Support for Guest VMs

In addition to bug fixes, System Center 2019 UR4 provides the following new capabilities:

Operations Manager adds support for monitoring Windows 11, enables support for the .NET Framework 4.8 in Operations Manager, and receives UI improvements to the Web console including additional sort options and new columns in several views.

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