System Center 2012 was released in April 2012, well before Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 were released. As a consequence, these Operating Systems weren't supported. This functionality was slated for System Center 2012 with ServicePack 1, among other new exciting new functionality. This makes ServicePack 1 for System Center 2012 not just an ordinary ServicePack.

Per December 20, 2012, TechNet and MSDN subscribers can download System Center 2012 with ServicePack 1 in the following packages:

• System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager with SP1
  (x64, ISO file, 1320 MB)
• System Center 2012 – Data Protection Manager with SP1
  (x64, ISO file, 4721 MB)
• System Center 2012 – Configuration Manager and Endpoint Protection with SP1
  (x86 and x64, ISO file, 904 MB)
• System Center 2012 – Service Manager with SP1
  (x64, ISO file, 404 MB)
• System Center 2012 – Operations Manager with SP1
  (x86 and x64, ISO file, 1059 MB)
• System Center 2012 – Orchestrator with SP1
  (x86, ISO file, 157 MB)
• System Center 2012 – App Controller with SP1
  (x64, ISO file, 77 MB)

All these downloads include the Chinese-Simplified, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, and Spanish languages, except for Configuration Manager and Endpoint Protection (this download doesn’t include the Italian, Portuguese-Brazil and Spanish language) and both Operations Manager and Orchestrator (English only).

What’s New

Service Pack 1 for System Center 2012 is not just a maintenance release, it also includes a lot of new features:

• What’s New in System Center 2012 – App Controller SP1
• What’s New in System Center 2012 – Configuration Manager SP1
• What’s New in System Center 2012 – Data Protection Manager SP1
• What’s New in System Center 2012 – Operations Manager SP1
• What’s New in System Center 2012 – Orchestrator SP1
• What’s New in System Center 2012 – Service Manager SP1
• What’s New in System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) SP1

Further reading

Deploying Windows 8? Not with ConfigMgr 2007…
System Center 2012 SP1 RTM download available on TechNet and MSDN
What’s new in System Center Service Pack 1
Microsoft finalizes System Center 2012 Service Pack 1
System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 RTM & Download
System Center 2012 SP1 Hits RTM, Arriving 'Early January'
System Center 2012 SP1 is RTM and partly available
Hyper-V 3.0 tools won't emerge until System Center 2012 SP1
System Center 2012 w/SP1 is now available to download – RTM