I found out that SCCM 2007 SP2 R3 supports Windows 8 and Server 2012. While this support is not extensive and mainly lacks the possibility to do OSD installations, we can still try out how our software works on Windows 8 x64.
I’ll describe shortly how the installation was done:
The functionality for Windows 8 can be added by installing KB2750782 on the SCCM Site Server. The installation is straightforward and creates the necessary package and program for the deployment of the client upgrade msp. After the installation the package needs to be copied to distribution points and advertised to clients. This was done by creating a collection that queries all the computers that has CcmFramework version less than the new client version and advertising the new package as mandatory deployment to this collection.
I used the following query to select all workstations pending upgrade:
select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_STATE on SMS_G_System_SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_STATE.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_R_System.ClientType = 1 and SMS_G_System_SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_STATE.Name = "CcmFramework" and SMS_G_System_SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_STATE.Version < "4.0.6487.2196"
FEP 2010 support can be added by installing KB2658685.
Additional links:
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog Post on the Win8 Support
http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2012/10/31/update-on-windows-8-and-windows-server-2012-support-in-cm-and-ep.aspx
Project: SCCM 
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