Installing microsoft sccm

Right-click the newly created container object and select properties. Click Add to add the users. It will run the command line tool to extend the active directory schema. You can find the output file in the C Drive. Select Role-based or feature-based installation option and continue. Once completed, we can close the wizard and head to the next section. From the downloaded installation files, start the installer present in the x64 folder.

If we have the product key we can enter it, else proceed with the evaluation option. If you have already downloaded the required installation files we can specify the location of the installation media. Else we will have to download them to drive location first. We can choose to install the primary site as a stand-alone site or add it to an existing hierarchy.

Even if we chose the stand alone option we can add it to the hierarchy at a later point. Specify the location for the SQL Server data file and transaction log to be saved and proceed. SCCM supports a single instance of this site system role in a hierarchy and only at the top-level site in the hierarchy. After the installation, you must add Endpoint Protection definition files in your Software Update Point.

We have a complete guide to managing endpoint protection. You can download it from our product page. This is not a mandatory site system but you need both Enrollment Point and Enrollment Proxy Point if you want to enroll legacy mobile devices, Mac computers and to provision Intel AMT-based computers.

Since modern mobile devices are mostly managed using Windows Intune , this post will focus mainly on Mac computer enrollment. When you support mobile devices on the Internet, as a security best practice, install the Enrollment Proxy Point in a perimeter network and the Enrollment Point on the intranet.

If you split the roles between different machine, do the installation section twice, once for the first site system selecting Enrollment Point during role selection and a second time on the other site system selecting Enrollment Proxy Point during role selection. The FSP helps monitor client installation and identify unmanaged clients that cannot communicate with their management point.

This is not a mandatory Site System but we recommend to install a FSP for better client management and monitoring. You can also check if reports that depend on the FSP are populated with data. See the full list of reports that rely on the FSP here. The Management Point is the primary point of contact between Configuration Manager clients and the site server.

Management Points can provide clients with installation prerequisites, configuration details, advertisements and software distribution package source file locations.

Additionally, Management Points receive inventory data, software metering information and state messages from clients. Multiple Management Points are used for load-balancing traffic and for clients to continue receiving their policy after Management Point failure.

Read about how clients choose their Management Point in this Technet article. The Management Point is a site-wide option. By default, when you install a Secondary site, a Management Point is installed on the Secondary site server.

Secondary sites do not support more than one Management Point and this Management Point cannot support mobile devices that are enrolled by Configuration Manager.

See the full Supported Configuration in the following Technet article. On Windows , the following features must be installed before the Management Point Installation:. This role can be installed on a remote machine, the process is the same but the location of the logs is different. Continue through the wizard and reboot the computer at the end of the installation if instructed to do so.

Before configuring the reporting point, some configuration needs to be made on the SQL side. The virtual instance needs to be created for SCCM to connect and store its reports.

If you install SSRS later, then you will have to go back and configure it as a subsequent step. This wizard creates two databases: ReportServer , used to store report definitions and security, and ReportServerTempDB which is used as scratch space when preparing reports.

This step sets up the SSRS web service. The web service is the program that runs in the background that communicates between the web page, which you will set up next, and the databases. This step sets up the Report Manager web site where you will publish reports. Using the simple recovery model improves performance and saves your server hard drive and possibly a large transaction log file. Check for the following logs for reporting point installation status.

Both logs are under the SCCM logs file locations. This Site System is a site-wide option. When using WSUS 3. This has changed with and The problem is that will still cause some trouble with the post-install task. Bonus link : I suggest that you read the excellent article written by Kent Agerlund on how to avoid what he calls the House of Cards. The State Migration Point stores user state data when a computer is migrated to a new operating system.

The State Migration Point is a site-wide option. The State Migration Point can be installed on the site server computer or on a remote computer. It can be co-located on a server that has the distribution point role.

If you have any error in the installation process refer to this post that explains the permission needed for the SMP to install correctly. This package is specified when you add the Capture User State step to your task sequence. This is not a mandatory site system but you need a System Health Validator Point if you plan to use NAP evaluation in your software update deployments. This site system integrates with an existing NAP server in your infrastructure.

The System Health Validator Point is a hierarchy-wide option. In order to enable Network Access Protection on your clients, you must configure your client settings :. From Technet :. Each hierarchy supports a single instance of this role. The site system role can only be installed at the top-tier site of your hierarchy On a Central Administration Site or a stand-alone Primary Site.

If you select to skip the role installation, you can manually add it to SCCM using the following steps. Now that all our site servers are installed, we are now ready to configure the various aspect of SCCM. We will start our configuration with the SCCM boundaries. To use a boundary, you must add the boundary to one or more boundary groups. Boundary groups are collections of boundaries. By using boundary groups, clients on the intranet can find an assigned site and locate content when they have to install software, such as applications, software updates, and operating system images.

A boundary does not enable clients to be managed at the network location. To manage a client, the boundary must be a member of a boundary group. Simple Boundaries on do nothing, they must be added to one or more boundary groups in order to work. Microsoft recommends the following :. When a client requests content, and the client network location belongs to multiple boundary groups, Configuration Manager sends the client a list of all Distribution Points that have the content.

This behavior enables the client to select the nearest server from which to transfer the content or state migration information. In our various SCCM installations, our clients are often confused about this topic. That way, all my clients for my 4 locations will be assigned to my Montreal Primary Site.

For Content Location, we want clients to get their content locally at their respective location. This is a simple but typical scenario. You can have multiples boundaries and Site System in your Boundary Groups if needed.

Client settings are used to configure your deployed agents. This is where you decide any configuration like :. In previous versions of SCCM, client settings were specific to the site. You had 1 client settings that applied to all your hierarchy. In SCCM you can specify clients setting at the collection level.

You can have different settings for specific collections, overlapping settings are set using a priority setting. When you modify the Default Client Settings , the settings are applied to all clients in the hierarchy automatically. You do not need to deploy the Default Client Settings to apply it. By default, it has a priority value This is the lower priority.

All other custom client settings can have a priority value of 1 to which will always override the Default Client Settings. The higher Priority is 1. The Technet documentation is pretty clear and many of the client settings are self-explanatory.

We cannot make any recommendations either as each environment has its own needs and limitations. When you deploy a custom client settings, they override the Default Client Settings. Before you begin, ensure that you created a collection that contains the devices that require these custom client settings.

For our blog post, we will set the Client Policy polling interval to 15 minutes. When you create a new client setting, it automatically takes the next available priority. Beginning with 1 Before deploying it, make sure that your priority is well set for your needs. A higher priority 1 will override any settings with a lower priority.

Now that your client settings are created, you need to deploy it to a collection. This new client settings will apply to only this collection and depending on the priority, will override the settings. Client computers will apply your custom settings when they download their next client policy. You can trigger it manually to speed up the process. We already cover this in a previous article. After you completed your SCCM installation, you certainly want to start managing some systems. This blog article will explain the various discovery methods and will describe how to configure it.

SCCM discovery methods identifies computer and user resources that you can manage by using Configuration Manager. It can also discover the network infrastructure in your environment. Discovery creates a discovery data record DDR for each discovered object and stores this information in the Configuration Manager database. When discovery of a resource is successful, discovery puts information about the resource in a file that is referred to as a discovery data record DDR.

DDRs are in turn processed by site servers and entered into the Configuration Manager database where they are then replicated by database-replication with all sites. The replication makes discovery data available at each site in the hierarchy, regardless of where it was discovered or processed.

You can use discovery information to create custom queries and collections that logically group resources for management tasks such as the assignment of custom client settings and software deployments. Computers must be discovered before you can use client push installation to install the Configuration Manager client on devices.

In simple words, it means that SCCM needs to discover a device before it can manage them. The problem is that if you have a thousand computers, it can be a fastidious process. By using Active Directory System Discovery, all your computers will be shown on the console, from there you can choose to install the client using various SCCM methods. There are 5 Types of Discovery Methods that can be configured.

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