This is continues to my Previous post (Part 1) that we saw yesterday on how to install Configmgr 2012 R2 CU1 on Primary Site. In this post,we will see how to install CU1 on Site Server s Secondary Sites,Admin Console and Clients. Installation of CU1 on secondary Site can be done in 2 ways depends on hierarchy.If you have more number of secondary sites,prefer to go with software distribution method OR if you have limited say 1 or 2 ,prefer to CU manually on the secondary Site . In this blog post,I will talk through the installation of CU using…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Configmgr 2012 R2 Cumulative Update 1 released today(Mar 28,2014), to know more about this update,refer http://eskonr.com/2014/03/configmgr-2012-r2-cumulative-update-cu1-released/ Installation of any Cumulative Update is straight forward process (so Far) by clicking Next,Next ,Next and is simple to consider but you should be cautious before doing the upgrade like taking up the backup of Configmgr and should be recent one,make sure your site is running in good condition. My Lab Hierarchy Consists of 1 Primary,1 Secondary and 2 Distribution points with several clients. all servers running on windows server 2012 OS. What is the Hierarchy to install the Update ? You should come…
Most awaited and First SCCM Configmgr 2012 R2 Cumulative Update 1 KB2938441 which was expected to be released in Q2 (as per the news from various forums) but Microsoft decided to release it early and here it is for you. There has been many DCR’s(Design Change Request) raised by several of Configmgr guys and my self raised support ticket with Microsoft about software center available date after showing old date(1998) ,more info here and Microsoft tried to resolve most of them in Cumulative Update 1. As this is the first Cumulative Update,it will not replace any other previous Update. so…
Content Prestage in Configmgr 2012 is a new/Updated feature from its previous Version Configmgr 2007(Preloading).Content Prestaging is mainly used for the sites which has Slow or costly network connectivity. When you are creating new site Distribution Point at remote location with Slow connectivity,you cannot distribute the missing packages due to bandwidth constraints.Configmgr 2012 allows you to create Prestage Content means,You can Export the content from One DP (Note: Only DPs under this particular Site could be Primary or Secondary will be listed but not from Other sites) ,copy to Disk,ship it and then import to the newly configured DP. To…
Few days back,I was working on Client health remediation issues.for this activity,I created some cool SSRS reports based on client health statistics,you can find them on the below link: http://eskonr.com/2014/05/sccm-configmgr-2012-ssrs-dashboard-client-health-summary-report/ With above report,found that ,Count of missing clients very few hundred which is 2% from total --not bad but still need to install the client on missing computers using different client installation methods like client push,logon script etc . Since i have few hundred computers,i would prefer to go with client push installation using clientpushgenerator tool. while troubleshooting the client installation ,I found many clients appearing twice --duplicate records,obsolete ,One…
Configmgr 2012 allow admins to specify the Client Settings at collection level to control the behavior and functionality of the clients. You can create as many number of Custom Client Device/User settings (9999) which you can apply onto collections(Device/User). What happens if client is member of multiple collections that have client settings ? All the Custom Client settings that you create are chosen with the priority. Higher the priority(1) will take over the settings with lower priority(10000). If you are going to have multiple client agent settings,focus attention else you will see undesired results. By Default,Configmgr will Configure default client…
If you are using User Device Affinity--associating a user with one or more specified devices for application deployment to make sure the application install on all devices that are associated with that user,it is necessary to identify the computers which do not have primary User Defined.More about User Define Affinity http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg699365.aspx. Create collection using below WQL query for list of computers with Primary Device is NULL.(Make sure you limit the collection to computers with Client installed and Active) else you will get all computers who do not have sccm client installed . WQL query uses wmi class (SMS_UserMachineRelationship) which store…
Recently there was a question asked in the forum about 'How to get list of applications ,packages assigned to specific collection with its deployment settings like user experience ,Deployment action like install or uninstall etc' . If you are in need of identifying the list of applications or packages deployed to specific collection with its deployment properties, this post is for you. To find list of applications with deployment type properties ,i looked at the default reports ,there isn't it any with this requirement,so started looking at my SCCM Configmgr SQL views documentation to find out the relevant SQL views…