Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Manual Pre Download SCCM 2012 Prerequisites

The SCCM 2012 manual pre download SCCM 2012 prerequisites command has changed from SCCM 2007. The command to execute the manual download is SetupDL.exe <target directory>.

You can find the SetupDL.exe in the SCCM 2012 installer, SMSSETUP\BIN\X64.

pre download pre-req 

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WSUS Post-deployment Configuration Failed

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Above is the error I got after I installed the WSUS using Powershell command below

Install-WindowsFeature -Name UpdateServices-Services,UpdateServices-DB -IncludeManagementTools

In order to complete the installation, we need to run one more command. Run the Powershell as administrator, navigate to %programfiles%\update services\tools\ and run the command below

wsusutil.exe postinstall CONTENT_DIR=”WSUS Content Directory” SQL_INSTANCE_NAME=SQLSERVERNAME

In my case:
CONTENT_DIR=D:\WSUS
SQL_INSTANCE_NAME=SCCM2012

Below is the result I got

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

SCCM 2012 R2 Upgrade

SCCM 2012 R2 is officially released few days ago. The upgrade path to SCCM 2012 R2 is as following

SCCM 2012 –> SCCM 2012 SP1 –> SCCM 2012 R2

SCCM 2012 R2 requires Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit 8.1, the installer can be downloaded from here. You must uninstall Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit 8.0 before install the new version of Windows ADK. You can refer to the checklist provided by Technet.