In this guide, I am going to demonstrate how to use System Center Configuration Manager SCCM to deploy, update, and lockdown the BIOS on Dell systems using. Windows Installer Resources for System Administrators Deployable Packages. This section lists wrappers and repackaged versions of legacy setups. Open Source MSI. In this post we will see the ways for deploying applications using SCCM 2012. Before we start deploying applications, lets see whats new. WDS vs WAIK vs MDT vs SCCM Quick Intro. I see a lot of talk with all these different deployment tools but Im finding it tricky to figure out how they relate to one another, which ones supercede others and just in general how they work and what they do. Now Ive been in IT for about 1. I feel Ive picked up a hell of a lot in that time Im still relatively green so forgive me for any inaccuracies I make in this and subsequent posts. Also the more info you guys can give the better for meWDS, WAIK, MDT and SCCMCould someone give me a brief run down on each of these and how they work together. What each one does and whether any of them supercede the others For example do you still need WDS if you have SCCM set up SPECIFICS I WANT TO DOIf you upgraded your ConfigMgr 1702 or earlier environment to Configmgr 1706 and in the status messages after the upgrade you get Microsoft SQL Server reported SQL. Anyway Ill tell you where we were and where we are now and perhaps you guys could give me an idea on where to move to next. GHOST So in ye olden days we had an old ghost cast server. Youd F1. 2 and PXE boot into RIS on the same server, select the relevant GHOST boot image with the correct DOS Drivers for the network card then the reset was just the standard connecting to the Ghost Cast Server and capturing deploying an image. This worked ok for a while but I decided we should move away from GHOST because it was getting harder to find DOS drivers that worked for newer machines and this led to alot of issues with clients dropping out mid imaging not being able to connect in the first place. WDSSo I spend a week or so reading up on WDS. Installed it on a blank 2. K8. R2 server and configured it. All in all it was pretty easy and took about two hours to get it up and running and capturing images. It seems to me that WDS is pretty much the same as GHOST. Create a base image. PXE boot to the network and then capture it so you can deploy it later on. Immediately though I found it loads better than the previous GHOST server because we had no issues connecting to the WDS server well apart from one set of laptops but injecting the drivers into the boot image was easy to fix. Sccm Force Software Inventory Update' title='Sccm Force Software Inventory Update' />It was also a lot quicker to capture and deploy and we had no issues with clients dropping out half way through. Also learning to use Sysprep has enabled me to learn about automating certain things with the newly imaged machines such as auto joining the domain we still put the computer name in manually using minisetup. How to force Full Hardware Inventory on SCCM Clients,Force Full Hardware Inventory on SCCM Clients,SCCM hardware inventory,hardware inventory. SCCM 2012 R2 Environment Preparation Requirements SQL Server supported configuration, AD schema, preparation. Iqura Technologies provides software services geared towards delivering quality business solutions to the Indian and International markets. We specialize in. Sccm Force Software Inventory Update' title='Sccm Force Software Inventory Update' />Can you believe in the olden days we didnt use Sysprep and instead manually connected all imaged computers to the domain and run NEWSID Madness I still have nightmares from last summer when I had to image 6. NEWSID Joining The Domain Manually. WHERE DO I WANT TO GO NEXT So this is all working out pretty awesome. A lot better than the old Ghost way we did things however its become obvious that we now have about 8 or 9 different models of PC and Laptops with pretty much exactly the same image and the only difference being they have different hardware and therefore need differing drivers. But it seems stupid having so many images for such a minor change. Ive heard about the ability to create hardware independent images. I was wondering how do I go about doing this and what tools do I need Also something minor but was wondering how to configure naming the computers once theyve been imaged. So far the only real intervention we have from starting to image a machine to it being ready is to put in the machine name. What are the best ways to automate naming the computers so the correct computer gets the correct name when its imaged AND WHERE I WANT TO BE AFTER THIS The next big issue we have is regarding things like Flash and Patches for programs like Seriff and whatnot. At the moment end users have to bring there laptops to us and we log them off, log on as admin and update it for them. This is a pain in the arse. Believe there is a way to use some of the deployment tools to push out updates to client computers but I have no idea how to do it and again what technologies I need to use. Can anyone help Also Im interested in making things a bit more Zero Touch. Possibly pushing out deployments from the server instead of going round the rooms. FINWhoa. that is one hell of TL DR right there. Hope some of you guys will be kind enough to give me some help with this I know I can probably find all this on my own however I really think asking on here is going to give me the direct answers to the questions I have and hopefully some of the more experienced on here can give me some pointers and examples of how they set things up. I find it easier to see how other people have done things and working out how that works opposed to reading through a 4. SCCM 1. 51. 1 to SCCM 1. Upgrade guide. The first upgrade for SCCM Current Branch 1. This post is a complete step by step SCCM 1. If youre looking for a complete SCCM 1. Installing SCCM upgrades is very important to your infrastructure. It adds new feature and fixes lots of issues, which some of them are important. New Update and Servicing. Since SCCM 1. 51. Microsoft now release update pack differently than services packs and cumulative updates. Downloading and updating is made directly from the console. If you need to make a new SCCM installation, you cant install SCCM 1. You need to install SCCM 1. SCCM 1. 60. 2 from the console. SCCM 1. 51. 1 is still the baseline version if youre starting from scratch. The update process seem quite easy but dont get confused. Yes, its easy to apply, but these updates needs to be planned as much as you planned cumulative updates and service pack in the past. During the installation process all SCCM services including SMSExecutive service are stoppedAs stated on the Configuration Manager Team blog,  the new servicing methods is designed to support the much faster pace of updates for Windows 1. Microsoft Intune. You can expect 3 or 4 of these updates per year. They also mentioned that they plan to support each versionupdate for 1. This basically means that you can skip SCCM 1. SCCM 1. 60. 6 fictional name at release. The important thing to remember is to update before the 1. New features and fixes. This update contains new features and applies the latest KBfixes to fix known bugs. Client Online Status. You can now view the online status of devices in Assets and Compliance. New icons indicate the status of a device as online or offline. Support for SQL Server Always. On Availability Groups. Configuration Manager now supports using SQL Server Always. On Availability Groups to host the site database. Windows 1. 0 Device Health Attestation Reporting. You can now view the status of Windows 1. Device Health Attestation in the Configuration Manager console to ensure that the client computers have a trustworthy BIOS, TPM, and boot software. Office 3. 65 Update Management. You can now natively manage Office 3. Configuration Manager Software Update Management SUM workflow. You can manage Office 3. Microsoft Update. New Antimalware Policy Settings. New antimalware settings that can now be configured include protection against potentially unwanted applications, user control of automatic sample submission, and scanning of network drives during a full scan. Our favorite feature is Client Online Status which will greatly help operational tasks. A computer is considered online if it is connected to its assigned management point. To indicate that the computer is online, the client sends ping like messages to the management point. If the management point doesnt receive a message after 5 minutes, the client is considered offline. Before you begin SCCM 1. Upgrade Guide. Downloading and installing this update is done entirely from the console. Theres no download link, the update will appear in your console. If youre running a multi tier hierarchy, start at the top level site in the hierarchy. After the top level site upgrades, you can begin the upgrade of each child site. Complete the upgrade of each site before you begin to upgrade the next site. Until all sites in your hierarchy are upgraded, your hierarchy operates in a mixed version mode. Before applying this update, We strongly recommend that you go through the upgrade check list provided on Technet. In this post, well be updating a standalone Primary Site Server, console and clients. Before installing, check if your site is ready for the update Open the SCCM console. Go to Administration Cloud Services Updates and Servicing. In the State column, ensure that the update is Available. If youre not seeing the update, Microsoft has provided a Power. Shell script to force the download. If youre not in a hurry, just wait and it should appear in the next following days. Refer to Dmpdownloader. The update files gets saved in the Easy. Setup. Payload folder in the Configuration Manger setup folder. SCCM 1. 60. 2 upgrade guide. Step 1 SCCM 1. 60. Prerequisite check. Before launching the update, we recommend to launch the prerequisite check Open the SCCM console. Go to Administration Cloud Services Updates and Servicing. Right click the Configuration Manager 1. Run prerequisite check. Nothing will happen, the prerequisite check runs in the background. All menu options will be grayed out during the check. The one way to see progress is by viewing C Config. Field Of Fire Full Game. Mgr. Prereq. log. Stranglehold Pc Game Full Version. You can also monitor prerequisite check by going to Monitoring Site Servicing Status, right click your Update Name and select Show Status. When completed the State column will show Prerequisite check passed. Step 2 Launching the SCCM 1. We are now ready to launch the SCCM 1. Right click the Configuration Manager 1. Install Update Pack. On the General tab, click Next. On the Features tab, select the features you want to update. If you dont select one of the feature now and want to enable it later, youll be able to so by using the console in Administration  Cloud Services Updates and Servicing Features. In the Client Update Options, select the desired option for your client update. This new feature allows to update only clients member of a specific collection. Refer to the Technet article for more details. On the License Terms tab, accept the licence terms and click Next. On the Summary tab, review your choices and click Next. On the Completion tab, close the wizard. The whole process took a minute but the installation is not over, it has been initiated. For now on, no more GUI, you need to use log files to monitor the installation. During installation, the State column changes to Installing. You can  monitor installation by going to Monitoring Site Servicing Status, right click your Update Name and select Show Status or you can follow detailed installation progress in SCCM Installation DirectoryLogsCMUpdate. When completed, youll notice the message There are no pending update package to be processed. Refresh the Updates and Servicing node, the State column will be Installed. Updating the consoles. The console now has an auto update feature. At console opening, if you are not running the latest version, you will receive a warning and the update will start automatically. Since all updates operations were initiated from the console, we didnt close it during the process. We received a warning message when clicking certain objects. You will have the same message when opening a new console. Click OK,  console update will starts automatically. Wait for the process to complete. You can follow the progress in C Config. Mgr. Admin. UISetup. C Config. Mgr. Admin. UISetup. Verbose. Once completed, the console will open and youll be running the latest version. Verification. Consoles. After setup is completed, verify the build number of the console. If the console upgrade was successful, the build number will be 5. You can also notice that Version 1. Servers. Go to Administration Site Configuration Sites. Right click your site and select Properties. Verify the Version and Build number. Clients. The client version will be updated to 5. SCCM 1. 60. 2 client Package distribution. Youll see that 2 client update packages are created Navigate to Software Library Application Management Packages. Select both package and initiate a Distribute Content to your distribution points.