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SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 – How to do a fresh install

As you know, Microsoft released System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager SP1 and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP2  (SCCM 2012) in the same time. You can read more here.

This release can be confusing for some people because 2012 SP2 and 2012 R2 SP1 binaries are the same. The same .exe or .iso file.

For exemple, when you want to download and install System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager SP1 (SCCM 2012 R2 SP1) from scratch, there is no more 2012 R2 SP1 iso. Only 2 files can be downloaded:

  • SC2012_SP2_Configmgr_SCEP.exe (762 MB)
  • SC2012_R2_SP1_Configmgr.exe (1,10 MB)
SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 Download

SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 Download

For migrating or for fresh install, the file to mandatory execute is SC2012_SP2_Configmgr_SCEP.exe. We only use SC2012_R2_SP1_Configmgr.exe when we want to activate R2 features.

Let’s see how to do a fresh installation of System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager SP1 (SCCM 2012 R2 SP1)

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SCCM 2012 – Application Catalog prompts Credentials

With System Center Configuration Manager 2012, there is a new  functionality: Application Catalog. Using Application Catalog, you can deploy an application on user collection, and all users can use this web page to install or request an application.

Credentials prompt

To launch the Application Catalog, you can use the existing link on Software Center:

Application Catalog link Software center

Link Software center

Depends on your system configuration, Internet Explorer can prompt for your login / password. Even if you are in your domain.

Application Catalog Prompt

Credential Prompt

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SCCM 2012 – Enable Free Space in Reports

With System Center Configuration Manager, you can retrieve a lot of information about your computers, specially the Hardware Inventory.  And with Reporting Service Point, you can display it easily via a web page.

However, if you would like to display the Free space on a drive, you can do this but it is not enabled.

By default, when you execute the report “Disk information for a specific computer – Logical disks“, you will get a blank information about Free Space:

SCCM Free Space BlankHardware Inventory

To enable this option, you need to change the Hardware Inventory:

  • In the Logical Disk classe, check the Free Space item.
    Hardware Inventory Free Space

After that, wait for the Machine Policy retrieval and at the next Hardware Inventory, you will get the information.

FreeSpace Enabled

 

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You can get more information on Hardware Inventory here

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SCCM 2012 – How to deploy .Net Framework 4 Full

In order to deploy App-V 5 on your clients, the .Net Framework 4 Full is a prerequisite for Windows 7 computers. Windows 8 and 8.1 already include this Framework.

We will see how to deploy .Net Framework 4 Full using Application in System Center Configuration Manager 2012. With this method, you can link it as Dependency on another application and installation can be automatically done. Continue reading

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SCCM 2012 – Detection Method for Update

With Configuration Manager 2012, you have a new feature to deploy your software: Application. To use Application, you need to add a Detection Method. This detection method is based on several criterias and it will check if the application is already installed on the computer.

SCCM included three built-in detections:

  • File/Folder: check if a file exists on the drive. Date modified, Version and Size can be used.
  • Registry: Check if a registry key exists.
  • Windows Installer: Check if a product code is installed.

Moreover, you can user another detection:

  • Custom script: write and execute you own script to detect the application. You can use Powershell, VBScript and JScript.

However, when you want to install a software update using Application, there is no built-in function to detect if the update is installed. You have to use a custom script.
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SCCM 2012 – How to update SCCM Agent

When Microsoft release a new Cumulative Update for ConfigMgr 2012, the SCCM Agent is updated too with a new version. To fix some bugs and improvements, you need to deploy it on all your clients.

To do this, you can choose two solutions:

  • Use the CAB file in the folder [SCCMInstall]\hotfix\KB\SCUP and deploy it with SCUP, that means you are using Software Updates.
  • Deploy the new version with two packages, one for x86 and one for x64, included in the Cumulative Update. With this solution, you can easily update your client with no technical requisite.

We will see how to update clients with the second solution, using package.

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SCCM 2012 – WsusPool crashes

During the migration phase of SCCM 2007 clients to SCCM 2012 infrastructure, I had an issue with the Software Update Point: a lot of computers not reported their Software Update compliance and didn’t evaluated any new software updates.

After a troubleshooting, in the WUAhandler.log on client side, there was this error:

OnSearchComplete - Failed to end search job. Error = 0x80244022.
Scan failed with error = 0x80244022.
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