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Configuring Service Connection Point Role in System Center Configuration Manager 1702 Version

In Today’s guide, we will learn about Installing Service connection point role in Configuration Manager version 1702. Using Service connection point role, we can keep the Configuration Manager up to date with latest updates. Before moving forward, we will understand about the Service Connection Point role in brief.
What is Service Connection Point Role?
A service connection point connects Configuration Manger to Microsoft cloud services and is used for Microsoft Intune subscription and servicing, and to update your Configuration Manager installation.
This will help you in keep your Configuration Manager installation up-to date with latest updates.

To install Service Connection Point Role, follow the below steps.

Open Configuration Manager Console.
From Workspace, Click on Administrations as shown in below screenshot

In Navigation Pane – expand Site Configuration – Right click on Sites – and click on Add Site System Roles to proceed further.
On General Screen, provide or select the appropriate details or leave default as it is if you want and click next to continue.

On Proxy screen, click next to continue.

Select Service Connection Point role and click next to continue.

Select the required option and click next to continue.
Confirm the settings in Summary and click next to continue.

Click close on completion screen to complete the installation.

After installing you can verify the installation details in Sitecomp.log (Records details of service connection point installation) and location of the log is below one.
D:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Logs
After installing Service Connection Point role, to find the latest updates for your configuration manager go to Administration and in navigation pane expand Overview and click on updates and Servicing.
Find the below screen shot for your reference.


To install the update right click on the update and click download as in below screenshot, post download completes install the same to update the configuration manager.


This concludes the installation of Service connection point role in Configuration Manager version 1702

Thank you for reading and Keep learning ☺


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