In today’s topic, we will learn about installing Standalone primary site in SCCM 2012 R2.
Before proceeding further, we will go through brief about the Primary site.
Primary Site:
Primary Sites supports clients up to 1,00,000 and each primary site can support up to 10 MP’s and up to 250 Secondary sites. A primary site stores Configuration Manager 2012 data for itself and all the secondary sites beneath it in a SQL Server database. This is called the Configuration Manager 2012 site database. Primary sites have an administrative tool called the Configuration Manager 2012 console that enables the Configuration Manager 2012 administrator to directly manage the site. Primary sites are child sites of the Central Administration Site.
Primary Site:
Primary Sites supports clients up to 1,00,000 and each primary site can support up to 10 MP’s and up to 250 Secondary sites. A primary site stores Configuration Manager 2012 data for itself and all the secondary sites beneath it in a SQL Server database. This is called the Configuration Manager 2012 site database. Primary sites have an administrative tool called the Configuration Manager 2012 console that enables the Configuration Manager 2012 administrator to directly manage the site. Primary sites are child sites of the Central Administration Site.
The Primary Sites within the SCCM 2012 R2 Hierarchy are the sites responsible for managing clients and servers.
Primary sites in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 have the following differences from primary sites in Configuration Manager 2007:
- A primary site supports only a central administration site as a parent site.
- Additional primary sites allow the hierarchy to support more clients.
- Cannot be added below other primary sites.
- No longer used as a boundary for client agent settings or security.
- Participates in database replication.
Within the Accenture SCCM 2012 R2 Hierarchy the Primary Sites will be the primary point of administration for the business units.
Below Pre-requisites should be in place to proceed further with the installation of Primary site.
- Web Server (IIS) with below sub features
- Common HTTP Features – Default Document, Static Content.
- Application Development – ASP.NET 3.5, .NET Extensibility 3.5, ASP.NET 4.5, .NET Extensibility 4.5, ISAPI extensions.
- Security – Windows Authentication.
- IIS 6 Management Compatibility – IIS Management Console, IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility, IIS 6 WMI Compatibility, IIS Management Scripts and Tools.
- .Net Framework 3.5 Features [Install all sub features]
- .Net Framework 4.5 Features [Install all sub features]
- WSUS
- Remote differential compression
- BITS
Click on install to begin the installation of CAS
Click Next to continue.
Click Next to continue.
To install Central Administration Site, select the circle to Install a Configuration Manager Primary Site.
As this is a Lab I am selecting
Accept the license terms and click next to continue.
Accept the license terms and click next to continue.
Accept the license terms and click next to continue.
Select use previously downloaded files and click next to continue.
Path for downloaded files is : c:\configMgr2012R2\Redist
Path for downloaded files is : c:\configMgr2012R2\Redist
It will verify the downloaded components to proceed further.
Select the language as English and click next to continue.
Provide Site code, Site name and installation folder and check the box to install the configuration manager console and click next to proceed further.
Provide Site code, Site name and installation folder and check the box to install the configuration manager console and click next to proceed further.
Select Install the primary site as a stand-alone site as we don’t have existing hierarchy or CAS installed in our environment.
Click on yes to continue.
Note: you can install the CAS into a hierarchy and expand your site later or any time.
Note: you can install the CAS into a hierarchy and expand your site later or any time.
Provide the required information related to Database and click next to proceed further.
Provide path to SQL server data file and log file to proceed further and click next to continue.
Provide path to SQL server data file and log file to proceed further and click next to continue.
Click next to continue.
Select configure the communication method on each site system role because I don’t want to use HTTPS communication from clients as I want to configure the communication separately on each site system role.
Select configure the communication method on each site system role because I don’t want to use HTTPS communication from clients as I want to configure the communication separately on each site system role.
Select the check box to install the Management Point and Distribution point to proceed further and click next to continue. If you want you can install these roles later also.
select the appropriate option and click next to continue.
Verify the settings summary once again and click next to continue.
Click next to continue post prerequisites checkup completes and click begin install to proceed further.
Click next to continue post prerequisites checkup completes and click begin install to proceed further.
To monitor the Installation status, check the C:\ConfigMgrSetup logs.
Installation successfully completed, now we can go ahead and close the window to finish the setup.
In logs, we can see the below entry and it will show as completed configuration manager 2012 Server setup.
Post installation you will get an administration console called Configuration Manager Console to manage the clients.
To find out the version of the configuration manager go to about system center configuration Manager.
This concludes the installation of SCCM 2012 R2 – Standalone primary site.
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