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Installing Current Branch 1706 update to System Center Configuration Manager

In today’s tutorial, we will learn about Installing Current Branch 1706 update of System Center Configuration Manager.
We have so many new features in 1706 update, to learn more about the features click here.
To install update 1706, we need to follow the below steps, Currently I am having SCCM Current branch version 1702, so that we can directly update the 1706 from Updates and Servicing node from Configuration Manager console.
To get the Latest update in Updates and Servicing node, seems we need to run the below PowerShell Script. For PowerShell script click here.
After running the above script, Click on Administration -> Overview-> click on Updates and Servicing node and you can see the update listed as below in the console.
Right click on the update, click on download to proceed further.
And you can monitor the status in dpmdownloader.log.
After successful download of update, you can see the status as Ready to Install in Updates and Servicing node as shown below.
To install right click on the update and click on Install Update Pack as shown below and proceed with the installation using Configuration Manager Updates Wizard.

On Installation Wizard, click next to continue.
Select the features as per the requirement, in this scenario I will continue with default selection and click next to continue.

On Client Update Settings, select upgrade without validating and click next to continue.
(If you have a pre-prod collection, you can select the second option to proceed further)
Accept the license terms in next window-> Confirm the settings and click next to continue to proceed with installation and click close to finish the installation.
Post successful installation you can see the status as Installed in Updates and Servicing Node of Configuration Manager console as below.
After refreshing the console, you will get a pop up to install the latest Console, click ok to proceed further and install the console.
To verify the Configuration Manager version, go to About system center configuration manager and you see the newly installed versions of Configuration manager and Console.
This concludes the installation of Current Branch 1706 update to System center configuration Manager.
Please do use the above guide to install the Update and let us know if any clarification and issues.

Thank you and Keep Learning ☺

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