May 5, 2016

CCMSETUP Error Codes

Error CodeMeaning
0Success
6Error
7Reboot Required
8Setup already running
9Prerequisite evaluation failure
10Setup manifest hash validation failure

 

Upgrade SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 and SCCM 2012 SP2

Microsoft has released SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 and SCCM 2012 SP2. Now you can download and upgrade your SCCM 2012 and SCCM 2012 R2 infrastructure servers to SCCM 2012 SP2 and SCCM 2012 R SP1. In this post, I’m trying to explain the difference between two installers available for SCCM 2012 SP1 and R2. It seems most of the people (including me) are getting confused about which installer needs to be used to upgrade the existing SCCM 2012 SP1 or R2 environment.

SCCM 2012 SP2-2



Before start downloading the SCCM 2012 SP2 installer files (SC2012_SP2_Configmgr_SCEP.exe, SC2012_R2_SP1_Configmgr.exe), you need to understand which installers are actually needed for your existing SCCM 2012 SP1 or R2 environment. You don’t need to download the installer SC2012_R2_SP1_Configmgr to upgrade SCCM 2012 R2 to SCCM 2012 R2 SP1. Rather you may need to download the SC2012_SP2_Configmgr_SCEP.exe. So, the binaries of SCCM 2012 SP2 and SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 are same. More details about this topic is available here in Jason’s post.

So, what is the reason for having SC2012_R2_SP1_Configmgr.exe (1,128 KB) installer? If you’re a SCCM 2012 SP1 customer and you don’t have R2 features enabled. Now, you are planning enable R2 features then you need to download and install SC2012_R2_SP1_Configmgr.exe.

SCCM2012R2-SP1

Johan had tweeted about the confusing error if you download and install “SC2012_R2_SP1_Configmgr.exe” in your existing SCCM 2012 R2 environment.The funny error is “To run this software, the computer must run System Center 2012 Configuration Manager with Service Pack 2.

Download SC2012_SP2_Configmgr_SCEP.exe (780,310) from here.
Download SC2012_R2_SP1_Configmgr.exe (1,128 KB) from here.

More details about the new Features and improvements of SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 and SP2 are available in technet documentation.


Install SCCM ConfigMgr 1511 RTM

At last the wait is over, Microsoft released newest version of SCCM /ConfigMgr and this will be known as SCCM/ConfigMgr Current Branch (CB). SCCM CB will get updated every quarter along with Windows 10. It will be called SCCM/ConfigMgr 1511. This version of SCCM won’t be called as SCCM/ConfigMgr 2016 as I mentioned in the previous blog post here (What is the Next Version of SCCM ConfigMgr As A Service). To avoid confusion, I must mention, don’t get confused with SCCM 2016, we don’t know whether there would be something called SCCM 2016 or 2017. This is the current branch of SCCM and this will get updates every 4 months. Download SCCM/ConfigMgr 1511 (not 2016) from MSDN here , Microsoft Evaluation Center and Volume Licensing Service Center.. I installed the SCCM 1511 version in the lab and it has few new options enabled which were not there in SCCM vNext Technical Preview versions. One of them is install SCCM/ConfigMgr CAS (Central Administration Site) server. CAS is not required for most of our organizations as SCCM 1511 primary server can support up to 200000 clients (200K). I’m escaped from CAS now !! What a relief. More details about SCCM 1511 here ConfigMgr team blog.
SCCM 1511 -RTM-1

I would suggest to go with single SCCM 1511 primary server if at all your client count is near to 200k as we have an option to add SCCM/ConfigMgr 1511 CAS server afterwards. Following is the option to add CAS into your environment afterwards. The option is called “Join the Primary Site to an existing Hierarchy”.SCCM 1511 -RTM-4Another important point you need to take care during the SCCM 1511 primary/CAS server installation is “Usage Data (telemetry)”. The telemetry (Usage Data) helps SCCM 1511 to collect the data over internet to improve the product quality, installation/upgrade experience of SCCM application. All the usage data send to Microsoft will be encrypted and there won’t be anything from which Microsoft can identify the customer details.  All the data will be hashed. More details in the TechNet article here.SCCM 1511 -RTM-11
Choose and Control option is there in the above Wizard where you can select the options of usage data like  1. Basic, 2. Enhanced and 3.Full. Basic level data includes data about the SCCM hierarchy, this data will intern help to improve installation and upgrade experience. Example data collected would be site data, operating system version, time zone, Site roles, site numbers, DB performance metrics and details of SCCM features enabled in SCCM site. SCCM 1511 -RTM-18
Another new feature is to keep SCCM/ConfigMgr updated/up to date by connecting the on prem SCCM infrastructure to ConfigMgr /SCCM cloud service. As I mentioned in the previous blog post here, this will help to upgrade and update SCCM / ConfigMgr environment very easily. SCCM 1511 -RTM-12
One another important point I’ve noticed with SCCM/ConfigMgr 151 prerequisite checks are :- AD system management container permission related warning (known bug) in pre requisite check seems to be fixed in the latest version of SCCM / ConfigMgr 1511.SCCM 1511 -RTM-13
This is the famous progress bar of SCCM/ConfigMgr 1511 primary site installation nothing much changes here.SCCM 1511 -RTM-15
 Here we go ! The latest version of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM/ConfigMgr) 1511.  The version of SCCM/ConfigMgr console is 5.0.8325.1000.SCCM 1511 -RTM-16
Site version of the latest SCCM/ConfigMgr release 1511 is 5.00.8325.1000SCCM 1511 -RTM-17

Apr 9, 2014

SQL Server Versions

SQL   VersionVersion Number
SQL   Server 2012 RTM11.0.2100.6
SQL   Server 2012 SP111.0.3000.0
SQL   Server 2008 R2 RTM10.50.1600.1
SQL   Server 2008 R2 SP110.50.2500.0
SQL   Server 2008 R2 SP210.50.4000
SQL   Server 2008 RTM10.0.1600.0
SQL   Server 2008 SP110.0.2531.0
SQL   Server 2008 SP210.0.4000.0
SQL   Server 2008 SP310.0.5500.0
SQL   Server 2005 RTM9.00.1399
SQL   Server 2005 SP19.00.2047
SQL   Server 2005 SP29.00.3042.01
SQL   Server 2005 SP39.00.4035
SQL   Server 2000 RTM8.00.194.0
SQL   Server 2000 SP18.00.384.0
SQL   Server 2000 SP28.00.534.0
SQL   Server 2000 SP38.00.760
SQL   Server 2000 SP3a8.00.760
SQL   Server 2000 SP48.00.2039
SQL   Server 7.0 RTM7.00.623
SQL   Server 7.0 SP17.00.699
SQL   Server 7.0 SP27.00.842
SQL   Server 7.0 SP37.00.961
SQL   Server 7.0 SP47.00.1063
SQL   Server 6.5 RTM6.50.201
SQL   Server 6.5 SP16.50.213
SQL   Server 6.5 SP26.50.240
SQL   Server 6.5 SP36.50.258
SQL   Server 6.5 SP46.50.281
SQL   Server 6.5 SP56.50.415
SQL   Server 6.5 SP5a6.50.416
SQL   Server 6.5 SP5a Update6.50.479