Adding Central Site to a Stand Alone Primary Site in SCCM - Part # 1

Hey All !!

As we all know that With SCCM 2012 SP1 , we can add a Central Site on top of a Stand Alone Primary Site . Well !! Well !! This was not there in SCCM 2012 Without SP1 :-)

 

In this Lab We have used the following scenario:

1. We have a SCCM Stand Alone Primary Site .

2. We will be Adding a Central Site ( Installing it First ) to this Stand Alone Primary Site .

Let us First have a look at the Primary Site and See if it actually is a Stand Alone Primary Site :

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The Above Snap shot is of Data Base Replication in the Administrative Console which shows that  there is No other Site Available Instead of Primary Site .

 

Now , Before we start with the set up of the Central Site , we need to give Full Control to the Central Site Computer and all its Defendants :

 

The below screen shots do this for us :

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Now , Start the SCCM Central Site Installation . Click the  executable file :



 

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Check , Install a SCCM Central Administration Site :

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Add , the Key if you have one , Else USe Evaluation Version :

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Accept  the Agreement

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If you have downloaded the Files then you may give the path else you may download them :

 

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SCCM Will start to check the files :

 

This is a time consuming process and may take a lot of time

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Select Language

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Give Appropriate Names here :

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This is an Important step , as you need to mention that this installation should be a part of Earlier installation and not the first installation

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Give SQL Server Name and other details :

 

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Give Appropriate Name :

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Click Install

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Installation will start and it will take quite an amount of time :

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Check the Log File: configmgr.setup and the last line will show the status

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Now , Login into the SCCM Central Site and Go to Hierarchy and you will see some thing like this :

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Subsequent posts will show how to migrate objects :

One Important thing : If you go to temp file while installing SCCM , you will see configmgrautosave file there . This file Actually has the tasks that are to be done and the way you want to do it . If you want your Installation to be scheduled with some of parameters , then you may give them in the INi file and have your installation as zero touch .