The FSP helps monitor client installation and identify unmanaged clients that cannot communicate with their management point. This is not a mandatory Site System but we recommend to install a FSP for better client management and monitoring. You can also check if reports that depend on the FSP are populated with data. See the full list of reports that rely on the FSP here.
The Management Point is the primary point of contact between Configuration Manager clients and the site server. Management Points can provide clients with installation prerequisites, configuration details, advertisements and software distribution package source file locations. Additionally, Management Points receive inventory data, software metering information and state messages from clients. Multiple Management Points are used for load-balancing traffic and for clients to continue receiving their policy after Management Point failure.
Read about how clients choose their Management Point in this Technet article. The Management Point is a site-wide option. By default, when you install a Secondary site, a Management Point is installed on the Secondary site server.
Secondary sites do not support more than one Management Point and this Management Point cannot support mobile devices that are enrolled by Configuration Manager. See the full Supported Configuration in the following Technet article.
On Windows , the following features must be installed before the Management Point Installation:. This role can be installed on a remote machine, the process is the same but the location of the logs is different. Continue through the wizard and reboot the computer at the end of the installation if instructed to do so.
Before configuring the reporting point, some configuration needs to be made on the SQL side. The virtual instance needs to be created for SCCM to connect and store its reports.
If you install SSRS later, then you will have to go back and configure it as a subsequent step. This wizard creates two databases: ReportServer , used to store report definitions and security, and ReportServerTempDB which is used as scratch space when preparing reports.
This step sets up the SSRS web service. The web service is the program that runs in the background that communicates between the web page, which you will set up next, and the databases. This step sets up the Report Manager web site where you will publish reports. Using the simple recovery model improves performance and saves your server hard drive and possibly a large transaction log file.
Check for the following logs for reporting point installation status. Both logs are under the SCCM logs file locations. This Site System is a site-wide option. When using WSUS 3. This has changed with and The problem is that will still cause some trouble with the post-install task. Bonus link : I suggest that you read the excellent article written by Kent Agerlund on how to avoid what he calls the House of Cards. The State Migration Point stores user state data when a computer is migrated to a new operating system.
The State Migration Point is a site-wide option. The State Migration Point can be installed on the site server computer or on a remote computer. It can be co-located on a server that has the distribution point role. If you have any error in the installation process refer to this post that explains the permission needed for the SMP to install correctly.
This package is specified when you add the Capture User State step to your task sequence. This is not a mandatory site system but you need a System Health Validator Point if you plan to use NAP evaluation in your software update deployments. This site system integrates with an existing NAP server in your infrastructure.
The System Health Validator Point is a hierarchy-wide option. In order to enable Network Access Protection on your clients, you must configure your client settings :. From Technet :. Each hierarchy supports a single instance of this role. The site system role can only be installed at the top-tier site of your hierarchy On a Central Administration Site or a stand-alone Primary Site.
If you select to skip the role installation, you can manually add it to SCCM using the following steps. Now that all our site servers are installed, we are now ready to configure the various aspect of SCCM. We will start our configuration with the SCCM boundaries. To use a boundary, you must add the boundary to one or more boundary groups. Boundary groups are collections of boundaries. By using boundary groups, clients on the intranet can find an assigned site and locate content when they have to install software, such as applications, software updates, and operating system images.
A boundary does not enable clients to be managed at the network location. To manage a client, the boundary must be a member of a boundary group.
Simple Boundaries on do nothing, they must be added to one or more boundary groups in order to work. Microsoft recommends the following :. When a client requests content, and the client network location belongs to multiple boundary groups, Configuration Manager sends the client a list of all Distribution Points that have the content. This behavior enables the client to select the nearest server from which to transfer the content or state migration information. In our various SCCM installations, our clients are often confused about this topic.
That way, all my clients for my 4 locations will be assigned to my Montreal Primary Site. For Content Location, we want clients to get their content locally at their respective location. This is a simple but typical scenario. You can have multiples boundaries and Site System in your Boundary Groups if needed. Client settings are used to configure your deployed agents. This is where you decide any configuration like :. In previous versions of SCCM, client settings were specific to the site.
You had 1 client settings that applied to all your hierarchy. In SCCM you can specify clients setting at the collection level. You can have different settings for specific collections, overlapping settings are set using a priority setting. When you modify the Default Client Settings , the settings are applied to all clients in the hierarchy automatically.
You do not need to deploy the Default Client Settings to apply it. By default, it has a priority value This is the lower priority. All other custom client settings can have a priority value of 1 to which will always override the Default Client Settings. The higher Priority is 1. The Technet documentation is pretty clear and many of the client settings are self-explanatory.
We cannot make any recommendations either as each environment has its own needs and limitations. When you deploy a custom client settings, they override the Default Client Settings. Before you begin, ensure that you created a collection that contains the devices that require these custom client settings. For our blog post, we will set the Client Policy polling interval to 15 minutes. When you create a new client setting, it automatically takes the next available priority.
Beginning with 1 Before deploying it, make sure that your priority is well set for your needs. A higher priority 1 will override any settings with a lower priority. Now that your client settings are created, you need to deploy it to a collection.
This new client settings will apply to only this collection and depending on the priority, will override the settings. Client computers will apply your custom settings when they download their next client policy. You can trigger it manually to speed up the process.
We already cover this in a previous article. After you completed your SCCM installation, you certainly want to start managing some systems. This blog article will explain the various discovery methods and will describe how to configure it. SCCM discovery methods identifies computer and user resources that you can manage by using Configuration Manager. It can also discover the network infrastructure in your environment.
Discovery creates a discovery data record DDR for each discovered object and stores this information in the Configuration Manager database. When discovery of a resource is successful, discovery puts information about the resource in a file that is referred to as a discovery data record DDR.
DDRs are in turn processed by site servers and entered into the Configuration Manager database where they are then replicated by database-replication with all sites. The replication makes discovery data available at each site in the hierarchy, regardless of where it was discovered or processed.
You can use discovery information to create custom queries and collections that logically group resources for management tasks such as the assignment of custom client settings and software deployments. Computers must be discovered before you can use client push installation to install the Configuration Manager client on devices.
In simple words, it means that SCCM needs to discover a device before it can manage them. The problem is that if you have a thousand computers, it can be a fastidious process. By using Active Directory System Discovery, all your computers will be shown on the console, from there you can choose to install the client using various SCCM methods.
There are 5 Types of Discovery Methods that can be configured. Discovers computers in your organization from specified locations in Active Directory. In order to push the SCCM client to the computers, the resources must be discovered first. You can specify to discover only computers that have logged on to the domain in a given period of time. This option is useful to exclude obsolete computer accounts from Active Directory. You also have the option to fetch custom Active Directory Attributes.
This is useful if your organization store custom information in AD. You can read our blog post concerning this topic. Discovers groups from specified locations in Active Directory.
The discovery process discovers local, global or universal security groups. Hi Prajwal The. I need your help to know how to create bootable media in SCCM , I am getting error at the end of the task i am getting error. Have you seen this and if so, do you know how to resolve?
Hi Prajwal, thanks for the article it was really helpful. Please tell me how to disable the first Network setting dialog during a Bootable media type OS install. Thanks in advance. Hello Prajwal hope you keeping well. Is it possible to run SSCM Task sequence steps after loading in to the installed windows using a auto-login account.
I need to run some scripts, that need user to login using a particular account and then the task sequence is required to carry few script install. It is stuck on preparing windows for the first time. Any advice please? Great post, very helpful. When I get to the Create Task Sequence Wizard — Install the operating system window, my first field option is titled Image package as opposed to Package illustrated in your screen shot above.
When I click the Browse button there are no installation packages listed? I suspect the wizard is accessing the default location for images.
Chad — I believe I have missed adding a screenshot where in I had imported. Please import the. I am facing the same issue, can you please guide how to import, if possible with the screenshot or related URL or vdo asap. Prajwal thanks a lot for nice posts. As mentioned by Dial-in either we need to add Install. If yes, I will create a post on that soon. Hi, I believe there is a step missing, the build and capture task sequence requires an OS image install.
Otherwise, a very helpful tutorial. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. PXE initiated deployments : PXE-initiated deployments let client computers request a deployment over the network. The operating system image and a Windows PE boot image are sent to a distribution point that is configured to accept PXE boot requests.
Multicast deployments : In this method the operating system image is sent to a distribution point, which in turn simultaneously deploys the image when client computers request the deployment. Bootable Media Deployments : Bootable media deployments let you deploy the operating system when the destination computer starts. When the destination computer starts, it retrieves the task sequence, the operating system image, and any other required content from the network.
Because that content is not on the media, you can update the content without having to recreate the media. Stand-alone Media Deployments : Stand-alone media deployments let you deploy operating systems in environments where it is not practical to copy an operating system image or other large packages over the network and in environments without network connectivity or low bandwidth network connectivity.
Prestaged Media deployments : Prestaged media deployments let you deploy an operating system to a computer that is not fully provisioned. If a user isn't present to press F12 , the computer boots into the current OS, or from the next available boot device.
You can redeploy a required PXE deployment by clearing the status of the last PXE deployment assigned to a Configuration Manager collection or a computer. This action resets the status of that deployment and reinstalls the most recent required deployments. The PXE protocol isn't secure. Make sure that the PXE server and the PXE client are located on a physically secure network, such as in a data center, to prevent unauthorized access to your site.
Configuration Manager uses a boot image with an exact architecture match. If a boot image with the exact architecture isn't available, Configuration Manager uses a boot image with a compatible architecture. The following list provides details about how a boot image is selected for clients booting with PXE:. If a computer that's assigned to a site boots to PXE for a different site, the policies aren't visible for the computer.
For example, if a client is already assigned to site A, the management point and distribution point for site B aren't able to access the policies from site A. The client doesn't successfully PXE boot. Configuration Manager looks for task sequences that are deployed to the system record found in step 1. In the list of task sequences found in step 2, Configuration Manager looks for a boot image that matches the architecture of the client that's trying to boot.
If a boot image is found with the same architecture, that boot image is used. If it finds more than one boot image, it uses the highest or most recent task sequence deployment ID. In the case of a multi-site hierarchy, the higher letter site would take precedence in that string comparison.
For example, if they're both matched otherwise, a year-old deployment from site ZZZ is selected over yesterday's deployment from site AAA. If a boot image isn't found with the same architecture, Configuration Manager looks for a boot image that's compatible with the architecture of the client.
It looks in the list of task sequences found in step 2. UEFI clients are only compatible with matching architecture. User experiences for OS deployment. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Note When you create an OS deployment that targets only x64 BIOS computers, both the x64 boot image and x86 boot image must be available on the distribution point.
Warning If you use PXE deployments, and configure device hardware with the network adapter as the first boot device, these devices can automatically start an OS deployment task sequence without user interaction. Note In some circumstances, the process to Manage duplicate hardware identifiers may be easier. Warning If you use the Registry Editor incorrectly, you might cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall Windows.
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