SCCM 2007 How To - Preparing For Setup
As the public Beta 2 of SCCM has been on the Microsoft Connect web site for about a week now it is time to start introducing it. Last week I made my first post on what's new in SCCM, and I briefly discussed some of the details of the new patching process. This article will focus strictly on the preparation of the installation of SCCM, it will be followed with another article on the setup process, and then the configuration of the site.
I started out with a bare metal VPC running in VPC 2007 with three virtual drives, the first one for the OS, Windows 2003 SP1, the second for SMS and WSUS, the third for SQL 2005 SP2. I run all my VM's on an external drive connected via USB to my laptop so the concept of having the three drives doesn't really provide the performance increase that you would get with three physically separate drives or LUN's but it follows best practices and keeps things nice and tidy. Also, unless you run the Beta of Longhorn you cannot use the Network Access Protection (NAP) portion of SCCM.
Before you get started, if you are new(er) to the SMS planning and configuration I would recommend that you use the worksheets that Microsoft has provided to help outline your setup and configuration, this will help you gather all the information you need to plan and setup your site and it keeps you from trying to remember what you did, or didn't do. When I write a full article on a process I always include a worksheet as well because I use them when I go through the same process. All of these worksheets should be used by anyone before moving into production with a site. I know I will certainly use them.
UPADTE: Links to worksheets fixed
Active Directory Planning Worksheet
Discovery Planning Worksheet
Site Boundaries Planning Worksheet
Site Planning Worksheet
Site Planning Summary Worksheet
Site Systems Planning Worksheet
Site Systems Planning Summary Worksheet
Configuration Manager Console Planning Worksheet
Client Installation Planning Worksheet
Client Agent Planning Worksheet
Assuming you completed the worksheets lets move on. After the install of Windows 2003 SP1 on my VPC I set it up as a DC in a new domain, install AD, DHCP, DNS, and WINS. After that completes I start to check off the prerequisites, installing IIS, with BITS, installing .NET Framework 2.0, several hotfixes, MMC 3.0, and then SQL 2005, followed by SQL 2005 SP2, you must have at least SP1 for SQL to install CM.
Links for the prerequisites.
Thanks to Karl-Heinz Dorner for updating me on the COM+ 1.5 Hotfix Rollup!
.NET Framework 2.0, MMC 3.0 for Windows 2003, SQL 2005 SP2, MS06-030, COM+ 1.5 Hotfix Rollup, Hotfix 913538, Hotfix 932303, Hotfix 925335
*NOTE: At this point you should create an account for your SMS admin to use, your network access account, and if you want some reporting users, help desk staff, whatever you typically use for accounts in SMS.
The next step is to extend the AD schema, this needs to be done by someone with schema modification rights, depending on the rights you gave your SMS Admin account it is likely that you do not have these rights, if you are still logged in as the Administrator you should have rights to do this. You can extend the schema by opening a command prompt, browsing the contents of your SCCM files (assuming you have extracted the exe) in the SMSSETUP\BIN\I386 directory locate the extadsch.exe file, and drag it into the command prompt window and execute it. After it completed, which should take less than a minute, browse to the root of your boot drive and open the log ExtADSch.log, open that file and look for the line
Successfully extended the Active Directory schema.
If you see this then it worked. Once you have extended the schema and the SMS Admin account has been created you will want to log off as the Administrator and logon as the SMS admin before you run setup.
After all the prerequisites are installed I launch autorun.exe to kick off the installation, this actually presents you with a menu to install CM, the Software Update Point (SUP), Application Compatibility Toolkit plugin, or view the documentation. I select the install for CM and this begins a wizard much like what you see touted as the task sequences in CM.
The actual setup process will be in the next post.
Regards,
Anthony
Anthony Clendenen | Senior Technical Consultant | Microsoft Practices | Dimension Data
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