Step By Step SCCM 2012 Installation - Pre-requisite for SCCM 2012 Installation

Hope you have gone through the previous post of Active directory schema extension and publishing site information to AD.

Part - 4

Some windows specific roles and features need to be installed as a prerequisite for SCCM 2012.

Roles necessary

1. BITS (Background Intelligence Transfer Service) - BITS are nothing but a file transfer service that is used to transfer files from one machine to other. BITS use optimized bandwidth to copy the files, so you can use BITS to download large files without affecting other network applications. BITS transfers is more reliable when compare to other services.

From SCCM perspective, BITS play a major role while downloading application from BITS enabled distribution point (pull DP), Software updates are downloaded from a BITS Distribution Point. While doing a client push or client installation the client files is copied using BITS.

2. Remote differential compression – RDC is a type of synchronization algorithm, in simple words it allows applications to synchronize data between two machines in effective way .An RDC can synchronize data between any two or more computers across a network with a minimum amount of data transfer over the network.

3. .Net framework 3.5 and 4.5 – To support the SCCM Application features.

Features

Common HTTP Features

• Default Document
• Static Content.

Application Development

• ASP.NET 3.5
• .NET Extensibility 3.5
• ASP.NET 4.5
• .NET Extensibility 4.5
• ISAPI extensions
• Security – Windows Authentication.

IIS 6 Management Compatibility

• IIS Management Console
• IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility
• IIS 6 WMI Compatibility
• IIS Management Scripts and Tools.

Select the Roles

Select the sub features

Add the features and click Next

Clcik Install

Close the window, once the installation succeeds

Note:

While enabling .Net Framework 3.5 to install, you will be prompted to  specify Alternate source path where the installation files is present. So please navigate to the folder Sourcessxs , it will be available in the  drive where your server OS media is mounted.

Installing Windows Automated Deployment Toolkit   

The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is a set of tools that support the configuration and the deployment of Windows operating systems. The advanced customization is not possible without installation of this toolkit. WAIK 10 is the latest version and supports multiple windows 10 image configuration and deployments. So installing WAIK kit is one the important prerequisite and we will see the installation part below.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/confirmation.aspx?id=30652

So installing WAIK kit is one the important prerequisite.

How to Install?

Just run the adksetup .click yes or No based on your willingness to join the Customer Experience Program.

Accept the License

For a lab setup ,

Selecting Application compatibility toolkit, Deployment tools, Windows pre installation environment is enough

Click install

You could See the installation progress window

After Installation Completes close the window.

Now you are ready to go with SCCM setup installation…..Click Here