The first Hotfix Rollup for SCCM Current Branch (1802) is now available. This post is a complete SCCM 1802 Hotfix Rollup 1 (KB4163547) installation guide. If you’re looking for a complete SCCM Current Branch installation guide, see our blog series which covers it all. You can’t install this upgrade if you are running SCCM 2012. You need to be running SCCM 1802 to apply this update. Installing SCCM upgrades is important for your infrastructure. It fixes a lot of issues from SCCM 1802, which some of them are important. New Update and Servicing Model If you’re not familiar with the new SCCM servicing model, read our New Update and Servicing section of the 1602 upgrade post which explain it all. You may wonder what’s the difference between a Cumulative Update (CU) and an Update Rollup (UR)/Hotfix RollUp (HR) : A CU is a new servicing baseline. A post-CU1 hotfix requires CU1 first, whereas a post-UR1 … Read More
Step-by-Step SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 CU3 Installation Guide
Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) for SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 and SCCM 2012 SP2 is now available. This post is a complete step-by-step SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 CU3 Installation guide. If you’re looking for a complete SCCM 2012 installation guide, see our blog series which covers it all. Installing SCCM cumulative updates is very important to your infrastructure. It fix lots of issues, which some of them are important. Microsoft recommends installing Cumulative Updates if you are affected by a resolved issues. If you are not on SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 or SCCM 2012 SP2, the latest CU is Cumulative Update 5. If you are running SCCM 1511, this Cumulative Update is not applicable to your setup. As this is a cumulative update, you don’t have to install prior CU(1-2) before installing CU3. CU3 contains all the fixes included in previous CU. Improvements/Fixes There’s no new major functionality in CU3. This update contains fixes for issues … Read More
Step-by-Step SCCM 2012 R2 CU5 Installation Guide
Here’s a step-by-step SCCM 2012 R2 CU5 Installation guide. Installing SCCM cumulative updates is very important to your infrastructure. It fix lots of issues, which some of them are important. As this is a cumulative update, you don’t have to install prior CU(1,2,3,4) before installing CU5. CU5 contains all the fixes included in previous CU. Improvements/Fixes There’s no new major functionality in CU5. It mostly applies the latest KB and fixes known bugs. Follow this Microsoft Support page to see a full list of issues that are fixed. PowerShell changes are no longer included in CU as described in our previous post. You won’t find any changes in PowerShell following this CU. Before you begin Installing this update is very similar to CU4. I’ll guide you through the upgrade process step-by-step in a standalone primary scenario. Download the update on the Microsoft Support page This update can be applied directly to the following Systems/Roles: … Read More
Step-by-Step SCCM 2012 R2 CU4 Installation Guide
Here’s a step-by-step SCCM 2012 R2 CU4 Installation guide. Installing SCCM cumulative updates is very important to your infrastructure. It fix lots of issues, which some of them are important. As this is a cumulative update, you don’t have to install prior CU(1,2,3) before installing CU4. CU4 contains all the fixes included in previous CU. Improvements/Fixes Follow this Microsoft Support page to see a full list of issues that are fixed. Windows Powershell changes are document on Microsoft Support as well. There’s no new major functionality in CU4. It mostly applies the latest KB and fixes known bugs. The more important one is about Application installation step in Task Sequences. If you’re a PowerShell fan, CU4 brings 36 new cmdlets as well of fixing 28 existing one. Before you begin Installing this update is very similar to CU3. I’ll guide you through the upgrade process step-by-step in a standalone primary scenario. Download the update on … Read More
Step-by-Step SCCM 2012 R2 CU2 Installation Guide
Step-by-Step SCCM 2012 R2 CU2 Installation guide As promised in my previous blog entry, here’s a step-by-step SCCM 2012 R2 CU2 installation guide. Installing SCCM cumulative updates is very important to your infrastructure. It fix lots of issues, which some of them are important. To see a full list of Issues that are fixed: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2970177/en-us You no longer have download lots of separate hotfix, everything is bundled in a Cumulative Update package. If you haven’t installed CU1, skip it and install only CU2. If you have already installed CU1, go ahead and install CU2. Installing this update is very similar to CU1. I’ll guide you through the upgrade process step-by-step in a standalone primary scenario. Download the Update SCCM 2012 R2 CU2 is available for downloaded here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2970177/en-us This update can be applied directly to the following Systems/Roles: The Central Administration Site (CAS) Primary Site Secondary Site SMS Provider Configuration Manager Console In this … Read More
SCCM 2012 R2 CU2 Released
Microsoft has just released SCCM 2012 R2 CU2. ****Updated : Full installation guide here**** Follow the link for a full list of issues fixed by CU2 : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2970177/ As per my previous post, the Start-CMPackageDeployment is now fixed 🙂 Client Version has been updated : SCCM ConfigMgr 2012 R2 CU2 Client Version:- 5.00.7958.1203 SCCM ConfigMgr 2012 R2 CU2 Endpoint Protection Client Version:- 4.5.0216.0 Reminder about Cumulative Update : From Technet : Each CU is considered a large hotfix. Therefore, the general guidance is to install it if you are encountering, or believe you may encounter, one of the issues fixed by current CU (or a prior one). However, a CU also represents a new servicing baseline; In the event we release a critical on-demand hotfix for Configuration Manager it will require the latest released CU be installed first. This doesn’t happen often, but may affect your test and deployment strategy. Cumulative … Read More
SCCM KB2905002 installation guide and Useful Information
The first hotfix for SCCM 2012 R2 is out and it’s time to install it.I’ll document a step-by-step SCCM KB2905002 installation guide and gives some useful information. For those of you that are used to update SCCM, you won’t be disorientated. The first thing you need to know is that this hotfix will update the site’s servers, the consoles and the clients. This means that you’ll need to update those after the hotfix installation. Rest assured, the hotfix will create 3 updates packages for you during the installation. Start with the higher site in your hierarchy. You can use the update package that will be created for the other site systems or manually rerun this setup on all site systems. I see the update process in 3 distinct phases : Installation, review, component update Step 1 – Installation Download : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2905002/en-us Technet Deployment guide : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553405.aspx Once downloaded, extract the installation package to … Read More