Thursday, 11 April 2019

In-Place Upgrade OS of SCCM Server - Full Step by Step


The blog will share in details System Center Configuration Manager platform lift and shift configuration for pre-installation, during installation and post installation of SCCM Server 1806 Current Branch version. The physical design of the solution specifies how SCCM component and settings is deployed to match new operating system environment with same or upgrade on specifications of the server. 

The content will be:
1) Backup Maintenance Task
2) Lift and Shift Task / In-place Upgrade Task
3) Pre-Requisite Installation
4)Upgrade OS of SCCM Server from CD.Latest folder
5) Post Installation
6) Verification Checklist

Note: If you can't find the information of above topic in this page, you might select to the next page to continue. Thank you. 

In-place Upgrade OS of SCCM server will involve these below task:-

Server
Task
Period
Remarks
Old Server
Robocopy the required folder
 1 hour
Backup
Backup share permission
 0.5 hour
Old server snapshot
20 Minutes
Backup from site maintenance
15 Minutes
Copy the backup folder to new server
1 hour
Server Readiness
copy cd.latest to new server
20 Minutes
Unjoin domain and shutdown
10 Minutes
New Server
Server rename
10 Minutes
Reboot
5 Minutes
Setup Server Role and Features for SCCM
 30 Minutes
Pre-Requisite Installation
Install SQL 2016
20 Minutes
Install SQL 2016 SP2
15 Minutes
Install SQL Management Studio
6 Minutes
Install WSUS Server Role
20 Minutes
Install WADK
35 Minutes 
Recover a site SCCM (sccmadmin)
20 Minutes
Recover a site
Re-enter user password
 1 Minute

Post Installation
SCCM Agent Installation for new sccm server
15 Minutes
Set the memory for wsuspool
5 Minutes 
Synchronized the updates
1.5 hours
Install RCT *additional
15 Minutes
Server snapshot
40 Minutes
Verification
Generate the default report
5 Minutes
Import the custom report
15 Minutes
Test on updates functionality
 2 hours
Test on Application functionality
 1 hour

Footnote: Period time here is depends on the network speed and environment readiness. Could be shorter.

You might find pre-requisite for in-place upgrade OS of SCCM Server at this link.

To recover SCCM site by using cd.latest folder, here you go click me !

To be continued...

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