If you’re looking for an fast and easy way to install the prerequisites for a new ConfigMgr 2012 R2 environment, this tool will help you in accomplishing just that. As ConfigMgr administrators, or if you’re new to ConfigMgr, we don’t want to spend hours on researching what needs to be enabled or installed on the servers before we can go ahead and perform the installation. The previous released version of this tool only supported ConfigMgr 2012 SP1. Some prerequisites for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 has changed, so I decided to update the previous version to support ConfigMgr 2012 R2 as more and more companies will start to migrate from ConfigMgr 2007 or upgrade from ConfigMgr 2012 SP1.



New features

2014-05-15: Version 1.3.0 has been released

Re-designed the user interface to feature tabs instead of buttons

Validation checks are now executed on first launch, some minor validation checks still exists for specific parts of the tool

Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 has been removed, supported platforms are now Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2

2014-01-14: Version 1.2.1 has been released

Added validation for checking of current user is a Schema Admin when extending the Schema

Added functionality to add Active Directory groups to the System Management container

Removed the need for the Active Directory powershell module, using System.DirectoryServices instead

Description

The tool has the following capabilities:

Sites

Central Administration Site

Primary Site

Secondary Site

Central Administration Site Primary Site Secondary Site Site System Roles

Management Point

Distribution Point

Application Catalog

Enrollment Point

Management Point Distribution Point Application Catalog Enrollment Point Other

Extend Active Directory for ConfigMgr

Install and configure WSUS

Install Windows ADK

System Management container creation

Download the ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Prerequisites installation tool

You’ll find the download link here on the TechNet Gallery.

Documentation

This tool will only run on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. You’ll not be able to run this tool on any of your Domain Controllers. The tool has 4 validation checks that are executed on first launch. It will check if the current user is a member of the local Administrators group, see if there’s any pending restart, check the Operating System if it’s supported and also check the PowerShell version if that’s supported.

Central Administration Site

Use this step to install all prerequisites for a new installation of a Central Administration Site. All the necessary Windows features will be installed. Once the Windows features have been installed, a verification process will start and output if a feature installation was successful or not. You can also choose to download the prerequisite files for the ConfigMgr setup.

Primary Site

Use this step to install all prerequisites for a new installation of a Primary Site. All the necessary Windows features will be installed. Once the Windows features have been installed, a verification process will start and output if a feature installation was successful or not. You can also choose to download the prerequisite files for the ConfigMgr setup.

Secondary Site

Use this step to install all prerequisites for a new installation of a Secondary Site. All the necessary Windows features will be installed. Once the Windows features have been installed, a verification process will start and output if a feature installation was successful or not.

Management Point

This step will install all the necessary Windows features for a Management Point installation. Once the Windows features have been installed, a verification process will start and output if a feature installation was successful or not.

Application Catalog

This step will install all the necessary Windows features for an Application Catalog installation. Once the Windows features have been installed, a verification process will start and output if a feature installation was successful or not.

Distribution Point

This step will install all the necessary Windows features for a Distribution Point installation. Once the Windows features have been installed, a verification process will start and output if a feature installation was successful or not.

Enrollment Point

This step will install all the necessary Windows features for either an Enrollment Point or an Enrollment Proxy Point. You’ll get to choose which site role to install the prerequisites for. Once the Windows features have been installed, a verification process will start and output if a feature installation was successful or not.

Extend Active Directory

In this step, you should enter the NetBIOS or FQDN of your Domain Controller holding the Schema Master FSMO role before you click on Extend. It’s important that you’re running the tool as a user with the proper access. The user account should be a member of the Schema Admins Active Directory group and have atleast local administrator rights on the Schema Master Domain Controller. When the correct name is entered, click on Extend. A connection to the entered server will be established if it passes the check that it really is your forests Schema Master. Once the connection is established and verified successfully, the schema in your Active Directory forest will be extended to support ConfigMgr.

Install WSUS

This will install all the necessary Windows features for Windows Server Updates Services (WSUS). You have the option to configure the WSUS installation with a Windows Internal Database (WID) or to use an existing SQL Server. If you select WID, the database will be put locally on the server the tool is running on. When using the SQL option, enter the SQL Server name (NetBIOS) and the Instance name. If the SQL Server is using the default instance, leave the Instance name field empty.

Install ADK

For those site systems that need the Windows Automated Deployment Kit 8.1 installed, use this step. You’ll have the option to choose to download the setup from the internet (Online) or to use an offline installer already available on the network/server (Offline). Bare in mind that the online installation will take some time to complete.

System Management Container

This tool can create the System Management container in Active Directory and add Active Directory groups with the proper permissions to it. Use this step if you’ve not created the System Management container yet. To do so, put a check mark in the Create the System Management container check box. Click on the Search button to search your domain for Active Directory groups, select the desired group and then by clicking OK the tool will go ahead and execute the configuration.

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