Need suggestion wrt sccm 2012 implementation

I have a production scenario where there are 3500+ client servers which are located in 5 different location in different geographical location and each location is having Data center, can someone pl suggest what shall be the best fit design before implementing
SCCM 2012?
shall I go for Primary Stand-alone on mail DC with Secondary sites on remaining DC locations or shall I configure DP roles on remaining DC locations?
Thanks in Advance
Rupesh

Yes, I know this is an old post, but I’m trying to clean them up. Did you solve this problem, if so what was the solution?
For this I would use 1 primary site and some DPs based on network layout and speed.
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I am in need of an SCCM 2012 query that shows PCs that have Visio , Adobe Professional and Visual Studio and the last time each was used or opened. I have the query below which give me the PC name and the product. Any assistance will be very helpful
select distinct SMS_R_System.NetbiosName, SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName
like "%adobe acrobat%pro%"
select distinct SMS_R_System.NetbiosName, SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName
like "%visio%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%viewer%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%service pack%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%security
update%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%hydra%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%update%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%MUI%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName
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select distinct SMS_R_System.NetbiosName, SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName
= "Microsoft Visual studio 2012 devenv" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%hotfix%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%security%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName
not like "%update%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%service%"

Did you create a software metering rule for each software title? if not then you need you do that first and it will take over a week before you see results.
Also keep in mind that your query will only find x86 software titles.
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Guys We are working for a mining company SCCm 2012 implementation need design idea

we have globally 40,000 users but dont have more then 600users in same place but in same region we have
A) London-12000 in one country
B) paris-5000 in one country
C) china-3000 in one country and
D)India-2000
E)Maxico-5000
F)3000-Norway
G)10000 -USA
but in all these regions these all users divided in multiple locations we dont have more then 600 in same building dont know how to design the hierarchy we have good connectivity all over the palces but someplaces we have WAN connectivity.
Guys these all are in Multiple forest and multi domain environment.

Unlike Torsten I generally will give some suggestions on design questions in the forums.
I usually do - *if* it can be answered here in the forums. I just don't recommend anything that's based on speculations ;-)
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after expanding to 120 GB. When digging through the blogs, I doubted it could be BAD MIF inbox folder(screenshot attached), so went ahead and ran space check on the server, and looks like the major % of drive space is being occupied by the inbox folder and
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I checked basic stuffs like clearing up profile & recycle bin data and any of this kind.
Step by step guide in detail should be more helpful in this regard. And, I hope this should be helpful for a larger SCCM admin crowd like me in the universe.
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We are seeing a stable disk size nowadays.
With that hopefully, this is a time to sum up the actions taken.
1. SCCM 2012 implemented a couple of months ago.
2. During the implementation phase, Client & Discovery settings were enabled to be quite an aggressive schedules to get good amount of results in a short period.
3. Implementation had been successfully completed and the system was running just fine until I noticed the space crunch
4. I thought it was normal and increased the disk space by 50% which got ate up in a couple of days and that's when I started suspecting about something is going wrong
5. As an interim solution, have increased the disk space by 70% and started troubleshooting the SCCM buddy.
6. Discovery settings were brought down to not to be aggressive (but this wasn't the issue) - still the issue was going on
7. Inventory settings were too brought down to be nominal (Useful :
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1912064&seqNum=8)
8. By this time, I brought my colleague who was involved during the Implementation. We did the clean-up on server, went through the Inbox\Auth folders and were trying to figure out still what is going wrong.
9. We couldn't notice much improvement about the situation though we gave enough time for each and every fix that we applied.
10. Through some warnings and errors in the site system status, remembered that the 'Configuration.mof' was modified for testing some customized inventory classes, during the implementation phase which was getting mismatched data from lot of different clients.
- "Potential cause figured out"
11. Replaced the original Configuration.mof, and we started noticing big differences - the space was no more increasing.
12. Still we could see lot of old files in sub-folders of Inbox\Auth folder, we hope all these files would try to process for the information that we added in the 'Configuration.mof' > will fail > will go to respective 'Bad/Corrupt' folders and
eventually will be removed as per the clean-up cycle.
I will update the thread if anything goes wrong beyond this point. But, we believe it wouldn't as we have found the culprit and fixed.
**** I appreciate all your responses to help me with this situation. Happy SCCMing..!
Thanks, V@s!m

SCCM 2012 QUERY THAT SHOWS SOFTWARE INSTALLED AND LAST TIME IT WAS USED OR OPENED

Hello
I am in need of an SCCM 2012 query that shows PCs that have Visio , Adobe Professional and Visual Studio and the last time each was used or opened. I have the query below which give me the PC name and the product. Any assistance will be very helpful
select distinct SMS_R_System.NetbiosName, SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName
like "%adobe acrobat%pro%"
select distinct SMS_R_System.NetbiosName, SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName
like "%visio%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%viewer%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%service pack%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%security
update%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%hydra%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%update%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%MUI%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName
not like "%amd%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%microsoft visio%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%vision%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%add-in%"
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= "Microsoft Visual studio 2012 devenv" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%hotfix%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%security%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName
not like "%update%" and SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName not like "%service%

See me reply to your other post with the exact same details, in the CM07 forum.
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SCEP going out to the internet after being migrated to SCCM 2012 and saturating facility MPLS.

I was unaware of the fact that SCEP was gonig out to the internet to pull down 120 megs worth of data each time a client is migrated. I'm trying to determine the easiest or best way to avoid this. I've done some research and it looks like bundeling the SCEP
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what they needed from the SCCM 2012 env. I'm using ADR to push the definitions and that seems to be working fine except for 2 situations. One a client is migrated, or 2 the client comes online after being offline for more than 7 days and goes out.
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pull DPs, and if further details of my infrastructure would be helpful please just let me know.
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Jorgen,
I appreciate you pointing out the setting and that has helped partially and I was able to track down the URL that is being used by the clients for QoS by networking. Now management has pushed back with why are the clients going to the internet at all. I
can understand why. If were deploying all the patches why can't the clients pull their SCEP engine from the SUP/WSUS server. I see it finding it in the MPCMDRUN.Log file but it still goes out to Microsoft to pull the 120 meg file. Do i not have any other options
for pushing the engine to the clients, if ADR is working for current clients what am i missing. I'm sure its something obvious, but my migration is on hold up until I can keep the clients from going to the internet for their new engine and deltas.
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Help needed -- Considerations to be taken while migrating 2 different SCCM 2007 hierarchies into a single SCCM 2012 Hierarchy.

Hi, I need your help on consolidating two different SCCM 2007 infrastructures into a single SCCM 2012.
We have two different SCCM 2007 Hierarchies, Lets say 123 and ABC
About 123 SCCM 2007 -- On 123 Hierarchy, we have already started migrating clients from SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012.
About ABC SCCM 2007 -- On ABC Hierarchy, This is still running on SCCM 2007 (This hierarchy only be started migrating once we
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Out of which, we have few co located offices across the globe for both 123 and ABC. Now we are decided to replace the hardware on all these locations by removing the existing two servers (one for 123 and other for ABC,with two different Forest and domains),
and consolidate them into a single server.how can we plan/design to ensure that we covering both hierarchies SCCM clients for the operations.
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srkr

1) In CM 2012 you can publish data to System Management in other forest but you have to configure the permissions manually and create the forest object in the ConfigMgr console.
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SCCM 2012 What Ports Do I need to open so DMZ servers can communicate with my SCCM Server?

Hi,
What ports do I need to open in the firewall so my DMZ servers can talk to my SCCM server on the network?
Here are my steps before to make my DMZ servers talk to my SCCM server:
1. On my SCCM 2012 SP1 CU2 I have bounderies installed --> I install SCCM Client on my DMZ server with the appropriate switches --> I go back to my SCCM server to approve the server --> Works
But now my DMZ servers stops getting definition updates from my SCCM server and I was suggested that it is much easier to open ports in DMZ.
Now, could you please tell me what ports should we open to ensure two way communication among servers?
Thanks!

Yes and no. It's a bit muddy at times.
For Internet based clients, putting an Internet-enabled MP in the DMZ is perfectly acceptable because Internet clients will only choose MPs enabled for Internet communication.
For systems in the DMZ, that's where it really gets muddy. There's no perfect way to accomplish this. IMO, DMZ clients should be allowed to go back to the MP/DP in the Intranet with a targeted opening in the DMZ firewall rules that allows them to only go
to the internal MP. That's a security policy question though for your organization.
Another option is to treat the clients in the DMZ as Internet only clients. This way, they will only go to the Internet MP in the DMZ. You do lose some functionality though like Remote Control.
A final way is to actually put an MP/DP in the DMZ and deal with the timeout's that happen when clients try to talk to the MP in the Intranet. Clients will try 5 times to contact that MP before giving up. They try to find a new MP at the following times
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SCCM 2012 r2 hierarchy (need to test all features in production)

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Need test cases to handover sccm 2012 r2 hierarchy ,
Test Cases for MP ,DP, and software distribution with OSD and Software updates, DCM(compliance)application catalog
need to create documents ,where i have to mention how to we are going to test these features in production,this is my first time where i am creating all these documents,if anyone have implemented sccm 2012 r2 and created test cases please help.

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I need to upgrade the silverlight version that is deployed with the SCCM 2012 client installation

We have SCCM 2012 SP1 installed and I need to upgrade the version of silverlight that get installed on the client deployement.
The version that is automaticly deployed is 5.1.10411.0 and this one is not compatible with Firefox. When you click on Application Catalog it start the browser but it fails to load because of the silverlight plug-in that is not up to date. The
version that is working fine is the 5.1.20913.0 and it's already installed on my SCCM site server.
So that is why I'm looking to upgrade the silverlight that is installed with the SCCM client.
I know that a simple workarround would be to create a package that would be deployed after the client gets installed, but why not changing the original package at the source instead of installing twice the same software the get the right version!
Is there someone that could point me where I could upgrade this Silverlight prerequirement software version ?

Note that I have not tested either of these and they will not be supported by Microsoft.
1. Copy your new version of Silverlight.exe to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Client\i386
(you'll have to re-distribute the client package after this).
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<Item FileName="i386/Silverlight.exe" FileHash="417B442E128D821119008ACEEEE6CDC2A41224377A829B6EC52BABA2724F0151">
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Need to make collection Query statement by sccm 2012 sp1 for Count of Licenses by License Status

I want to make collection Query statement by sccm 2012 sp1 for all windows activated and all non-activated windows.
Ahmed Sherif

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SCCM 2012 SP1 - How many servers do I need?

I'm planning a SCCM test environment using SCCM 2012 SP1 with the goal of using DCIP 3.1. DCIP 3.1 only supports up to SCCM 2012 SP1. I'm new to SCCM and I'm planning to follow Kevin Holman's ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 -QuickStart deployment Guide (Sorry, I can't
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I'm using a virtual environment to build this out so I can create more machines as needed.
In the guide two systems are used, DB3 and CM1 each with designated services. Could those services be safely installed on one machine instead of two? Why choose to split the SQL and Database Services, from the Primary Site Server, Management Server, and Web
Console Server?
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For a lab and most small(ish) production sites you can get away with 1 server.
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SCCM 2012 R2 CU2 Update - Need to update console or clients as well?

Hi,
I am going to be installing the following update onto out SCCM 2012 server:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2970177/en-us
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Site server, console and clients needs to be updated.
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