SCCM and SQL

Hello,
I want to install SCCM 2012. I'v read that SQL Express isn't supported. We only have a license for System Center, not for a full version of SQL. So, is this required and if not, how can I download the full SQL installation files or can I find the SQL
installation files on the System Center instalaltion CD?
Thanks, Angelo

Hey mate,
You are correct in that SQL Express is not supported. However, a System Center licence does allow you to install a local instance of SQL on the same machine that the SCCM site server will be on. Essentially creating an all-in-one box.
However....just because this is what you ARE licensed for does not necessarily mean it will be the best design for your environment. Local SQL will give you an operating framework to start with, and depending on hardware specs etc should give you
a functioning SCCM environment. If your plan is to manage hundreds/thousands of clients, then a more robust design would be advisable.
Hope this helps.
adrian
I have found this as well, prior to me joining my current workplace, SCCM was setup with a separate SQL server as is good practice for most other systems but I plan to consolidate them onto one box at some point in the future as MS recommends this even for
very large implementations.

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Been racking my brain about this one, searched online (including here) but haven't found a solution yet. My scenario is: SCCM 2012 R2 and SQL 2012 (with databases CM_SCM and SUSDB, instance name is MSSQLSERVER) installed on the same server. SCCM will only
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System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Login failed for user 'DOMAIN\MACHINENAME$'.~~ at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Internal.BaseApi.SoapExceptionProcessor.DeserializeAndThrow(SoapException soapException)~~ at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Internal.DatabaseAccess.AdminDataAccessProxy.ExecuteSPGetConfiguration()~~
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Login failed for user "DOMAIN\MACHINENAME$". Reason: Could not find a login matching the name provided. [CLIENT: <local machine>] - Error 18456, Severity: 14, State: 5
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Dan,
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Like I said, what we would like is to make it like we ever had SCCM installed and start from scratch. Can you share links that might be useful, advice, etc? I will start with these:
http://anoopcnair.com/2012/08/09/sccm-configmgr-2012-uninstall-cas-primary-secondary-server/
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712320.aspx#BKMK_DecommissionSites
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- What about the computers with the SCCM client installed? Is best practice to uninstall it (maybe via AD GPO?)? Can we just reconfigure them? What if it's possible to reuse the site name?
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Remember to also clean the System Management container under System in Active Directory. Regarding the clients, I'd not bother you could use any of the installations method to just reinstall it, or re-assign it with a script. Also, I'd consider coming up
with a good naming standard for the new site codes, as I assume that the previous setup may not have had the best names (CAS, PRI, SEC etc may not always be a good thing).
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http://www.systemcentercentral.com/sql-instances-and-system-center-2012-sysctr-sql-scom-sccm-scsm/
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How are you executing this (through osql/sqlcmd/SSMS)? Can you post the code that it is trying to execute when you get the error "Could not find stored procedure 'k'."? you can double-click on the error message in the results pane to
go directly to the code that is hitting the error if you're using SSMS.
Here is one suggestion to get around the error if using osql/sqlcmd:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sayanghosh/archive/2007/12/23/msg-2812-level-16-state-62-line-1-could-not-find-stored-procedure-s-issues-with-osql.aspx
Thanks,
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sure if it will be needed if they have dedicated tasks.
Thanks for any input you can provide!

It entirely depends on load. WFM will work just fine installed on servers in the SharePoint farm. SSRS preferably should go on the end-user facing servers for better performance.
The questions you're asking are all "it depends" :)
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What is the different between Sharepoint fast search service and Sql server fulltext search?

HI ,
I want to kow what is the different between Sharepoint fast search service and Sql server fulltext search?
Or Can I abstract the Sharepoint fast search from the Sharepoint platform as a isolate component?
Thank you.
James

They are very, very different beasts.
Firstly FAST Search for SharePoint is the old name for the product and is only relevant for SharePoint 2010 not 2013. It got merged into the standard SharePoint search for the 2013 release.
SharePoint search is aimed at providing a Bing or Google like experience for your intranet content, as well as providing some nifty features that are purely SharePoint releated along the way. That means it can crawl SharePoint content, file shares,
outlook mailboxes, internal and external websites and probably fifty other different things if you really tried. Whilst i'm not an expert on SQL full text search I believe it's intended to provide a search feature for content held within SQL databases
and tables.
Can you run SharePoint purely for Search? Yes, definitely.

Matching data types b/w oracle and sql server

anyone here knows if there is a list of data types supported by both oracle and sql server (regardless of releases & versions?
an immediate response would be highly appreciated.
thanks.

Hi,
The following post might be of assistance to you:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151817.aspx
If this is what you're looking for, then mark the question as answered and closed.
Regards,
Naveed.

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