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SCCM 2016 prerequisites

For SCCM 2016 we have prerequisites: hardware, software, service accounts and AD Schema

  • Hardware
    • CPU 2 x v-CPU
    • Memory 16 GB (in my lab 6 GB)
    • 7 x HDD
      • C:\ OS, 80 GB, OS Installation
      • D:\ APPS, 80 GB, SCCM binaries
      • E:\ Content, 200 GB, Source files for apps, drivers, updates, packages, etc
      • F:\ Temp DB, 20 GB
      • G:\ Temp DB logs, 20 GB
      • H:\ DB, 40 GB
      • I:\ DB logs, 20 GB
  • Software
    • SQL server (it's free for System center usage) with collation SQL_Latin_General_CP1_CI_AS
    • Windows ADK for Windows 10, version 1607 Link: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-assessment-deployment-kit
    • Windows Roles
      • BITS
      • .Net
      • WSUS, After you finished to install SQL
      • IIS
      • Common HTTP Features
        Static Content
        Default Document
        Directory Browsing
        HTTP Errors
        HTTP Redirection
      • Health and Diagnostics
        HTTP logging
        Logging tools
        Request Monitor
        Tracing
         
      • Performance
        Static Content Compression
        Dynamic Content Compression
      • Security
        Basic Authentication
        Windows Authentication
        URL Authorization
        Request Filtering
        IP and Domain Restrictions
      • Application Development
        ASP.NET 4.5
        .NET Extensibility
        ASP 4.5
        ISAPI Extensions
        ISAPI Filters
      • Management Service
        IIS 6 Management Compatibilty
        IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility
        IIS 6 WMI Compatibility
        IIS 6 Scripting Tools
        IIS 6 Management Console
        All Management Tools
        IIS Management Console
        IIS Management Scripts and Tools
         
  • Service accounts
    • Domain Group sccm_admin where you will drop all domain members to be administrators in SCCM
    • SQL account db_sccm
    • SCCM push client sccm_push, regular domain user
  • AD
    • System Management Container
    • Schema Update
    • GPO to add sccm_push to the local administrator
    • GPO to stop windows automatic update
    • GPO to add firewall exception in windows firewall for push sccm agent 

System Management Container

Open adsiedit.msc and connect to Default Naming Context

Select CN=System right click and create a new object 

Select Container --> Next --> Value add System Management --> Next --> Finish

Now open Active Directory Users and Computers, select view-->Advanced Features

Right click on the new container, System Management, and select Delegate control --> Next --> Select the SCCM server object --> Create a custom task to delegate --> Select default This folder, existing objects ... --> Next --> Select everything (General, Property-Specific, Creation/Deletion ..) with Permissions: Full control --> Finish

Schema Update

This step can be made from any station with domain admin wrights, I will run that from my sccm server. Open command prompt  Go to SCCM installation package 

d:\SC_Configmgr_SCEP_1606\SMSSETUP\BIN\X64>extadsch.exe

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager v5.00 (Build 8412)
Copyright (C) 2011 Microsoft Corp.


Successfully extended the Active Directory schema.

Please refer to the ConfigMgr documentation for instructions on the manual configuration of access rights in active directory which may still need to be performed.  (Although the AD schema has now be extended, AD must be configured to allow each ConfigMgr Site security rights to publish in each of their domains.)

d:\SC_Configmgr_SCEP_1606\SMSSETUP\BIN\X64>