SCCM Tips, Scripts and Tools

Now that you have figured out your SCCM hierarchy and server requirements for your site its time to start building your servers. If you have not done this yep please review the Preparing for SCCM page before starting any installs Below is what I will be using for my own examples. OS - Server 2016 Standard SQL - 2016 Standard   SCCM 1702 ADK 1607 SQL Server Management Studio 17.1 SCCM Settings: Site code - TST Site Name - SCCMTST Lab Servers: SCCM-Setup - Primary Site Server, Distribution point, SQL and Software Update Point Every server that is a part of your SCCM site will want to have 1 drive for the OS, 1 drive for the page file and 1 drive for the program files.  For your Distribution point you will want to add a drive for your SCCM content to sit on and a drive from the distribution point content. SCCM will story its one copy of the packages, Applications and Image files on the Distribution content drive. For Your Software Update Point server you ...

 As I have said in the past SCCM is a beast there are a lot of moving parts needed to make the system work. When you plan on installing SCCM you should take some time and step back to look at how you want your system to be set up. SCCM much like Active Directory can have multiple sub sites as apart of your primary site. In most cases you will only have a single site. An example of a user for multiple sites would be if you work at Food.inc and Food.inc owns Meat.inc, Veggie.inc and Grain.inc You could set up a Primary Site Server for Food.inc and a child Site server for each sub company. When you start to look at what hardware you are going to need you should be looking at Microsoft SCCM recommendations page . However since Microsoft doesn't always do a good job of always keeping information on there site I have a PDF version of the page saved. Below is a table right from the PDF that will help you to determine what you are going to need to set up your own site. Site deta...