[Prerequisites, Hotfixes and CU] of SCCM 2012 r2

SO let’s get started…
First you have to set your VM
- AD
- SQL Server
- SCCM
About Active Directory i will use Windows server 2012 r2 as an AD server
About SQL Server i am gonna install SQL server 2012
After that i will setup the cumulative update 2 DOWNLOAD LINK
Before you configure SCCM you have to do some prerequisites like Extend AD Schema and other Windows Server Features installation ! How can we do it? there are many ways but the easiest and fastest way is using the ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Prerequisites Installation Tool DOWNLOAD LINK by @NickolajA
After you download,run it using Powershell as an Administrator
Click Y to start….

You can see a lot of things we can do using this cool tool, you can configure the Prerequisites of Central Administration Site, Primary Site, Secondary Site, Site System Roles and Other.

You can Extend AD Schema, install Server prerequisites, install ADK and the SM Container.

Now all the Prerequisites have been finished and correctly configured 😉 let’s cook some SCCM 😀
- Download SCCM 2012 R2 from DOWNLOAD LINK
- Open ISO and click on the splash icon which will open the following console, click Install

- You will see the Before You Begin, click Next

- Get Started wizard, this is our first installation, so i will choose Install a Configuration Manager primary site and click Next

- About Product Key, Install the evaluation edition and if you have a SCCM key insert it and click Next

- Accept the Licence terms and click Next

- Accept all the licence terms of SQL Server and Silverlight then click Next

- Setup the Prerequisites files you can download it from the internet if your VM have access and if NOT you can use the offline mode then click Next

- Choose language and click Next

- Specify a Site code, Name and installation folder then click Next

- As i mentioned above this is the first installation, i don’t have and existing hierarchy so i will choose Install the primary site

- Now it’s the time of Connecting the SCCM with SQL so provide a SQL Server Name ” SCCM by default will create a DB on SQL instance” and click Next

- You can see the paths of DBs then click Next

- Specify a SMS Providers FQDN and click Next

- Let’s configure the Communication way between Client and SCCM server, you can set HTTPs or HTTP if you a valid KPI use the HTTPs it’s much more secure IF NOT use the HTTP protocol so let’s use the HTTP one and click Next

- Now choose from the drop list the HTTP protocol for the the Management Point and Distribution Point then click Next

- Do you want to join the Customer Experience…. i think No 😀 then click Next

- Now this is our last Next you can see the all configuration so click Next

- Wait till SCCM check the Prerequisite

- And finally you can see the Install Overall Progress and View Log of the installation
