Todd, Thanks for the response. Your notes are pretty much what I've been reading, so at least there's consistency, and I have access to someone that has done it.
My only question is when you say to reprovision the VM. Are you saying to create a new, separate VM, or are you saying to upgrade the OS ony? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mote, Todd Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 7:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] RE: Want to make upgrades in my SCCM environment I did this in the summer of 2014 on the same piece of hardware. You can either upgrade SCCM then take a backup, or take the backup, reinstall everything, then upgrade. The basic steps are: 1. Backup sccm someplace off server (hopefully you're already doing that, and back up content sources if you need to, or leave the data partitions/vdisks alone) 2. Re provision the VM with windows 2012 R2 on the OS partition/disk (if you have that) give it the same name as before. And yes, disks and partitions will need to match, at least the letters, size doesn't matter much, but if you have sccm installed on D: then it has to go back on D: 3. Install sccm and patch it to match the level of the backup (you'll have to give it a new site code, but that will be overwritten by the SCCM site recovery) 4. Restore backup 5. Upgrade/patch sccm to desired level. As I mentioned you could make #5, #1 and upgrade/patch first, it's up to you, but I thought upgrading the OS was better first too. you're not backing up a potentially broken sccm server that way. The way it is now is operational and working. The backup and site restore after will at least get you back to where you were before just on a new OS, and you can pause there and make sure everything is working before moving on to the upgrade of sccm. Todd From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 9:17 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] Want to make upgrades in my SCCM environment I'm currently running SCCM2012 SP1 CU3, on Server 2008R2, in a VMWare environment. I have a single primary, and 14 secondaries. I want to do a couple of things. I want to upgrade to SCCM2012 R2, then to the latest CU there, and I want to move from 2008R2 to Server 2012 R2. I've found some documentation on moving the install to a new server, but that talks about creating the new server with the same name, partitions, drive letters, etc, and doing a backup/restore to move. Will that work when going from on OS to another? Also, in doing that, how do you balance having two machines with the same name on the domain? Finally, my thought is to move the existing environment to Server 2012R2 first, then upgrade to SCCM 2012 R2. I'm sure it doesn't really matter, but that seems the cleanest way to me. The documentation I have now: Planning to Upgrade System Center 2012 Configuration Manager - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/jj822981.aspx#BKMK_PlanningR2Upgrade Upgrading to System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 - Russ Rimmerman's blog post - http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgr_geek_speak/archive/2013/10/19/upgrading-to-system-center-configuration-manager-2012-r2.aspx Backup and Recovery in Configuration Manager - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712697.aspx Any other documentation that I should look at? Any advice, tips, tricks, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Joe Heaton Enterprise Server Support Information Technology Operations Branch Data and Technology Division CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1700 9th Street, 3rd Floor Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: 916-323-1284
