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Morning, I have the opportunity to upgrade my SCCM 2012 SP1 server base OS to Server 2012. In addition, I now have the capacity to spread the load of the SCCM server across multiple SCCM servers. But before I dive in, I would like to know a few things that do not seem to be well documented. Has anyone tried to Upgrade a Server 2008 R2 to a Server 2012, with said server being an SCCM 2012 server? What were Your results\impressions? Would it be better to setup new servers instead? I aim to spread the various SCCM functions over several machines (until now, 1 server has been doing ALL the SCCM tasks) I know its possible to export the Task Sequences, but is it possible to export the Device and User lists from one SCCM to another? How would this affect the SCCM Clients? Can the backup data be used for this? My goal is to have 1 main server With the main roles, a Distribution/Update server, a Reporting & Catalog server and then the Fallback server. All will be running Server 2012. This is one site with a Device and user Count of 2000. Cheers and thanks in advance! Anthony

Hello, I have a problem installing SCCM 2012 on the SQL 2008 R2 cluster. When it goes through the prerequisites, and I specify my SQL server, it connects fine, but when it comes to creating the database on the server it fails, saying that it can’t connect to the server. I tried a different approach and installed a local copy of SQL 2008 R2. SCCM installed fine. I moved the database to the SQL cluster, tried to re-point to use cluster and it failed again. Here is some log from the attempt to re-point to cluster: INFO: SQL Connection succeeded. Connection: clustername.domain MASTER, Type: Unsecure $$<Configuration Manager Setup><04-27-2012 10:32:34.107-60><thread=4056 (0xFD8)> INFO: SQL Server clustername.domain is clustered. $$<Configuration Manager Setup><04-27-2012 10:32:34.193-60><thread=4056 (0xFD8)> *** [08001][-2146893022][Microsoft] SSL Provider: The target principal name is incorrect.~~ $$<Configuration Manager Setup><04-27-2012 10:32:34.202-60><thread=4056 (0xFD8)>*** [08001][-2146893022][Microsoft][sql Server Native Client 10.0]Client unable to establish connection $$<Configuration Manager Setup><04-27-2012 10:32:34.202-60><thread=4056 (0xFD8)> *** Failed to connect to the SQL Server. $$<Configuration Manager Setup><04-27-2012 10:32:34.202-60><thread=4056 (0xFD8)> INFO: SQL Connection failed. Connection: SMS ACCESS, Type: Secure $$<Configuration Manager Setup><04-27-2012 10:32:34.202-60><thread=4056 (0xFD8)> I tried to connect using the ODBC connection, name resolution and it was ok. Then I tried to use IP address instead of the name and I also used domain admin account and the same result. I would appreciate your help.