SCCM 2012 newly implementing

[prasadis]

Hi All,

 

I'm new to this forum and SCCM.We are planing to implement SCCM in our organisation of 10K + systems located across 3 geographical area and devided in to 2 seperate domains (trust relationship works). May need all your help in this task.

[P3nnyw1se]

I started out SCCM 2012 a year ago.. as completely inexperienced with backend stuff.

I now manage 150 employees using it.. its at times been frustrating, sometimes due to small misunderstandings, sometimes due to bugs.


Like I couldn't get a line of computers to boot into the windows PE, it said I needed a driver, so I gave the boot image the driver.
it kept saying it needed that driver.. at the end it turned out, even though I updated the boot image with the driver.
Sccm never actually replaced the old boot image, so I had to manually delete it and have it generate a new one.

Stuff like that may frustrate you, but when it works its nice

[forbess8]

I have a few questions regarding SCCM as I am very new to this :

 

What’s the difference between an SMS 2003/SCCM 2007/SCCM 2012 Primary and a Secondary server?

Where is the SMS/SCCM clients default installed location?

What is SMS/SCCM Discovery and what are the discovery methods?

What is the best process for deploying a package/application from scratch?

What client log file can be examined to determine the installation outcome of a deployed package/application?

Under SCCM 2012, how does the DP work?

I have searched white papers etc but there is so many.

[JagoWu]

Where is the SMS/SCCM clients default installed location? <--- C:\Windows\CCM. The setup is located at C:\Windows\ccmsetup

What is SMS/SCCM Discovery and what are the discovery methods? <-- Discovery is the method that SCCM uses to discover computer objects, user objects, and group objects in Active Directory.

What is the best process for deploying a package/application from scratch? <-- You should have a big drive share that is a pre-staging area per say when you initially place the packages then import them into SCCM. After that distribute them to your DP.

Under SCCM 2012, how does the DP work? <-- Simply put it is kinda of like a network share where the packages reside on that SCCM uses to send out to the clients.

What client log file can be examined to determine the installation outcome of a deployed package/application? <-- All client log files are located at C:\Windows\CCM\Logs. Each log pertains to different things.

See link https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh427342.aspx