mhourshad Posted April 23, 2012 Report post Posted April 23, 2012 Does anyone have a suggestion on what would be the best way to upgrade SCCM clients. I am not planning on doing a migration of data and the Site code will be changing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhourshad Posted April 24, 2012 Report post Posted April 24, 2012 For the record, I want to basically start from scratch with my SCCM hierarchy. Quite possibly I might be overthinking it, but if the existing 2007 SCCM clients are associated with the 2007 site they wont talk to the 2012 Primary site...right? The boundaries are going to be the same between 2007 and 2012 (via IP subnet). So as far as the client upgrade method, I'm not sure what will be the best method. Maybe via Group Policy or login script since I dont want to keep the 2007 server online longer than I need to. Opinions??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brand Posted April 24, 2012 Report post Posted April 24, 2012 I basically did what you are describing and just used client push to deploy the client to the computers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhourshad Posted April 25, 2012 Report post Posted April 25, 2012 Thanks Brand! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Murphy Posted April 25, 2012 Report post Posted April 25, 2012 I am in the same boat, but would like to use a startup script. Anyone have some tips/tricks to make it work? I'm mainly concerned with the command line stuff - ccmsetup.exe /mp:yourmp smssitecode=site ... What should I use? Murf Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elemanzer Posted April 27, 2012 Report post Posted April 27, 2012 If you run a startup script, what would happen if someone restarts during the day. Can't you just select all and install client? After an hour you would see what has been installed and what is left. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidRandall Posted April 27, 2012 Report post Posted April 27, 2012 Steve, if you have your clients already running and fully functional in ConfigMgr 2007, then you can create a package in ConfigMgr 2007 with the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager client files. Then, you can create an advertisement and target the sets of clients that you want to move over to Configuration Manager on a schedule that you manage. Your command line would need to contain (at a minimum) the parameters: /MP:<servername> /upgrade SMSMP=<servername> SMSSITECODE=<sitecode>. You would replace <servername> with the hostname of your management point, and <sitecode> with the sitecode of your System Center 2012 Configuration Manager site. The following page provides more information about the methods of client installation, and why you might choose one method over another. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682191.aspx Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PR. Posted April 30, 2012 Report post Posted April 30, 2012 I did this without any major problems. My CM2007 was essentially broken so I set up a GPO object to switch the site code to the new CM2012 server and enabled push install to all client to allow them to auto update as they switched over to the new site. Only issue I had was a couple of machines are still running XP SP2 which CM2012 doesn't support. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
