Welcome to the SCCM 2012 SP1 Lab setup, this post includes the information that i will be using throughout this series to deploy the SCCM 2012 SP1. This is the second series on deploying system center configuration manager, the previous one included the posts on deploying system center configuration manager 2012. In this deployment series we will see the new features of SCCM 2012 SP1, new examples and more interesting things. The lab setup is very simple and includes the following machines.

1) AD.PRAJWAL.LOCAL – This will be our Domain controller where the AD DS services will be running, the same machine will be our DNS server and DHCP server too.  The server will be installed with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise edition OS and will  have a static IP of 192.168.100.1 /24. The name of the domain will be PRAJWAL.LOCAL.

2) SCCM.PRAJWAL.LOCAL – This server will host SCCM 2012 SP1, SQL server 2008 R2 and WSUS. The server will be installed with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise edition OS and will  have a IP 192.168.100.2 /24.

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3) CLIENT1.PRAJWAL.LOCAL -This is a  client machine that will joined to the PRAJWAL.LOCAL domain. The OS installed is windows 7 professional x64 bit and has IP 192.168.100.3 /24.

4) CLIENT2.PRAJWAL.LOCAL – This is a  client machine that will joined to the PRAJWAL.LOCAL domain. The OS installed is windows 8 enterprise  x64 bit and has IP 192.168.100.4 /24.

SCCM 2012 SP1 Lab Setup

 

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