How to install System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SC2012CM RC- Release Candidate) and System Center 2012 EndPoint Protection (SC2012EP).
Hi all,
In this post , i explain how to install System Center 2012
Configuration Manager (SC2012CM RC- Release Candidate ) and System Center
2012 EndPoint Protection (SC2012EP) .
What's SC2012CM RC:
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 helps IT empower people
to use the devices and applications they need to be productive, while
maintaining corporate compliance and control.
What's news in this release:
- Improved endpoint protection functionality, with
integrated setup, management and reporting for System Center 2012
Endpoint Protection.
- Improved application catalog
design that provides a better, more responsive experience when
requesting and downloading applications.
- New
support for Windows Embedded devices, including Windows Embedded 7 SP1,
POSReady 7, Windows 7 Think PC, and Windows Embedded Compact 7.
- Improved client status checks for Configuration Manager services and features.
- Improved
compliance enforcement and tracking, with the ability to create dynamic
collections of baseline compliance and the generation of hourly
compliance summaries.
- Platform support for deep
mobile device management of Nokia Symbian Belle devices. Pending a
platform update by Nokia later this calendar year for these devices,
customers will be able to try out the management of these Nokia devices
with ConfigMgr.
- Additional scalability and performance improvements.
What's System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection :
- System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection (previously known as
Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012) protects client and server operating
systems against the latest threats using industry-leading malware
detection technologies. It is built on System Center 2012 Configuration
Manager, giving customers a unified infrastructure for client security
and compliance management. This shared infrastructure lowers ownership
costs while providing improved visibility through user-centric malware
reporting and control over endpoint management and security.
New features in the release candidate include:
- Support for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, including integrated setup, management, and reporting.
- Role-based management across security and operations.
- Improved alerting and reporting, with near real-time and user-centric data views.
- More efficient delivery of signature updates using new automatic software deployment model.
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Let's GO:
In first time, download SCCM 2012 RC1 HERE 
1 Active Directory Domain controller
1 Server for SCCM 2012
Minimum System Requirements (base):
·
To support database replication in a hierarchy
with mixed site server operating system languages, the SQL Server instance in
use at each site must use the following collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.
·
When you have a standalone primary site, or when
each site server in your hierarchy runs on the same operating system language,
the SQL Server instance can uses the collation of SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
or the default collation for the operating system language.
Others components required:
IIS roles , Framework 4.0 etc...for read all prerequisite and supported configurations, click
HERE
Launch Setup.exe and select Install
Click Next
Select Install a configuration Primary Site Server and click Next
Insert number licence, accept licence terms and click Next
Indicate the download source path and click ok
Click Next
In my example, i select MAR for Site Code and put this information for Site Name (Primary Site SCCM 2012 RC1) and click Next
Let default Installation folder and Install Admin console
Select Primary Site will be installed as a standalone site click Next
Click Yes
Click Next
Click Next
Select Site roles can be individually enabled to allow either HTTP or HTTPS client communication and click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
The prerequisite Check start and indicate if you miss install a component for SCCM 2012 and click Begin Install
Install in progress...
Install is finish!!! you can see the log files with the View log Option tab
Select the ConfigMgr Console shorcut and launch...
Great jobs for the SCCM 2012 console to Microsoft Team !!!!!
