Configmgr 2012 R2 Cumulative Update 1 released today(Mar 28,2014), to know more about this update,refer http://eskonr.com/2014/03/configmgr-2012-r2-cumulative-update-cu1-released/
Installation of any Cumulative Update is straight forward process (so Far) by clicking Next,Next ,Next and is simple to consider but you should be cautious before doing the upgrade like taking up the backup of Configmgr and should be recent one,make sure your site is running in good condition.
My Lab Hierarchy Consists of 1 Primary,1 Secondary and 2 Distribution points with several clients. all servers running on windows server 2012 OS.
What is the Hierarchy to install the Update ? You should come from top to bottom (Means from CAS if you have, else Primary to secondary’s).
You can install this Update on the following:
- Central Administrative Site
- Primary Site (Standalone)
- Secondary Site(Hierarchy)
- Provider and Console
I have divided this task into 2 posts 1) How to install Configmgr 2012 R2 CU1 on Primary Site 2) How to install Configmgr 2012 R2 CU1 on Secondary Site and upgrade Clients.
so,we are now ready to upgrade Primary Site to CU1 after having good backup of Site.Make sure you close the Configmgr Console connections if any.
Here is my Primary Site properties.You might be wondering why did i capture the screenshot,This is not because to check the Version of Site is updated to New(of course it is one of the Reason) but also compare if any Information available in the Properties of Primary site about what is the CU level and What version are we running like R2 etc as you might have seen in Configmgr 2007 about R2 or R3 etc in Site Properties.
R2 running on Version:5.00.7958.1000.
Download the Hotfix,Unzip and install CM12-R2CU1-KB2938441-X64-ENU.exe.
From above,you can notice that, Where all you can install this Update on and what
Small Prerequisite Check
you can also check the log what is happening on the backend ,log located at:C:\windows\temp\cm12-r2cu1-kb2938441-x64-enu.log
Click Next
Select ,Yes,Update the Database
this step will create packages with programs which you can deploy to other configuration manager systems like SMS provider,Console and clients.
By Default,It will select the default location ,if you want to provide custom name,you can do so but i like the default options.
This package is for Configmgr Admin Console.
This package is for X86 and X64 clients.
we are done with most of the steps, and ready to start the installation.
Click Next
Installation Started ,meantime start looking at log file to see the progress ,log at C:\windows\temp\cm12-r2cu1-kb2938441-x64-enu.log
back to the installation wizard,setup completed. (It took 15 min to complete the setup wizard)
Click Next
We have successfully installed CU1 on Primary Site.
Before you open the Configmgr Console,lets have a look at folder structure for the packages what has been created during the installation.
Browse to your Configmgr installation Directory F:\SCCM\hotfix\KB2938441
so you basically have 4 packages created 1) Console 2) clients 3) Update Publisher 4)Site servers
you can see these packages created in Console.
How do you check What version of CU level applied onto the Site server ? You can find this using Registry Key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Setup with CULevel=1
Now lets open the Console and see what has been changed to the console ?
Check the properties of Primary Site
Go to administration node—Site configuration –Sites—right click on Primary Site,properties,
If you compare the above pic and the one which we capture before we upgrade to CU1,both are same.there are no changes with respect to displaying the CU information in Site properties but lets check the console if it has updated or not.
From the Console ,on the top Left Corner,click on about Configuration manager
As you can see,the Version is changed to .1203
so we are done with Installation of Configmgr 2012 R2 CU1 on primary Site and verified it is successfully installed by looking at Registry Key and also from admin Console.
As this hotfix also has some updates to boot images,you should also require to update all Boot Images to Distribution Points,for more info on this,refer http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2938441/en-us
Note:You do not have to restart the computer after you apply this update.
Next part,we will see how to Update Secondary Sites,Consoles and Clients http://eskonr.com/2014/03/how-to-install-configmgr-2012-r2-cu1-part-2/
How to Install Configmgr 2012 R2 CU1 Part 1 is a post from: Eswar Koneti's Blog