Recently we have to restore SCCM SP2 primary site. Reason being restoring the server is moving of SCCM server from physical to virtual server.Thought to share experience with you guys.Here we go…
Below are the important points which needs to be taken care before restoring and moving SCCM site server.
- Make sure you have latest SCCM backup
- Make sure that server on which you’re restoring, should have same name as old server name.
- Restored path should be same as SCCM installed path*
- Server is installed with latest service pack and patches.
- How many clients supported by your site server?
- How much is the current disk space usage on your site server and site database?
- Estimated disk space usage in next 3 years
- How many secondary sites and protected distribution points your site server has?
- Does your site database is on site server or on remote server?
- How many virtual machines you would like to host on your virtual servers?
- If you don’t have group for SCCM site servers please create it first.
From the above points it will either prevent your restore from any accident or help you to plan for infrastructure
Let me share the steps involved in restoration, To understand easily, i have given server names
- SCCM site server :- ServerA (Physical)
- SCCM site database :- ServerB (Physical)
- New server Name :- ServerC (Virtual)
1) Take a backup of SCCM server
2) Uninstalled all the roles like, MP.DP,SUP,
3) Take backup of SCCM server
4) Rename ServerA to ServerX
5) Rename ServerC to ServerA
6) Add ServerA to site server group
7) Delete SCCM database from ServerB
9) Installed SCCM SP2 on ServerA and Site Database on ServerC. Make sure you are installing the server on the same path as of before.*
10) Run site repair wizard
11) Make sure you give SMSBackup folder path correct other wise it will give error.
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14) You can provide parent site name if you are restoring Primary site
15) It is essentials as because if pull all the changes from parent site which was happened after last backup
16) You need to provide password to connect to site server
17) You need to provide password to connect to site database
18) You can do verification of child sites
19) If you are creating a packages on the site server then you need to select first Radio button
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After restoration you need to verify all the logs for any errors and then go for installation of site roles.
To check the repair wizard log, please navigate to AdminUI folder
Thanks and Regards |Abhishek Joshi |www.AbhishekJoshi.com
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