Showing posts with label System Center Unified Installer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label System Center Unified Installer. Show all posts

Monday, July 2, 2012

System Center 2012 Unified Installer is working now

System Center 2012 Unified Installer is a utility designed to perform new, clean installations of System Center 2012 for testing and evaluation purposes only. With the Unified Installer it's possible to install all System Center products at once, without the need to install a single product multiple times. That way products can be installed quicker and less screens are needed to install them. 

Last week I started the installation again because of the new RTM release. Just prepare your install and target computer with local policies, as mentioned in the comments and on Microsoft TechNet: 
Preparing an Installer Computer for System Center 2012
Preparing a Target Computer for System Center 2012

Also use the steps mentioned by ThomasH mentioned in my other blogpost: Using the System Center 2012 Unified Installer

Computer Config \ Administrative Templates \ System \ Credentials Delegation \ Allow Delegating Fresh Credentials
State = Enabled
Server = WSMAN/*

Computer Config \ Administrative Templates \ System \ Credentials Delegation \ Allow Delegating Fresh Credentials with NTLM only server Authentication
State = Enabled
Server = WSMAN/*

Computer Config \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Remote Management (WinRM) \ WinRM Client \ Allow CredSSP authentication
State = Enabled

Computer Config \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Remote Management (WinRM) \ WinRM Client \ Trusted Hosts
State = Enabled
TrustedHostList = *

Computer Config \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Remote Management (WinRM) \ WinRM Service \ Allow Automatic Configuration of listeners
State = Enabled
IPv4 filter = *
IPv6 filter = *

Computer Config \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Remote Management (WinRM) \ WinRM Service \ Allow CredSSP authentication
State = Enabled


In a command prompt, run:
gpupdate
Winrm quickconfig


Very handy in "Prerequisite Media Location" is the download link for every prerequisite!

When the error message "The WinRM settings are not configured correctly" is displayed, look at the log \Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft System Center 2012\Unified Installer\LOGS for more information!

During installation the following screens are displayed:
In this case I'm only installing Orchestrator (which is mandatory), Operations Manager and Configuration Manager 2012.

Orchestrator will be installed first because of runbook functionality

All needed prerequisites will be installed first at the same time

All selected System Center products are successfully installed now!
After that a nice Deployment Summary Report is displayed.

Conclusion: The System Center 2012 Unified Installer is an easy way to setup a demo environment quickly. It's working when you download all products and prerequisites and prepare all your servers! Too bad it's not possible to use a single SQL Server installation, it will be installed for all products selected. But it's for sure a handy solution!