Installation and Configuration of Secondary Site Server - SCCM 2007

In my last article you saw how to install primary site server, if you haven’t read my last article two click here

• Introduction to SCCM 2007
• Installation of System Center Configuration Manager 2007

In this article we will see how to install Secondary Site Server and configure it.

As per my last article, my Current Topology is:

• I have 2 sites: Europe.com & site2.Europe.com and both of them are in different subnet mask.
• I have one DC\GC\DNS server in each site.
• I have one Primary Server (SCCM) in Europe.com

My Requirements:
For my site2.europe.com I need to have one Secondary Site Server. For this I got one computer in the site2.europe.com and computer name is Secondary.Site2.Europe.com

Fine as you all know secondary server doesn’t require any sql database, basically it will report to primary server of my Europe.com and very important things here is DNS, AD communication should work fine and proper permission need to be assigned before we go ahead and install secondary server.

Note: For secondary Server you won’t get any console either you need to access it from Central Site Server if you have or Primary Site Server.

My DNS I guess it should work fine because I tested it already

Now lets start the setup process…

1) The very first thing we need to do is installing IIS, This IIS installation is optional you might require it or might not but for me yes I require this. The main reason for this, I want all my 192.168.0.x (site2.Europe.com) should communicate to this secondary site and it should manage all the clients which are falling under Site2.Europe.com. So at the time of installing management point, it will create a virtual directory that is the reason I required to have it. I installed IIS as per my requirement. Enabled Bits and allowed the web application
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2) Delegation of Permission:  Delegation of permission require for Domain Administrator & SCCM Computers i.e Primary & Secondary Server. Delegation of permission to be done on Domain Level, Computer Level & SCCM User Group level.
    Domain Level:
                         Open Active Directory Users & Computers (Europe.com)
                         Right click Europe.com and click on Delegate Computer and give full control.
                         Confirm that Europe\Administrator, Site\Administrator, Primary Computer and Secondary Computer have full access
                         Follow the above step to grant permission on child site (site2.Europe.com)
 
    Logon to Primary Server:
                         Right Click my Computer & Manage
                         Local users & Group
                         Click on Administrator
                         Confirm Europe\Administrator & Site2\Administrator Added
                         Add the Secondary Server into the Administrator Group
                         And under the same local users and group, double click SMS_SitetoSiteConnection_PRI and add the secondary computer name.
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    Logon to Secondary Server
                     Right Click my Computer & Manage
                     Local users & Group
                     Click on Administrator
                     Add Europe\Administrator, Site2\Administrator, Primary Computer Name.
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Now log on to Secondary Server with Schema Administrator rights user and try to extend the schema by running this 
                 Log on to Secondary Server.
                 Insert the SCCM 2007 Disk into CD drive
                 Click on Start => Run => locate this file D:\SMSSETUP\BIN\I386\EXTADSCH.EXE and hit OK

Reason: In the forest level it has already ran but before we install Secondary Site Server and try to extend the schema, it should show us successful. This information will confirm us that we have got all necessary privileges and permission.

                 Install Msxml6.msi : download click here.

Now we confirm that whether we have met the prerequisite and then we will install SCCM 2007:
Checking the prerequisite status:
                 Log on to Secondary Server
                 Run the SCCM 2007 soft copy
                 It will display the below screen
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                 Click on Run the Prerequisite checker, it will ask which sort of server we are configuring, select secondary site.
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                 It should display the status as success
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Now select Auto play and then select Configuration Manager 2007 under install
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Once you click on “configuration manager 2007: it will pop-up with welcome message showing the prerequisite requirement just click on NEXT
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Then select “Install a configuration Manager Site Server
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Then EULA page will come: Select I agree (there is no other option left for us)

Then select custom settings:
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Once click on next you will see the option of selecting the Site Type: Either Primary or Secondary, so select Secondary Site
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Then it will ask for the location of folder where it wants to create and configure the SCCM file. By default it will choose the location of C drive,
Figure 12:
 

Now the next screen will be Site Setting, Site setting is nothing but what will be your code for this Server and friendly name to be recognized in the SCCM console. Code should be of 3 characters, I have given the code for this server as SEC and friendly name as Secondary Site Server for Europe Region
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Now once you click on next it will ask for which primary site you want to make this server as secondary site server – so here we will give the primary site server code and server name information
Figure 14:
 

Now the next screen is updated prerequisite component : In this place you need to have your computer i.e Secondary to be online in the internet and select “Check for updates and download newer version” This will download the 88 updates into your local drive. OR copy those updates from Primary Server
I have already downloaded so I will select the second option: “The latest updates have already been downloaded to an alternate path”
Path of my updates: C:\Downlaods
Figure 15:
 
if you have downloaded the updates then select the 2nd option
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After this you will setting summary, click on next
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After this setup will evaluate the setting in our system then it will check for prerequisite and then click on begin install:
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Then it will begin install:
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Tips: When we are doing installation, we don’t know how is the setup progress going apart from this GUI, we can see ConfigMgrSetup.log, This log file is stored in the C root drive which you can see and this will help  us for troubleshooting step.
After the completion of setup it will look like this:
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Then click on Next and Finish the installation.

How to Confirm whether our Secondary Site Server is installed and it is reporting to  Primary Site Server

Now when you right click on My computer => Manage => Local Users and Group => Group : you will see three more groups – SMS Admin, SMS_sitesystemtoSiteServer and SitetoSiteConnection

Under Active Diretory Users and computer (site2.europe.com) => System Management you will see secondary Site Server information

Finally Log on to Primary Server
     Open the SCCM Console
     Expand Site Database
     Expand Site Management
     Expand Primary site server
     Under this you should see the secondary site server
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Configuring Manage Point Service:

By default when we install secondary site server – it will have following roles
     Component Server
     Distribution point
     Site server
     Site system
Figure 22:

 

Inorder to install it – as per the above figure we need to click on New Roles:
Figure 23:

 
In the above screen I have given the name of Secocndary.site2.europe.com and click on next
Then select “Management Point”
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Then it will prompt you to make it as default: select Yes

Then select “Allow devices to use this management point and click next

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Then it will show you the summary click on next and finally it will install.

Once it gets installed we should see the Management point virtual directory in the IIS of the secondary site server. But its depend upon the replication time and packets send from primary to secondary site. If it is taking long time then we can do small workaround.

Installation of Management Point on the secondary site server itself

 Log on to Secondary Site Server
 Locate to this location : C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\bin\i386 and search for MP.Msi
 Double click that one and install MP
Now let see the IIS virtual directory
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Now we are done with installing the MP.

I hope that this article is being very informative to you all. Thanks for your time in this matter.

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