Can you change a secondary site to a
primary site?
No. A secondary site is always a secondary site. It cannot be upgraded, moved, or changed without deleting it and reinstalling it. If you delete and reinstall, you lose all secondary site data.
No. A secondary site is always a secondary site. It cannot be upgraded, moved, or changed without deleting it and reinstalling it. If you delete and reinstall, you lose all secondary site data.
Can you distribute a package to a
computer without making it a member of a collection?
No. To distribute software you must
have a package, a program and an advertisement. Advertisements can only be sent
to collections, not to computers. If you want to distribute a package to a
single computer, you must create a collection for that computer.
What is Secondary Site?
Four Main characteristics:
- A Secondary Site does not have access to a Microsoft
SQL Database
- Secondary Sites are ALWAYS a Child Site of a Primary
Site and can only be administered via a Primary Site
- Secondary Sites cannot have Child Sites of their own
- Clients cannot be assigned directly to the Site
What is CENTRAL SITE?
A Central Site is a Configuration
Manager Primary Site that resides at the top of the Configuration Manager
hierarchy. All Database information rolls from the child to the parent and is
collected by the Central Site’s Configuration Manager Database. The Central
Site can administer any site below it in the hierarchy and can send data down
to those sites as well.
What is PRIMARY SITE?
Four main characteristics:
- The Site has access to a Microsoft SQL Server Database
- Can administer or be administered via the Configuration
Manager Console
- It can be a child of other Primary Sites and can have
Child Sites of its own
- Clients can be assigned directly to the Site
How do you install and configure
Secondary site server
http://exchangeserverinfo.com/2008/05/02/installation-and-configuration-of-secondary-site-server.aspx
How do you create a package for
Adobe?
the command line msiexec.exe
/q ALLUSERS=2 /m MSIHPSJR /i “AcroRead.msi” TRANSFORMS=mytransform.mst
How do you distribute a package?
- create a package in SCCM, pointing it to the
installation sources, and in the package create an install program (you
may have already done this?)
- assign Distribution Points to your package so the
contents get synched.
- create a Collection containing the objects
(users/computers) that are allowed to receive the package.
- create an Advertisement for the distribution, linking
the package you created to the collection, decide whether the Adverisement
is mandatory (installation enforced) or not (users have to go to the “Run
Advertised Programs” dialog in Windows and select to install the program)
How SCCM download the patches?
You need to add the Software Update
Point site role to the site, configure the software update point as active,
configure the products, classifications, sync settings, etc. in the Software
Update Point properties. THEN, you can go to the Update Repository node
and run the Run Synchronization action from the central primary site.
Once synchronization completes, you will see the metadata in the
Configuration Manager console.
How do you configure the
SUP?
In the Configuration Manager
console, navigate to System CenterConfiguration Manager / Site
Database /Site Management / <site
code> – <site name> / Site
Settings / Site Systems
Right-click the site system server
name, and then click New Roles.
Select Software update point, and
then click Next.
Specify whether the site server will
use a proxy server when connecting to the software update point, and then clickNext.
Select Use this server as
the active software update point, and then specify the port settings
configured for the WSUS Web site on this site system.
Specify the synchronization source
for the active software update point using one of the following
settings: like Synchronize from Microsoft Update or Synchronize
from an upstream update server
Keep the default setting Do
not create WSUS reporting events, and then click Next
Specify whether to synchronize
software updates on a schedule by selecting Enable synchronization on a
schedule
Specify the update classifications
for which the software updates will be synchronized, and then click Next.
Specify the products for which the
software updates will be synchronized, and then click Next.
Open SUPSetup.log in
<InstallationPath>\Logs to monitor the installation progress for
the software update point. When the installation completes, Installation
was successful is written to the log file.
Open WCM.log in
<InstallationPath>\Logs to verify that the connection to the WSUS
server was successful.
How do you Backup SCCM Server?
To create a scheduled backup task,
expand the Site Settings node and expand the Site Maintenance node, click on
Tasks.
For Manual backup –
Start SMS_SITE_BACKUP service
What are the client deployments
methods?
Client Push Installion, Software
update point based installation, Group Policy Installation, Logon Script
Installation, Manual Installation, Upgrade Installation(software Distribution)
Can you discover clients those are
in different AD forest?
yes.
Internet-based client management, which supports the following site systems installed in a separate forest to the site server:
Management point
Distribution point
Software update point
Fallback status point
Internet-based client management, which supports the following site systems installed in a separate forest to the site server:
Management point
Distribution point
Software update point
Fallback status point
What are the prerequisite for
Software Update Point?
Windows Server Update Services
(WSUS) 3.0, WSUS 3.0 Administration Console, Windows Update Agent (WUA)
3.0,Site server communication to the active software update point,Network Load
Balancing (NLB),Background Intelligent Transfer Server (BITS) 2.5,Windows
Installer
What is SMS Provider?
The SMS Provider is a WMI provider
that allows both read and write access to the Configuration Manager 2007 site
database. The SMS Provider is used by the Configuration Manager console
The SMS Provider can be installed on the site database server computer, site server computer or another server class third computer during Configuration Manager 2007 Setup. After setup has completed, the current installed location of the SMS Provider is displayed on the site properties general tab
The SMS Provider can be installed on the site database server computer, site server computer or another server class third computer during Configuration Manager 2007 Setup. After setup has completed, the current installed location of the SMS Provider is displayed on the site properties general tab
What is ITMU?
SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for
Microsoft Updates
What is the use of WSUS (Windows
Server Update Service)?
It enables administrators to deploy
the latest Microsoft product updates to computers that are running the Windows
operating system.
Difference between SMS 2003 and SCCM
2007
What is WMI (indows Management
Instrumentation)?
You can write WMI scripts or applications to automate administrative tasks on remote computers
You can write WMI scripts or applications to automate administrative tasks on remote computers
What is SUP ( Software Update
Point)?
This is required component of
software updates, and after it is installed, the SUP is displayed as a site
system role in the Configuration Manager console. The software update point
site system role must be created on a site system server that has Windows
Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 installed.
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You want specific users\groups to
run specific custom reports. What should you do?
Navigate to “System Center Configuration Manager – Site Database – Security Rights – Users”
Right click on “Users” and select “Manage ConfigMgr Users”
Navigate to the “SCCM Support” group you created earlier
Navigate to “System Center Configuration Manager – Site Database – Security Rights – Users”
Right click on “Users” and select “Manage ConfigMgr Users”
Navigate to the “SCCM Support” group you created earlier
- For “Collection” – “(All Instances)” add the following:
- “Delete resource”
- “Modify resource”
- “Read”
- “Read resource”
- “Use remote tools” - For “Report” – “(All Instances)” add the following:
- “Read” - For “Computer association” – “(All Instances)” add the
following:
- “Create”
- “Delete”
- “Read”
- “Recover user state” - Click “Next”
- Click “Next”
- Click “Close”
You have been provided with
permissions on the SCCM console to create, distribute, modify and delete
packages? However, when distributing a package there is no
Distribution points listed in the Distribution Point Wizard. What should
you do?
To designate a distribution point on a new server or server share
To designate a distribution point on a new server or server share
- In the Configuration Manager console, navigate to System
CenterConfiguration Manager / Site Database / Site
Management / <site name> / Site
Settings.
- Right-click Site Systems, point to
New, and then click Server or Server Share, depending on which you want to
create.
- If you are creating a new server, use the New
Site System Server Wizard to create the site system server, and
select the Distribution Point check box from the Available
Roles on the System Role Selection page to
designate this server as a distribution point.
What are the required ports used by
Configuration Manager?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb632618.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb632618.aspx
You distributed a software
application to some systems in your environment and few are failed, how do
u troubleshoot the failure? what steps you will follow on client side and site
server side? How SCCM clients come to know that they have to use SCCM
WSUS?
How certificates created in SCCM and
what they called?
How SCCM Communicate securely between sites? And where do you define that setting? what you will keep in mind before configuring SCCM server to manage clients.
What are the causes for a slow Configuration Manager Console connection and what would you do to make your Configuration Manager Console users’ experience better?
How SCCM Communicate securely between sites? And where do you define that setting? what you will keep in mind before configuring SCCM server to manage clients.
What are the causes for a slow Configuration Manager Console connection and what would you do to make your Configuration Manager Console users’ experience better?
SCCM
Interview Questions 2013
·
What is the purpose of extended AD schema?
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What are MP, SLP and DP?
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Why we are using BITS?
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If client is not reporting data/info then which point is falls
under?
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If we want to advertisement a package in a single client then
how do to that?
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How to create collections?
·
What is feature of SCCM 2k7? – Internet based client, OSD and
Wake on LAN.
·
Where the SMS server and client log file will be store?
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What is the direct collection membership?
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What is the wake on LAN?
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What is the pre-requisites of SCCM 2k7?
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What is Wake on LAN and how it’s works?
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What is OSD? And what are the options available?
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What is diff. between WSUS & ITMU?
·
If pkg is not reaching the secondary server then what could be a
issue?
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What is NAP?
·
What are the issue faced while distribute the package from
primary server to secondary server?
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Which tool are you using to monitor SMS server?
·
What kind of major issues face on the client side?
·
What is the different between pkg refresh and update, where the
changes will be happen, how the pkg version will be change?
·
What is the SMS version are you using, ITMU version?
·
How MP and DP identified client? Is it possible client can send
inventory report to server if AD not extended?
·
When AD extended in the SMS server there are entry will be added
in the AD, what is that?
·
What are the pre-requisites for SMS 2k3 installation?
·
If DP doesn’t work then where we need to look and which are the
log files will you refer?26) How the clients send the info to MP? If it is WMI
then which file send the info to WMI?27) What is the procedure to deploy pkg to
client and how it works?
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Which log file will indicate if SMS client install successfully?
·
What is the sender address? Classification of sender, if you use
Standard sender then why we are using it?
·
What are the role will you enable in the Central Site?
·
Different between Primary and Secondary site?
·
What is the reason we are enabling reporting point in Central
Site?
·
What is the flow of pkg distribution?
·
Some of the clients are not getting patch installed? What could
be a reason and how to find out those clients and troubleshoot?
·
What are the logs need to look client and server side?
·
How to client communicate with server?
·
Through which port client getting download file from server?
·
How did you know that the particular patch reached client or
not?
·
How many MP and DP can we enable a single site?
·
When the default profile will be loading in AD user &
computers while install SMS? What are the profile names?
·
Why are we using SQL2005 enterprise edition? What is the
advantage of that and there are major changes/ Configuration need to be done
during the SQL 2005 installation, what is that?
·
Scenario: we have a one Forest and two Domain’s, how the SMS
communicate with them if so, how to configure in boundaries?
·
There are 4 methods to view the logs and to do troubleshoot
also.
·
What are the discovery methods available?
·
What is the default schedule time for AD system discovery
method?
·
Which .exe file will use for SMS client installation?
·
After SMS client installation, there is a one exe will be
running continuously, what is that?
·
If the client machine not in the domain then how the SMS server
communicate and install SMS client?
·
Scenario: Total hosts: 20001500 clients assigned status is ‘Yes’
and 500 client status is ‘No’ even all the client got installed SMS client.
What are the troubleshoot steps to be followed for resolving the issue?
·
How to know that the particular application is running on client
machine?
·
What are the default collections available in SMS?
·
Can you tell two resource ids? Resource id, Resource Value,
Resource type and system resource.
·
How to advertisement goes to client?
·
Which logs should look when communication happen from primary to
secondary? Hman.log and hierarchy manager
·
Site to site communication? Sitecomp.log, hman.log
·
How will you check client health status?
·
What are the steps needs to be following if a pkg needs to
distribute production environment?
·
There is a one site and it has 100 clients, needs to be deployed
one pkg to 10 clients? How will you create a collection?
·
There is a pkg and it will be rebooting after install the
application. Needs to be suppressing the reboot function in the program?
·
What kind of client installation method are you using?
·
We have a 1000 client and 800 clients are installed SMS client,
200 client not installed. What could be a reason? 61) Why we need to extend AD?
What is the name of file?
·
What is SLP, BITS, Difference b/w primary and secondary server,
native mode and mixed mode , what is advantage using this
·
Does internet based client support mixed mode? No64) What is DP
and BDP, hw will backup SCCM, difference b/w SMS and SCCM 65) How to configure
software metering for particular package?
·
Deployed one package to 10k client, however 1500 machines got
failed, how will troubleshoot?
·
What are the sites roles configured?
·
What is desire configure management? Why are we using it?
·
What are the features avail in SCCM
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OSD- how will create a OS
·
What are the reports will pullout from SCCM
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What are the components avail in SCCM
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Diff b/w native mode and mixed mode
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How will setup new SCCM environment
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What is BDP, what are the roles avail in SCCM &their
function
·
What is H/W inventory log file and server log files
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Diff b/w ITMU & WSUS
·
What are the service are running on SCCM server and client –
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What is SMS execute
·
What is SMS_site_component_manager
·
SMS_site_SQL_backup, SMS_Reporting point,
SMS_server_locator_point, SMS_task_sequencer_agent, SMS_agent_host
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What are the package can distribute through ITMU or WSUS – all
Microsoft package, hot fixes, patch, Service pack
·
ConfigMgr does not allow for incremental or differential backups
and it always adopts a “full backup” approach i.e. it backs up everything that
is needed to reinstall a site completely
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