Use the information in the following sections to help you
upgrade your System Center 2012
Configuration Manager site and hierarchy to a new service pack
successfully.
Pre-Upgrade Configurations for
Configuration Manager Sites
Before you upgrade a site to a new service pack, review
the applicable upgrade checklist to understand any pre-upgrade
configurations that the site or hierarchy requires. Additionally,
plan to record details about any configurations and settings that
you use and that do not persist after an upgrade to that service
pack version.
For more information about pre-upgrade tasks and
configurations, see the applicable sections in the Planning to Upgrade
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager topic.
For upgrades to Configuration Manager SP1:
Test the Configuration Manager
Site Database for the Upgrade
Before you upgrade a site, test a copy of that site’s
database for the upgrade.
To test the database for an upgrade, you first restore
a copy of the site database to an instance of SQL Server that
does not host a Configuration Manager site. The version of
SQL Server that you use to host the database copy must be a
version of SQL Server that the version of Configuration
Manager supports that is the source of the database copy.
Next, after you restore the site database, on the
SQL Server computer, run Configuration Manager Setup from the
Configuration Manager service pack media, with the
/TESTDBUPGRADE command-line option.
Use the following procedure on each central
administration site and primary site that you plan to upgrade.
To test a Configuration Manager
site database for upgrade
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Make a copy of the site database, and then restore that
copy to an instance of SQL Server that uses the same edition
as your site database and that does not host a Configuration
Manager site. For example, if the site database runs on an instance
of the Enterprise edition of SQL Server, make sure you restore
the database to an instance of SQL Server that also runs the
Enterprise edition of SQL Server.
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After you restore the database copy, run Setup from the
Configuration Manager SP1 source media. When you run Setup,
use the /TESTDBUPGRADE command-line option. If the
SQL Server instance that hosts the database copy is not the
default instance, you must also provide the command-line arguments
to identify the instance that hosts the site database copy.
For example, you plan to upgrade a site database with
the database name SMS_ABC. You restore a copy of this site database
to a supported instance of SQL Server with the instance name
DBTest. To test an upgrade of this copy of the site database, use
the following command line: Setup.exe /TESTDBUPGRADE
DBtest\CM_ABC
You can find Setup.exe in the following location on the
source media for Configuration Manager SP1:
SMSSETUP\BIN\X64.
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On the instance of SQL Server where you run the
database upgrade test, monitor the ConfigMgrSetup.log in the root
of the system drive for progress and success:
- If the test upgrade fails, resolve any issues
related to the site database upgrade failure, create a new backup
of the site database, and then test the upgrade of the new copy of
the site database.
- After the process is successful, you can
delete the database copy.
 Note |
| It is not supported to restore the copy of the site database
that you use for the test upgrade for use as a site database at any
site. |
After you successfully upgrade a copy of the site
database, proceed with the upgrade of the Configuration Manager
site and its site database.
Upgrade a Configuration Manager
Site
After you complete pre-upgrade configurations for your
site, test the upgrade of the site database on a database copy, and
download prerequisite files and language packs for the service pack
version that you plan to install, you are ready to upgrade your
Configuration Manager site.
When you upgrade a site in a hierarchy, you upgrade the
top-level site of the hierarchy first. This top-level site is
either a central administration site or a stand-alone primary site.
After the upgrade of a central administration site is completed,
you can upgrade child primary sites in any order that you want.
After you upgrade a primary site, you can upgrade that site’s child
secondary sites, or upgrade additional primary sites before you
upgrade any secondary sites.
To upgrade a central administration site or primary
site, you run Setup from the Configuration Manager service pack
media. However, you do not run Setup to upgrade secondary sites.
Instead, you use the Configuration Manager console to upgrade a
secondary site after you complete the upgrade of its primary parent
site.
Before you upgrade a site, close the Configuration
Manager console that is installed on the site server until after
the site upgrade is completed. Also close each Configuration
Manager console that runs on computers other than the site server.
You can reconnect the console after the site upgrade is completed.
However, until you upgrade a Configuration Manager console to
Configuration Manager SP1, that console cannot display some
objects and information that are available in Configuration
Manager SP1.
Use the following procedures to upgrade Configuration
Manager sites:
To upgrade a central administration
site or primary site
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Verify that the user who runs Setup has the following
security rights:
- Local Administrator rights on the site server
computer.
- Local Administrator rights on the remote site
database server for the site, if it is remote.
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On the site server computer, open Windows Explorer and
browse to
<ConfigMgrServicePackInstallationMedia>\SMSSETUP\BIN\X64.
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Double-click Setup.exe. The Configuration
Manager Setup wizard opens.
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On the Before You Begin page, click
Next.
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On the Getting Started page, select Upgrade
this Configuration Manager site, and then click
Next.
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On the Product Key page, click Next.
If you previously installed Configuration Manager
Evaluation, you can select Install the licensed edition of this
product, and then enter your product key for the full
installation of Configuration Manager to convert the site to the
full version.
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On the Microsoft Software License Terms page,
read and accept the license terms, and then click Next.
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On the Prerequisite Licenses page, read and
accept the license terms for the prerequisite software, and then
click Next. Setup downloads and automatically installs the
software on site systems or clients when it is required. You must
select all check boxes before you can continue to the next
page.
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On the Prerequisite Downloads page, specify
whether Setup downloads the latest prerequisite redistributable
files, language packs, and the latest product updates from the
Internet or use previously downloaded files, and then click
Next. If you previously downloaded the files by using Setup
Downloader, select Use previously downloaded files and
specify the download folder. For information about Setup
Downloader, see the Setup
Downloader section in the Install Sites and Create
a Hierarchy for Configuration Manager topic.
| Note |
| When you use previously downloaded files, verify that the path
to the download folder contains the most recent version of the
files. |
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On the Server Language Selection page, view the
list of languages that are currently installed for the site. Select
additional languages that are available at this site for the
Configuration Manager console and for reports, or clear languages
that you no longer want to support at this site, and then click
Next. By default, English is selected and cannot be
removed.
 Important |
| Configuration Manager SP1 cannot use language packs from
Configuration Manager with no service pack. To enable support for a
language at a Configuration Manager SP1 site, you must use the
Configuration Manager SP1 version of the language pack. During
upgrade, if the Configuration Manager SP1 version of a
language pack is not available with the prerequisite files you
download, support for that language cannot be installed. If the
language is already installed for Configuration Manager with no
service pack, support for that language is uninstalled when the
site upgrades. |
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On the Client Language Selection page, view the
list of languages that are currently installed for the site. Select
additional languages that are available at this site for client
computers, or clear languages that you no longer want to support at
this site. Specify whether to enable all client languages for
mobile device clients, and then click Next. By default,
English is selected and cannot be removed.
| Important |
| Configuration Manager SP1 cannot use language packs from
Configuration Manager with no service pack. To enable support for a
language at a Configuration Manager SP1 site, you must use the
Configuration Manager SP1 version of the language pack. During
upgrade, if the Configuration Manager SP1 version of a
language pack is not available with the prerequisite files that you
download, support for that language cannot be installed. If the
language is already installed for Configuration Manager with no
service pack, support for that language is uninstalled when the
site upgrades. |
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On the Settings Summary page, click Next
to start Prerequisite Checker to verify server readiness for the
upgrade of the site.
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On the Prerequisite Installation Check page, if
there are no problems listed, click Next to upgrade the site
and site system roles. When Prerequisite Checker finds a problem,
click an item on the list for details about how to resolve the
problem. Resolve all items in the list that have an Error
status before you continue Setup. After you resolve the issue,
click Run Check to restart prerequisite checking. You can
also open the ConfigMgrPrereq.log file in the root of the system
drive to review the Prerequisite Checker results. The log file can
contain additional information that is not displayed in the user
interface. For a complete list of installation prerequisite rules
and descriptions, see Technical Reference for
the Prerequisite Checker in Configuration Manager.
On the Upgrade page, Setup displays the overall
progress status. When Setup completes the core site server and site
system installation, you can close the wizard. Site configuration
continues in the background.
To upgrade a secondary site
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Verify that the administrative user that runs Setup has
the following security rights:
- Local Administrator rights on the secondary
site computer
- Infrastructure Administrator or a Full
Administrator security role on the parent primary site
- System administrator (SA) rights on the site
database of the secondary site
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In the Configuration Manager console, click
Administration.
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In the Administration workspace, expand Site
Configuration, and then click Sites.
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Select the secondary site that you want to upgrade, and
then, on the Home tab, in the Site group, click
Upgrade.
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Click Yes to confirm the decision, and to start
the upgrade of the secondary site.
The secondary site upgrade progresses in the
background. After the upgrade is completed, you can confirm the
status in the Configuration Manager console. To confirm the status,
select the secondary site server, and then on the Home tab,
in the Site group, click Show Install Status.
Perform Post-Upgrade Tasks on
Configuration Manager Sites
After you upgrade a site to a new service pack, you
might have to complete additional tasks to finish the upgrade or
reconfigure the site. These tasks can include the upgrade of
Configuration Manager clients or Configuration Manager consoles,
re-enabling database replicas for management points, or restoring
settings for Configuration Manager functionality that you use and
that does not persist after the service pack upgrade.
For more information about these tasks and settings,
see the applicable sections in the Planning to Upgrade
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager topic.
For upgrades to Configuration Manager SP1:
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