What's going on guys it is Bernardo and today is all about upgrading your SCCM to
2111. So let's get right into it. Alright, so the first things first,
let's open up your SCCM console, click on the File tab, which I consider the file tab, right.
And we are going to click on About Configuration Manager, you're going to get this nice little
dialog box. I'm just showing you guys that I am running version 2107. This is one of the core
requirements to get to 2111. During this video, during this time that I took these snapshots
I actually had to download the enable early update ring to get 2111 within my testing environment,
but I believe 2111 is now in production. Alright, so you can basically just skip all this.
But I basically downloaded the exe file. I right clicked on it. I ran it as an administrator,
and it's gonna want me to extract the files I clicked okay. You get a nice little warning
that the extraction completed and click OK. Now, this process, all it does is drop
a PowerShell script that is going to basically talk to your SCCM server and enable the 2111
early within your environment so you can test it out. Now from here, I am going to click on start
and basically type in Windows PowerShell. And I'm going to right click on Windows PowerShell ISE
and I'm going to run it as an administrator. It's going to load up we're going to do is you're going
to go File Open and open that PowerShell script that we extracted from that exe file and it's
going to want you to enter your site server now your site server is your SCCM server and make
sure you enter the full qualified domain name mine is BJ dash SCCM dot btnhd.edu.
Click enter. If everything works well you should get the command completed successfully. Now
remember 2111 from my understanding is already in the production. So you don't really need to do
this. Now. One of the core requirements for 2111 is you got to make sure you are running the latest
and greatest dotnet framework, right if you don't have it 2111 is going to produce an error behind
the scenes and it won't install correctly for you. So make sure you are running the latest framework
within your SCCM server now for me, I downloaded the latest one I basically you know right clicked
on it run it as an administrator and I was running the latest one during the time that I take the
snapshots but for you make sure you are running the latest one on your SCCM server. We're going
to open up our console and from here we are going to go inside administration - overview - updates
and servicing and you're going to see your 2111 build and underneath the state column it is going
to indicate ready to install. Now we're going to select it and right click on it and then click
on Install update pack I know a lot of you will basically do the second option to check
if you have all the requirements for it to install successfully but if you do the first option is
automatically going to check for you so just go for it. So we're going to install update pack.
You if you want you're able to ignore the check in a testing environment you basically get away with
that but in a production environment I say don't do that. Once you pick your answer click on next.
And these are some of the features that are included for that particular update.
You are able to choose it now. If not you are able to choose it later. Once you pick your options
just click on next. And client update settings you have two options I typically leave the default one
in it is update without validating and then click Next. Accept the license and terms and then click
on Next here because I don't have my SCCM attached to our cloud service. Just make sure you uncheck
all this and just click on next. If you do make sure you sign in and just follow the prompts.
You're going to get a nice little summary click next here it's going to start doing its thing
and if you get green checkmarks you are able to continue. So we are going to close that
now. Underneath the state column it's going to state installing eventually it's going to
start checking for the core requirements to see if your machine is able to install this
upgrade, you know successfully. Once it's completed, walk away come back you know go
to lunch or whatever for me took almost a day always takes about a day for it to process.
But when you go back inside your SCCM server, you're going to see this nice little tab that
says a new version of a console is available and then you have to click on the hyperlink that says
Install the new console version. When you click on that your your console is going
to automatically close up you're going to get this dialog box that is downloading the files.
So just let it be eventually you're going to get the Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager
Console which is the correct name. I know a lot of you guys are probably yelling me like it's
not SCCM anywhere. I'm old school. That's what we used to call it SCCM right system configuration.
What is it? System Center Configuration Manager. Microsoft decides to change it to MECM. Whatever
right? It's the same thing once this process is going to go to the next phase. Once it starts
preparing for the removal and the installation, it's going to start updating any extensions.
And if everything works well your console should load up automatically for you give it some time.
Sometimes it takes some time behind the scenes because it's still doing some stuff on the upper
left side you click on the File tab, and we are going to click on About Configuration Manager.
And you're going to see that you're running the latest version which is 2111.
Awesome. And if you go back inside, administration overview updates and servicing,
it's going to clean it up and you're going to see your last upgrade which is here. Now
once your SCCM is fully upgraded. The next steps are to upgrade your clients as well as
update your boot images. And then from there, I will say deploy Windows operating system within
a virtual environment or physical machine to make sure everything is working with the new
upgrade. Right. Hopefully you guys enjoy and I'll catch you guys on the next one. Peace out