Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCSM 2012 R2 – Service Manager 2012 R2 Management Server installation

Install and configure SQL Server

SQL Server Cluster with AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances

Please continue to the Building Microsoft SQL Server Cluster with AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances series to learn how to deploy cluster with AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances.

Highly-available VM with SQL Server

If you do not want to use SQL Server AlwaysOn Available Groups you can simply deploy a separate VM and install SQL Server. But I suggest you to use highly-available databases in AlwaysOn Available Groups even when the installed System Center product is not highly-available.

Install as named instance (default instance is also fine for the testing environment).
- - SCSM0
Use service accounts.
- - serscdb0
Default collation – SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
Set security group for the database administrators for the System Center deployment.
- - scdbadmins0
Analysis Services – Security group for the database administrators for the System Center deployment.
- - scdbadmins0
Reporting Services – choose Install and Configure in order to install and configure SRS to be active on the server. In production environment in separate installation for Reporting Services (without DBEngine feature) you would need to do manual configuration of the Reporting Services.

Install .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 on SCSM servers

Install .NET 3.5 from the installation media (offline installation) without need to download it from the Microsoft.
Command Prompt

dism.exe /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFX3 /All /Source:D:\Sources\sxs /LimitAccess

Do not forgot to install .NET 3.5 security updates.

Install Microsoft Report Viewer

Install Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 Redistributable Package – KB971119.
You can do it later during SCSM installation.

Install Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Management Objects

You can download it on the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Feature Pack page.
Install Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Management Objects.
- SQL_AS_AMO.msi

Install Microsoft SQL Server Native Client

You can download it on the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Feature Pack page.
Install Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client
- sqlncli.msi

Install Service Manager Management Server

Login as member of SCSM Administrators.
Install – Service Manager Management Server
Do not worry about CPU and memory warnings.
SQL Server Cluster with AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances
- Choose SQL Cluster and the installed instance.
- In the production environment you need to inrease size of the database.
  - - contsqlfcic0sm0.ad.contoso.com\SCSM0
Standalone highly-available VM with standalone SQL Server
- Choose DB server and the installed instance.
- In the production environment you need to inrease size of the database.
  - - contscsmdb0.ad.contoso.com\SCSM0
Warning for SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS is normal so do not worry about it.
Create new management group. In the case you are using System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) it is best practice to use different name for this management group.
Choose the SCSM Administrators security group.
- - contososervice
  - scsmadmins0
Select SCSM services account.
- - serscsms0
Select SCSM workflow account.
- - serscsmw0
Install

Backup the encryption key for the new management group

[x] Open the Encryption Backup or Restore Wizard after Setup closes. You are advised to complete this process to be prepared in the eventer of future disaster recovery needs.
Backup the Encryption Key
Choose proper remote path or local and then delete the file.

SCSM console on the management server

Now it is a good time to run the SCSM console from the management server.

Install .NET Framework 3.5
Install Microsoft Report Viewer 2008
Install Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Management Objects
Install – Service Manager console
Check the prerequisites.
Install

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