Configuring Discovery and Boundaries in SCCM 2012 R2

Configuring Discovery and Boundaries in SCCM 2012 R2

In previous post we discussed on SCCM 2012 R2 installation now it’s time to configure it in this post we are going to discuss on configuring discovery and boundaries in SCCM 2012 R2 If you had not read SCCM 2012 R2 installation post then first check my previous post on SCCM 2012 R2 installation

Steps for Configure Discovery in Configuration Manager 2012 R2

Go to Administration then hierarchy configuration Select Discovery Methods here you can find Active Directory Forest Discovery, Active Directory Group Discovery, Active Directory User Discovery, Heartbeat Discovery and Network Discovery all are disable except Heartbeat Discovery now we are going to configure Discoveries

Select Active Directory Forest Discovery right click on it then click on properties

Check  on Enable active directory forest discovery, Automatically create active directory site boundaries when they are discovered, Automatically create IP address range boundaries for IP subnets when they are discovered then  click on  apply then click yes when configuration manger window ask Do you want to run full discovery as soon as possible? then click ok

Go to active directory group discovery properties and enable then click on Add and select location

Click on browse select domain name here is thetechnosolution.com

Type group name as per yours then click on ok click on apply then ok

Now configure active directory system discovery to do this go to on active directory system discovery properties

Enable active directory system discovery option then click on star like icon then select domain name  path from browse

Click on apply then ok

Go to active directory user discovery properties enable active directory user discovery browse your domain name as we done in previous step then click on ok

 

Creating Boundary Group 

Select boundary group right click on it select create boundary group

Type group name then click on add to add

Select site from add boundaries then click ok

Go to reference window on create boundary group check use this boundary group for site assignment then click on  add

At this window select server name and click on ok

Click on apply to apply settings then click on ok

You can see boundary group is created

Configuration of discovery and boundaries is complete

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