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Configuring Discovery and Boundaries in SCCM 2012 R2

March 11, 2014 by Raj Kumar 5 Comments

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

SCCM 2012 R2 Discovery

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

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

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Click on browse select domain name here is thetechnosolution.com

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

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

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

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Click on apply then ok

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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

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Creating Boundary Group 

Select boundary group right click on it select create boundary group

SCCM 2012 R2 boundaries

Type group name then click on add to add

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Select site from add boundaries then click ok

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

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At this window select server name and click on ok

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Click on apply to apply settings then click on ok

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You can see boundary group is created

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Configuration of discovery and boundaries is complete

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Comments

  1. apjj28@gmail.com'Abhishek Joshi says

    August 6, 2014 at 6:57 pm

    Nice work Raj Kumar !!!

    Reply
    • Raj Kumar says

      August 7, 2014 at 3:39 pm

      Thanks Abhishek

      Reply
  2. mhaseebiqbal@yahoo.com.au'Haseeb Iqbal says

    January 12, 2015 at 10:58 pm

    Thanks for your knowledge share.
    Can I add servers which are not been added to domain? As non of our 2003, 2008 and 2012 servers are in Domain, only the client pcs and users are.

    Our main purpose of having SCCM 2012 is to do windows patching to servers….

    Reply
  3. srininatraj@gmail.com'Srinivasan V N says

    August 12, 2015 at 8:05 pm

    Hi Raj,

    Good Job, expecting more from you 🙂

    Reply
    • Raj Kumar says

      August 15, 2015 at 9:22 am

      Thanks Srinivasan

      Reply

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