SCCM Client Installation:-
We followed the following steps to
install the client successfully
The SCCM 2012 client is stored on your SCCM Server in the Client folder under SMS_SITECODE(\\SCCMSERVER\SMS_SITECODE\Client\ or C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Client\)
1 Copy the client folder to the client machine
2 Open an admin command prompt
3 Change the current directory to the client folder that you copied i.e.
c:\client
4 Run the following command
ccmsetup.exe /source:c:\client SMSMP=<your mp fqdn> SMSSITECODE=<your Site Code>
for example: C:\client\ccmsetup.exe /source:c:\client SMSMP=XYZ SMSSITECODE=ABC
Run the above command line, then It will create ccmsetup folder inside C:\windows\ccmsetup,You can check SCCM installation status in ccmsetup.log(C:\windows\ccmsetup\ccmsetup.log)
ccmsetup.exe /source:c:\client SMSMP=<your mp fqdn> SMSSITECODE=<your Site Code>
for example: C:\client\ccmsetup.exe /source:c:\client SMSMP=XYZ SMSSITECODE=ABC
Run the above command line, then It will create ccmsetup folder inside C:\windows\ccmsetup,You can check SCCM installation status in ccmsetup.log(C:\windows\ccmsetup\ccmsetup.log)
ccmsetup.log is exiting with return code 0 that mean SCCM client installed Successfully.
When client is installed go to control panel, Press configuration manager, Go to action-tab and run below policy.
Machine Policy retrieval & Evaluation cycle
User policy retrieval & Evaluation cycle
Then press ok. The client will now download and apply your client policies.
SCCM Client Uninstall:-
To uninstall the Configuration Manager client, Open a command prompt (Run as administrator)
Type: C:\windows\ccmsetup\ccmsetup.exe /uninstall
To complete SCCM uninstallation, Please delete below folder and registry.
c:\windows\ccm
c:\windows\ccmcachec:\windows\ccmsetup
c:\windows\smscfg.ini
reg delete HKLM\software\Microsoft\ccm
reg delete HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\clisvcl
reg delete HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ccmexec
reg delete HKLM\Software\Microsoft\NAL
reg delete HKLM\software\Microsoft\CCMSETUP
reg delete HKLM\software\Microsoft\SMS
reg delete HKLM\software\Microsoft\Systemcertificates\SMS\Certificates
You may use batch script for complete SCCM client removal:-
net stop ccmexec
net stop ccmsetupC:\Windows\ccmsetup\ccmsetup.exe /uninstall
timeout /T 100 >nul
rd c:\windows\ccm /S /Q
rd c:\windows\ccmcache /S /Q
rd c:\windows\ccmsetup /S /Q
del c:\windows\smscfg.ini
reg delete HKLM\software\Microsoft\ccm /f
reg delete HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\clisvcl /f
reg delete HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ccmexec /f
reg delete HKLM\Software\Microsoft\NAL /f
reg delete HKLM\software\Microsoft\CCMSETUP /f
reg delete HKLM\software\Microsoft\SMS /f
reg delete HKLM\software\Microsoft\Systemcertificates\SMS\Certificates /f
timeout /T 120 >nul
rd c:\windows\ccm /S /Q
For log viewer you can use CMTrace.exe.
You can download System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Toolkit.
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