To be honest, I kinda forgot I was blogging about my adventure until the other day and have since just gotten around to it. It's a been a crazy ride, I'm not but even a quarter of the way through, and I've already learned a ton.
First things first...lets catch up. The last time I blogged was well before Christmas, and I was implementing my ConfigMgr 2012 beta into a lab environment. After Christmas break, we decided to start over, and do the real thing. So I wiped the servers, put Server 2012 back on, and began my journey again. This one is much more interesting.
To start off, let me just say I love SANs...and I hate them. Once the servers were wiped, our EMC agent had to be loaded back on for the drives to come through Now, if only the EMC supported Server 2012 with their agent fully. But with Linda's help again, we got the drives back and I got them formatted to start over.
Of course I followed the law of the west, and configured the servers completely correct before installing ConfigMgr. Once I installed ConfigMgr, I took my trainer Kent Agerlund's advice with post-SQL install configurations. I needed his help as I was confused on the databases and how many additional ones I needed. Once I got the facts semi-straight (number of processors and cores and RAM in the server, and the number of clients in my environment), I had him confirm my thinking (which he corrected) in order to proceed. (Thanks again, Kent!) I created seven additional databases INSIDE SQL. Yep, first query I've ever run in full-blown-out SQL. And, I did it right the first time. I was proud. ;)
The past couple of days have been exciting as I continue on configuring ConfigMgr to best-practice standards. That's my goal. I want things to not only work now, but five years down the road. SQL is obviously a big one there.
I decided to blog again today because I wanted to share some valuable information I learned. So the next post will be on installing the application catalog. I'll try to keep up my postings as I continue on!
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