How to Restore or Recover SCCM Standalone Primary Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr

Learn How to Restore or Recover SCCM Standalone Primary Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr?

This is another video tutorial to demonstrate “How to restore or recover SCCM standalone primary server“. The prerequisite for this type of recovery (explained in the video and the table below).

Prerequisites – Restore or Recover SCCM Standalone Primary Server

Do we need to have the following to Restore or Recover SCCM Standalone Primary Server?

  • SCCM full backup,
  • FQDN – The server name should be the same as the existing server
  • Drive Letters should be the same
  • The installation path should be the same
  • It should have the same patch level
  • Better to have the same IP (to avoid opening new Firewall rules)

If you have a question about “How to take the full backup of SCCM CB server” then it is already explained in the previous post here.

Patch My PC

So I’m not going to cover that topic in this post or video. Also, SCCM CB primary server migration to new hardware is already covered in the post here.

Introduction

In this scenario, I will use SCCM CB full backup to restore or recover the Site Database server.

SCCM Site Server and Site Database Recovery options I selected during the recovery process are very important. In this scenario, I opted to reinstall the site server part of SCCM CB site server recovery, and I opted for the “Recover DB using SCCM full backup” option to recover the site server database.

Another question I get as part of the SCCM CB hybrid (with Intune integration) is:-  Do we need to re-enroll the mobile devices once the SCCM CB server is restored/Recovered? The answer is there in the video 🙂

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More details – How to Restore or Recover SCCM Standalone Primary Server

More details about SCCM ConfigMgr CB 1606 How to Plan Backup and Recovery https://www.anoopcnair.com/what-are-the-options-for-sccm-cb-1606-backup-and-recovery/

Table 1:- SCCM CB Site Server and Site Database Recovery options demonstrated in the above video are highlighted

How to Restore or Recover SCCM Standalone Primary Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr
How to Restore or Recover SCCM Standalone Primary Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr

Resources

SCCM Related Posts Real World Experiences Of SCCM Admins (anoopcnair.com)

SCCM Video Tutorials For IT Pros – HTMD Blog #2 (howtomanagedevices.com)

Author

Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. E writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc…

9 thoughts on “How to Restore or Recover SCCM Standalone Primary Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr”

  1. After performing a site restore or migration to another server, after removing and re-adding the Intune Subscription – what is the correct process for iOS platform management? If we try to use the .pem file we downloaded from Apple originally, this no longer works and show an error that the “certificate signing request does not match the apn’s public key.” We have proceeded on the basis of renewing the APN certificate in the Apple Certificate page and supply a new .csr generated by our ConfigMgr environment – hoping that we do not have to re-enroll iOS devices.

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  2. Anoop, we have build the SCCM environment with Current branch 1511 and later updated the 1602 hot fix .
    So I will be having 1602 full site backup , Now my primary sites has crashed and when i trying to recover the site with 1511 install media and full site backup of 1602 it failed saying build number should match . Can you help me how to perform the recover in this scenario

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  3. 1. Two Servers – SCCM Primary Site Server and SQL 2014 working fine.
    2. Backup taken from SCCM for both SiteServer and SiteDatabase
    3. These two server will be disjoined from domain.
    4. Two new Hardware with Windows 2012 built.
    5. Install SQL Server
    6. Attach MDF File to the SQL Server
    7. Install SCCM server – using recover site and for DB – DC manually restored.
    8. SCCM not connecting to Database server.

    Questions :

    I don’t know the passwords of SQL Server Service Accounts : SQL Agent, SSRS, and SQLdatabase engine.
    Do I really need this account and password for SCCM to connect to SQL server.

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  4. 1. Two Servers – SCCM Primary Site Server and SQL 2014 working fine.
    2. Backup taken from SCCM for both SiteServer and SiteDatabase
    3. These two server will be disjoined from domain.
    4. Two new Hardware with Windows 2012 built.
    5. Install SQL Server
    6. Attach MDF File to the SQL Server
    7. Install SCCM server – using recover site and for DB – DC manually restored.
    8. SCCM not connecting to Database server.

    Questions :

    I don’t know the passwords of SQL Server Service Accounts : SQL Agent, SSRS, and SQLdatabase engine.
    Do I really need this account and password for SCCM to connect to SQL server.
    These account are asked during SQL Install as seen in the pic below
    The new hardware is joined to domain using the same host name like the original Site Server and Db server

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