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How to Convert SCCM CB from Evaluation Version to Full Version Configuration Manager

Let’s discuss How to Convert SCCM CB from an Evaluation Version to the Full Version Configuration Manager.

How do I upgrade the SCCM CB evaluation version to a licensed version? In the video tutorial embedded below, we will see how to convert the SCCM/ConfigMgr current branch evaluation version to the full version.

This activity should be performed using the application shortcut “Configuration Manager Setup,” which is already available on the primary or CAS server. I’m using the SCCM Current Branch (CB) 1606 CAS server to perform this activity.

This post provides all the details on converting SCCM CB from the Evaluation Version to the Full Configuration version.

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How to Convert SCCM CB from Evaluation Version to Full Version Configuration Manager – Fig.1

How to Convert SCCM CB from Evaluation Version to Full Version Configuration Manager

Using the same method, we must covert all the site servers (CAS, Child Primaries, and Stand-alone primary servers). Before performing this site maintenance activity via Configuration Manager setup, you must ensure a valid 25-character product key from Volume Licensing or MSDN!

SCCM Setup Wizard
Upgrade the evaluation edition to a licensed edition. Enter the 25-character product key
How to Convert SCCM CB from Evaluation Version to Full Version Configuration Manager – Table 1
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How to Convert SCCM CB from Evaluation Version to Full Version Configuration Manager – Fig.2

Logs – Evaluation Version to Full Version?

You can verify the SCCM CB 1606 Eval version to the Full version upgrade process via the log file called ConfigMgrSetup.log. Following are some of the snippets from the log file.

INFO: IsProductKeyValid, Dll path:C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT CONFIGURATION MANAGER\BIN\X64\PidGenX.dll. Configuration Manager Setup 18-08-2016 06:11:28 3812 (0x0EE4)
INFO: PidGenX confirmed that the product key is valid. Configuration Manager Setup 18-08-2016 06:11:31 3812 (0x0EE4)
INFO: Specified product key is for VL. Configuration Manager Setup 18-08-2016 06:11:31 3812 (0x0EE4)
INFO: Successfully Converted from Evaluation to Full Product Version. Configuration Manager Setup 18-08-2016 06:12:03 1564 (0x061C)

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. He is Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11 years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His focus is on Device Management technologies such as Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

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How to Expand SCCM CB Standalone Primary Server with CAS Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr

How to Expand SCCM CB Standalone Primary server with CAS server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr? In this post, we will see how to expand the stand-alone primary server and attach it to CAS. 

We need to install an SCCM CB CAS server from the latest source files, we can get the latest source files from the stand-alone primary server’s CD.Latest folder.

Here are more details about CD. The latest folder in my previous blog is here. When do you want to convert/expand your SCCM CB stand-alone primary server to a hierarchy and install SCCM CB CAS?

The only reason for this activity is “If your SCCM CB stand-alone primary server is going out of support in terms of a maximum number of supported clients”.

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How to Expand SCCM CB Standalone Primary Server with CAS Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr – Fig.1

Introduction – How to Expand SCCM CB Standalone Primary Server with CAS Server

As per the latest documentation from Microsoft, a stand-alone primary server can support up to 175K clients. If you have exceeded this magical number, you must expand your stand-alone primary server to the SCCM CB hierarchy with CAS.

SCCM Site Hierarchy
Monitoring
Overview
Site Hierarchy
CAS
BLR
How to Expand SCCM CB Standalone Primary Server with CAS Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr – Table 1
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How to Expand SCCM CB Standalone Primary Server with CAS Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr – Fig.2

More Details – How to Expand SCCM CB Standalone Primary Server with CAS Server

I’ve created a video tutorial to explain the process of expanding the SCCM CB stand-alone primary server. Before starting the expansion activity, we need to consider some essential prerequisites.

  • We must install the new SCCM CB CAS server from the installation media (source files) –CD.Latest Folder- that matches the version of the stand-alone SCCM CB primary site.
  • The SCCM CB stand-alone primary site cannot be configured to migrate data from another SCCM hierarchy. Remove all those migration configurations before expansion.
  • The SCCM CB CAS server’s computer account must be a member of the Administrators group on the stand-alone primary site. You may or may not remove this account after the expansion.
  • The user account that runs setup to install the SCCM CB CAS server must have FULL Admin or Infra Admin permissions at the stand-alone primary site.
  • Before you can expand the site, we have to uninstall the following site system roles from the SCCM CB stand-alone primary site: the Asset Intelligence synchronization point, the Endpoint Protection point, and the Service connection point.
  • The SQL Server Service Broker(4022) port must be open between SCCM CB CAS and a stand-alone primary server.

ConfigMgrSetup.log 

Snippets from ConfigMgrSetup.log which may help you to trace the installation of CAS and connectivity between SCCM CB primary server:-  

INFO: Registering SQL connection to primary site's SQL server BLRITPROCM.BLRITPRO.COM.
INFO: checking whether BLRITPROCM.BLRITPRO.COM is a standalone site and whether it has the matched version
INFO: Creating sender address on primary site BLRITPROCM.BLRITPRO.COM to access CAS site BLREMSCAS.BLRITPRO.COM.
INFO: Creating sender address on CAS site BLREMSCAS.BLRITPRO.COM to access primary site BLRITPROCM.BLRITPRO.COM.
INFO: Stored SQL Server computer certificate for Server [BLREMSCAS.BLRITPRO.COM] successfully on [BLRITPROCM.BLRITPRO.COM].
Successfully bulk copied file [C:\SEDO_LockableObjectTypes_bcp.bcp] into table [SEDO_LockableObjectTypes] with rows [20]. Configuration Manager Setup 17-08-2016 15:37:58 3936 (0x0F60)
Creating Service Broker routes for site BLR on SQL server BLREMSCAS.BLRITPRO.COM. ConfigurationManager Setup 17-08-2016 15:38:43 3936 (0x0F60)
INFO: RCM received a message from "BLRITPROCM.BLRITPRO.COM", BCP initialization has started. Configuration Manager Setup 17-08-2016 15:47:36 3576 (0x0DF8)

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. He is Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11 years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His focus is on Device Management technologies such as Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

How to Recover SCCM CB Primary Server Using SQL Database Backup Configuration Manager ConfigMgr 2

How to Recover SCCM CB Primary Server Using SQL Database Backup Configuration Manager ConfigMgr

How to Recover SCCM CB Primary Server Using SQL Database Backup Configuration Manager ConfigMgr with the following video tutorial from the HTMD community.

Let’s see “How to Recover SCCM CB Primary Server Using SQL Database Backup.” Sometimes, you must restore the SQL on a new virtual server or hardware. I have also included that in the post below.

The critical point here is that “SCCM CB full backup” is not required to restore your SCCM CB primary server. Instead, you can restore or recover the primary site server from SQL backup and CD—latest folder backup (along with package source folders, WSUS folders/DBs, etc.).

This post provides all the details on recovering the SCCM CB primary server using the SQL database backup configuration manager configMgr.

Prerequisites:

The following are the prerequisites for Recovering the SCCM CB primary server using SQL database backup configuration manager configMgr.

  • Remove existing SCCM servers from the domain, ensuring you know local admin account details.
  • Shutdown existing SCCM servers
  • Rename existing SCCM servers in Vcenter or HyperV to .old
  • Rename the new SCCM server in Vcenter/HyperV to the existing SCCM server names
  • Delete existing SCCM servers from AD
  • Remove new SCCM/ConfigMgr servers from the domain and reboot, ensuring you have local admin account details.
  • Log onto new SCCM/ConfigMgr servers using the local admin account
  • Change IPs of new SCCM servers to reflect old SCCM server IP details
  • Change new SCCM server names to existing SCCM server names and reboot
  • Log on to new SCCM servers as the local admin account
  • Add new SCCM servers to the domain and reboot
  • Verify the OU, System Management Access, and AD membership information for the new SCCM/ConfigMgr servers. Reboot if you have made any changes above
  • Storage migrates any back-end storage in VMware/HyperV to ensure that vmdk files and vmx/VHDX files are named correctly.

How to Recover SCCM CB Primary Server Using SQL Database Backup Configuration Manager ConfigMgr?

I have another three posts and videos related to SCCM Current Branch backup and recovery options. You can refer to those posts from here.

The SCCM CB standalone primary server should be installed from CD.Latest folder (p.s – this is because we are making a recovery of the server). I used the native SQL backup option from SQL Management Studio to back up the SQL DB.

Once the recovered server OS was up and running with all the prerequisites(ADK, WSUS, SQL), I restored the SQL DB using Management Studio from the SQL full backup file. The video tutorial below explains all these processes.

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How to Recover SCCM CB Primary Server Using SQL Database Backup Configuration Manager ConfigMgr – Fig. 1

Also, note the “post-recovery” process in addition to removing and adding Intune subscriptions. It would be best to ensure that all the accounts configured in the SCCM ConfigMgr CB console are removed and added back.

If a hotfix is installed on the SCCM CB server, we must install it after the recovery Wizard is completed. During recovery, we must follow the following SCCM CB primary server prerequisites.

Prerequisites for the SCCM CB Primary Server
The hostname Should be the same
Drive Letters should be the same
The installation path should be the same
Should have the same patch level
Better to have the same IP: All the prerequisite apps should be installed: SQL Databased is already restored (manually)
How to Recover SCCM CB Primary Server Using SQL Database Backup Configuration Manager ConfigMgr – Table 1

Recover SCCM CB Primary Server Using SQL Database Backup

Here is the end-to-end recovery experience video. (1) How to Recover or restore SCCM CB Primary server using SQL Database Backup – YouTube.

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. He is Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11 years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His focus is on Device Management technologies such as Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

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

Let’s learn How to Restore or Recover the SCCM Standalone Primary Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr.

This is another video tutorial to demonstrate “How to restore or recover an SCCM standalone primary server“. The prerequisite for this type of recovery (explained in the video and the table below). Introduction – I will use SCCM CB full backup to restore or recover the Site Database server in this scenario.

The SCCM Site Server and Site Database Recovery options I selected during the recovery process are essential. In this scenario, I opted to reinstall the site server part of SCCM CB site server recovery and 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 🙂

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

Do we need the following to Restore or Recover the SCCM Standalone Primary Server? The table below shows the prerequisites: How to Restore or Recover SCCM Standalone Primary Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr.

Prerequisites
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)
How to Restore or Recover SCCM Standalone Primary Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr – Table 1

If you have a question about “How to take the full backup of the SCCM CB server, ” it is explained in the previous post here. So, I won’t cover that topic in this post or video. Also, SCCM CB primary server migration to new hardware is already covered in the post here.

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.

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How to Restore or Recover SCCM Standalone Primary Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr – Fig.1

SCCM ConfigMgr CB How to Restore or Recover Primary Standalone Server

This is another video tutorial to demonstrate “How to restore or recover the SCCM/ConfigMgr CB standalone primary server“. The prerequisite for this type of recovery (explained in the video and the table below) – we need to have SCCM/ConfigMgr CB full backup, the Server name should be the same as the existing server, the Drive Letters should be the same, the Installation Path should be same, Should have same patch level and Better to have the same IP (to avoid opening new Firewall rules).

How to Restore or Recover SCCM Standalone Primary Server Configuration Manager ConfigMgr – Video 1

Resources

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

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

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. He is Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11 years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His focus is on Device Management technologies such as Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

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How to Download the Latest Version of Windows 10 ISO

This is a quick post and video about “How to Download the Latest Version of Windows 10 ISO.” There are three methods for downloading the Windows 10 anniversary update (1607).

How to download Windows 10 ISO? Login to TechNet Evaluation Center with Hotmail/Outlook/Live ID and Download Free Windows 10 ISO – Enterprise version. This evaluation is to test Windows 10 1607 for free for 90 days.

How to download Windows 10 ISO 1607 Anniversary update from MSDN? Login to the MSDN Subscriptions Center (for Visual Studio/MSDN subscribers) from here and download the Windows 10 ISO.

In this post, you will find all the details on how to Download the Latest Version of Windows 10 ISO.

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How to Download the Latest Version of Windows 10 ISO – Fig.1

How to Download Windows 10 ISO 1607 Anniversary Update from VLSC? – How to Download the Latest Version of Windows 10 ISO

You can log in to the Volume Licensing Service Center (for Volume License customers) from here and download the Windows 10 ISO.

If you already use Windows 10 1511, you can get the updated version from Settings –> Update and Security. How do you download Windows 10 Anniversary Update 1607 for your home machines? How do you Download the Latest Version of Windows 10 ISO?

Download the Latest Version of Windows 10 ISO
Download Windows 10, version 1607 update from Windows Update or Windows Update for Business.
If updates are not appearing on your Windows 10 machine, use the Windows 10 Update Assistant utility.
Download Link
How to Download the Latest Version of Windows 10 ISO – Table 1

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. He is Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11 years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His focus is on Device Management technologies such as Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

How to Migrate SCCM CB Primary Server to New Hardware Configuration Manager ConfigMgr Best Guide 5

How to Migrate SCCM CB Primary Server to New Hardware Configuration Manager ConfigMgr Best Guide

How to Migrate SCCM CB Primary Server to New Hardware Configuration Manager ConfigMgr? How do we Migrate the SCCM CB 1606 primary server to new hardware or a new virtual server?

How can I restore the SCCM CB primary server from the full SCCM backup? I’ll try to answer these two questions in this blog post and the video. 

I used SCCM CB full backup to migrate the primary server into a virtual server. In this scenario, the SCCM CB primary site server and Database server are on the same box.

After the migration, Intune/cloud communication was not working, and all the logs (CloudUserSync.log, DMPUploader.log, and DMPDownloader.log) filled with “Certmgr has not installed certificate yet, sleep for 1 minute.”.

The resolution was to remove the Intune subscription and add it back. More details about “Migrate SCCM CB Primary server to New Hardware or new virtual server“. How to Migrate SCCM CB Primary server to New Hardware Configuration Manager ConfigMgr.

Prerequisites Migrate SCCM CB Primary server to New Hardware – How to Migrate SCCM CB Primary Server to New Hardware Configuration Manager ConfigMgr Best Guide

The prerequisites we must follow while migrating the SCCM CB primary server to new hardware are: How to SCCM CB Primary server to New Hardware Configuration Manager ConfigMgr.

  • FQDN Hostname Should be the same
  • Drive Letters should be the same
  • The installation path should be the same
  • Should have the same patch level
  • Better to have the same IP
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How to Migrate SCCM CB Primary Server to New Hardware Configuration Manager ConfigMgr Best Guide – Fig.1

Tips – Migrate the SCCM CB Primary server to New Hardware

Let’s discuss the following steps to help you complete the migration steps efficiently.

Migrate the SCCM CB Primary server to New Hardware
1. Document local SMS group memberships of existing server 
2. Perform differential Robocopy of the backup folders to the new server (Package Source\DP files\WSUS) 
3. Shutdown Current SCCM CB Server 
4. Delete the AD object of the existing SCCM Server from Active Directory Users and Computers 
5. Rename the new server to the old SCCM CB server name 
6. Give the New Server an OLD IP address (Optional) 
7.  Perform Domain Join of the new SCCM CB server. Provide FULL ACCESS to new SCCM CB computer object in the System Management container and also add to respective AD groups wherever required. 
8. Install all the prerequisites – ADK, WSUS, SQL, etc… 
9. Run the setup from CD.Latest folder to get the latest binaries of the existing CB site.
How to Migrate SCCM CB Primary Server to New Hardware Configuration Manager ConfigMgr Best Guide – Table 1

Video

(1) How to Migrate ConfigMgr SCCM CB Primary Server to New Hardware – YouTube

Resources

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. He is Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11 years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His focus is on Device Management technologies such as Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

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SCCM ConfigMgr CB How to Plan Backup Recovery Configuration Manager Best Options

Let’s discuss SCCM ConfigMgr CB: How to Plan Backup Recovery Configuration Manager Best Options. What are the backup and recovery options changes in SCCM ConfigMgr CB 1606? Nothing much changed in terms of backup apart from taking a backup of the CD.Latest folder.

The CD.LATEST folder is also backed up as part of the SCCM CB full backup. Why do we need the CD.LATEST as part of the SCCM CB full backup? This is because it is a source file for when you want to recover an SCCM CB site server!

Why can’t we use the baseline version, which can be downloaded from MSDN/Volume Licensing sites? Those binaries can’t be used because they are not the same version of SCCM CB that is installed in your primary server/CAS.

The baseline version of SCCM CB production is 1511, and if you upgraded/updated the site to SCCM CB 1606 using Updates and Servicing, you can’t use the 1511 version source files to recover the primary site.

When Do You Want to Run SCCM CB Setup from CD.LATEST Folder? – SCCM ConfigMgr CB How to Plan Backup Recovery Configuration Manager Best Options

Only when you are trying to recover a site !! In the following video, I try to explain the process of back and restore. Also, when to select which option during the recovery process.

There is always a question of whether to use SCCM full backup or just SQL backup to restore the functionality of SCCM sites. My answer is, “It depends.”

SCCM CB supports both the scenarios mentioned above; however, in some of the scenarios, you may need a full SCCM CB backup to complete the restore. The SCCM restore and recovery come with loads of permutations and combinations, as I explained in the table below and the video above.

SCCM ConfigMgr CB How to Plan Backup Recovery | Configuration Manager Best Options

After watching the video, I hope you will gain some clarity about those scenarios. What are the changes in SCCM CB 1606 Backup and Recovery options—YouTube? SCCM ConfigMgr CB How to Plan Backup Recovery | Configuration Manager Best Options?

SCCM ConfigMgr CB How to Plan Backup Recovery | Configuration Manager Best Options
SCCM ConfigMgr CB How to Plan Backup Recovery | Configuration Manager Best Options

Table 1: SCCM CB Site Server and Site Database Recovery Options

The screenshot below shows the SCCM CB Site Server and Site Database Recovery Options. It shows the SCCM CB Site Server options such as the CAS, Stand-Alone Primary, Child Primary and Secondary Remote Site.

SCCM ConfigMgr CB How to Plan Backup Recovery | Configuration Manager Best Options
SCCM ConfigMgr CB How to Plan Backup Recovery | Configuration Manager Best Options
Installation      Site Server Site Database
 Setup only part of recoveryRecover Site ServerReinstall the site serverRecover DB using CM backupCreate a new DBManually Recovered DBSkip DB Recovery
CASInstall setup from CD.LATEST FolderOnly when you’ve SCCM Full BackupReconfigure the settingsOnly when you’ve SCCM Full BackupOnly When you’ve a hierarchyUse SQL Backup or any other backup. Changes made retrieved from PrimaryOnly valid when the site DB is on a different computer
Stand-Alone PrimaryInstall setup from CD.LATEST FolderOnly when you’ve SCCM Full BackupReconfigure the settingsOnly when you’ve SCCM Full BackupNot ApplicableUse SQL Backup or any other backup. Lose site changes after the last backupOnly valid when the site DB is on a different computer
Child PrimaryInstall setup from CD.LATEST FolderOnly when you’ve SCCM Full BackupReconfigure the settingsOnly when you’ve SCCM Full BackupOnly When you’ve a hierarchyUse SQL Backup or any other backup. Changes made retrieved from CASOnly valid when the site DB is on a different computer
SecondaryUse CM Console to recover Secondary SiteNo recoveryNo recoveryNo recoveryNo recoveryNo recoveryNo recovery
SCCM ConfigMgr CB How to Plan Backup Recovery | Configuration Manager Best Options

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. He is Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11 years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His focus is on Device Management technologies such as Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.