Deploying the Secondary Sites

Configuration Manager 2012 secondary sites are deployed through the console, via a push from a Primary Site Server. All the prerequisites, such as SQL Server 2008 and .NET Framework 4.0, are pushed out with the role remotely. However, this requires two features to be installed to work correctly. Those features are as follows:

• Remote Differential Compression

• .NET Framework 3.5

To install these prerequisites using the command line, run PowerShell as an administrator and enter the following commands:

Import-Module ServerManagerAdd-WindowsFeature Net-Framework,RDC

In addition, the Primary Site Server Active Directory account (for example, CM3$) is the account performing the remote installation, so it must have local ...

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