Monday, July 2, 2012

System Center 2012 Unified Installer is working now

System Center 2012 Unified Installer is a utility designed to perform new, clean installations of System Center 2012 for testing and evaluation purposes only. With the Unified Installer it's possible to install all System Center products at once, without the need to install a single product multiple times. That way products can be installed quicker and less screens are needed to install them. 

Last week I started the installation again because of the new RTM release. Just prepare your install and target computer with local policies, as mentioned in the comments and on Microsoft TechNet: 
Preparing an Installer Computer for System Center 2012
Preparing a Target Computer for System Center 2012

Also use the steps mentioned by ThomasH mentioned in my other blogpost: Using the System Center 2012 Unified Installer

Computer Config \ Administrative Templates \ System \ Credentials Delegation \ Allow Delegating Fresh Credentials
State = Enabled
Server = WSMAN/*

Computer Config \ Administrative Templates \ System \ Credentials Delegation \ Allow Delegating Fresh Credentials with NTLM only server Authentication
State = Enabled
Server = WSMAN/*

Computer Config \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Remote Management (WinRM) \ WinRM Client \ Allow CredSSP authentication
State = Enabled

Computer Config \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Remote Management (WinRM) \ WinRM Client \ Trusted Hosts
State = Enabled
TrustedHostList = *

Computer Config \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Remote Management (WinRM) \ WinRM Service \ Allow Automatic Configuration of listeners
State = Enabled
IPv4 filter = *
IPv6 filter = *

Computer Config \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Remote Management (WinRM) \ WinRM Service \ Allow CredSSP authentication
State = Enabled


In a command prompt, run:
gpupdate
Winrm quickconfig


Very handy in "Prerequisite Media Location" is the download link for every prerequisite!

When the error message "The WinRM settings are not configured correctly" is displayed, look at the log \Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft System Center 2012\Unified Installer\LOGS for more information!

During installation the following screens are displayed:
In this case I'm only installing Orchestrator (which is mandatory), Operations Manager and Configuration Manager 2012.

Orchestrator will be installed first because of runbook functionality

All needed prerequisites will be installed first at the same time

All selected System Center products are successfully installed now!
After that a nice Deployment Summary Report is displayed.

Conclusion: The System Center 2012 Unified Installer is an easy way to setup a demo environment quickly. It's working when you download all products and prerequisites and prepare all your servers! Too bad it's not possible to use a single SQL Server installation, it will be installed for all products selected. But it's for sure a handy solution!

3 comments:

  1. I hope someone has an idea J because I realy could use one

    I have been trying to set up System Center 2012 in my environment using the Unified Installer

    All Prerequisites check out it accepts all paths to all servers and file locations.

    So it starts the deployment process , going to the local install for the Orchestrator finishes it without a problem , as soon as it hits the first remote install VMM it fails and shows all but Orchestrator red.

    The log file shows only one error stating :

    Could not execute Runbook:

    An error occurred, please see the Event Log for details.

    Access to the path '\\Server_Name\C$\Temp\UnifiedInstaller\UIInstall\Interop.WSManAutomation.dll' is denied.


    So I verified the access to it, no problem I ( the same user cred then for the install, can access , delete modify the file etc.) Checked from all servers

    Started and stopped runbook

    But it returns to this error over and over again

    I deleted the folder to have it recreated, gave the temp folder full right, nothing


    Has anyone seen this before?

    I can’t find anything out there reflecting that error , many show Runbook issues but not this

    Any help would be appreciated

    Carpe Diem

    Here is a copy of the progress

    INFO - Copying SQL INIs - VirtualMachineManager

    INFO - Copying SQL INIs - AppController

    INFO - Copying SQL INIs - OperationsManager

    INFO - Copying SQL INIs - OperationsManager

    INFO - Copying SQL INIs - ConfigurationManager

    INFO - Copying SQL INIs - ServiceManager

    INFO - Copying SQL INIs - ServiceManager

    INFO - Copying SQL INIs - DataProtectionManager

    INFO - Checking System Center Orchestrator Installation Status

    DEBUG - Attempting to add Domain\Admin to Administrators localgroup Administrators Domain\Admin /add

    INFO - Configuring local call

    Full command: "C:\Windows\system32\net.exe" localgroup Administrators Domain\Admin /add

    WARN - Failed to run command: C:\Windows\system32\net.exe localgroup Administrators Domain\Admin /add

    DEBUG - Attempting to add Domain\Admin to Administrators localgroup Administrators Domain\Admin /add

    INFO - Configuring local call

    Full command: "C:\Windows\system32\net.exe" localgroup Administrators Domain\Admin /add

    WARN - Failed to run command: C:\Windows\system32\net.exe localgroup Administrators Domain\Admin /add

    DEBUG - Checking if service [Orchestrator Management Service] on Server_Name

    DEBUG - Service [Orchestrator Management Service] is installed and running on Server_Name

    INFO - Checking WinRM configuration

    DEBUG - Creating session at server: Server_Name, user specified: True, username: Domain\Admin

    DEBUG - Server: Server_Name, winrm\Service\Auth\CredSSP = True

    DEBUG - Server: Server_Name, winrm\winrs\AllowRemoteShellAccess = True

    DEBUG - Server: Server_Name, winrm\winrs\MaxMemoryPerShellMB = 2048

    INFO - Orchestrator Management Service is installed and running

    INFO - Checking Orchestrator Runbook Service Installation Status

    DEBUG - Checking if service [Orchestrator Runbook Service] on Server_Name

    DEBUG - Service [Orchestrator Runbook Service] is installed and running on Server_Name

    INFO - Orchestrator Runbook Service Installation Verified

    INFO - Looking for C:\Temp\UnifiedInstaller\UIInstall\progress.xml

    INFO - Copying Unified Installer files

    (F:\ [9 files]) (\\Server_Name\C$\Temp\UnifiedInstaller\UIInstall)

    ERROR - Could not execute Runbook:

    An error occurred, please see the Event Log for details.

    Access to the path '\\Server_Name\C$\Temp\UnifiedInstaller\UIInstall\Interop.WSManAutomation.dll' is denied.




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    Carpe Diem

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  2. Removing the “Unified Installer” folder under
    \\Server_Name\C$\Temp\ and have Unified Installer recreate it seems to move the installation forward.
    Not sure why but it did for me :-)
    Carpe Diem

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  3. Thanks Martin for posting back the results!

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