Manual Client Installation

In this lesson, I am going to show you how you can manually install the System Center Configuration Manager client.

I am logged into my SCCM server and we are also going to use our ITFWS01.

It is also important to keep in mind that I have the Domain Controller powered on at the same time, so if you are working in your lab environment you want to have your SCCM server, your Workstation, and your Domain Controller all powered on at the same time.

Now, if you just installed the client on ITFWS01 using Client Push then this lecture will be strictly informational for you.

Every once in a while you run into a workstation where installing it with the Client Push simply does not work so the next thing you want to try is to install it manually.

Now, what we are going to do is click on Devices and we can see here we have our three computer devices and none of them have the client installed.

So, what we are going to do is install it manually and then come back to our SCCM server and see if it updates the same Yes the client is installed.

Switch over to ITFWS01 VM and log in.

The first thing we need to do is open the File Explorer and navigate to our SCCM server typing \\\ITFSCCM01\ and pressing Enter.

Now, I am using a local account so I need to type in my domain Administrator credentials ITFLEE\Administrator. Click OK.

Now, we are brought to a list of file shares, and what we are looking for is the SMS fold…