Saturday, October 04, 2008 11:07 AM
Brian S. Tucker
SCCM 2007 & SQL 2008
While I recently stated that using SQL 2008 with SCCM was a 'no-no", I did some testing and came up with some interesting information. I will share this info in greater detail as I redo what I did to verify the steps. However, I built a pure Server 2008 domain (every server is 2008) and added a SCCM box. I installed SQL 2005 WITH SP1 and then ran R2. Since R2 requires Reporting Services and RS being configured, I made the required configurations to RS and everything was running great. Now, WebDAV on 2008 is a whole ball of wax an I will be making a video to walk you through all the configurations as they are not straight forward.
Once I had every thing installed, I added the proper KB hotfix (there are 2. One for RTM and one if you are running SP1) and it installed without issue. I then upgraded to SQL 2008 and it's been running nonstop for 3 days without any issues. I wanted to simply point out that since MSFT had released the hotfixes, I was skeptical about the upgrade, but had to test it to see for myself. If I see any issues with SQL 2008, I will be sure to let you know, but for now, it seems to be fully functional, Even with WSUS 3.0 SP1 on the servers DB and reporting services.
Filed under: Systems Management, Windows Server 2008, WSUS 3.0, SCCM SP1, SQL 2008, SCCM R2 SQL Reporting