SCCM 2007 to 2012 Migration Overview


Hi guys,

This time we will look on SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012 Migration. SCCM 2012 is out there in market and it provides lots of cool new features  for it infrastructure management like New CAS site, HTTP & HTTPs communications, Application catalog , enhanced mobile devices support, support for Linux & Mac Clients, Enhanced reporting, Monitoring, ADR-Automatic deployments rules…..So list is really quite large.

So these are some differences which make you to think about SCCM 2012. If still you are running SCCM 2007 in your environment, you should think about SCCM 2012.

How you can upgrade to SCCM 2012?

There is no In-Place Upgrade option to upgrade from SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012.

You need to perform a Side-by-Side Migration for SCCM 2012.




What Migration exactly does?

When you migrate data from a source hierarchy, you access data from the site databases that you identify in the source infrastructure and then transfer that data to your current environment. Migration does not change the data in the source hierarchy, but instead discovers sthe data and stores a copy in the database of the destination hierarchy.


Now which are the supported Migration Scenarios for SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012?

You need at least one SCCM 2007 Infra with SP2 version to migrate on SCCM 2012.

Destination hierarchy
Source hierarchy
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager with no service pack
Configuration Manager 2007 SP2
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1
Configuration Manager 2007 SP2
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1
System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
Configuration Manager 2007 SP2
System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager

Languages That Are Supported for Migration
English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

You can migrate the following types of objects:
  • Collections
  • Advertisements
  • Boundaries
  • Software distribution packages 
  • Virtual application packages
  • Software Updates:
    • Deployments 
    • Deployment packages
    • Templates
    • Software update lists
  • Operating System Deployment: 
    • Boot images 
    • Driver packages
    • Drivers
    • Images
    • Packages
    • Task sequences
  • Desired Configuration Management: 
    • Configuration baselines 
    • Configuration items
  • Asset Intelligence customizations
  • Software metering rules


  • Queries  
  • Security rights and instances for the site and objects
  • Configuration Manager 2007 reports from SQL Server Reporting Services
  • Configuration Manager 2007 web reports
  • Client inventory and history data
  • AMT client provisioning information
  • Files in the client cache

hope it is informative...

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