Pre-Downloading SCCM 2012 Prerequisites

As all of you know, one of the first installation steps is the Update Prerequisite Components.

If you don’t have access to internet on your SCCM server then you have to download the required updates on another computer, import the folder on the SCCM server and have SCCM setup pointing to the folder.

In the previous version (SCCM 2007) the command was Setup.exe /downloads <target dir>. In SCCM 2012 this has changed, and the new command is SetupDL.exe <target dir>.

The SetupDL.exe file is located in the SMSSETUP\BIN\X64 directory.

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Thank you for making this an option!

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  The command would just be Setup.exe <target dir>. as /download is not a valid switch for this particular exe. The available switches for this exe are /verify (will just verify the manifest and the contents of the target folder specified, but does not download and /noui  for silent download.

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  I struggles with this for a couple of days but found my way around! Here is how this can be done: ashfaqshinwary.wordpress.com/.../downloading-configuration-manager-2012-prerequisites

  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2016
    Thank you, you helped me alot

• Anonymous
  April 25, 2012
  Thanks Dude.... very useful info......

• Anonymous
  June 08, 2012
  The command is setupdl.exe <target dir>. You can not manually download it on a non 64 bit OS machine

• Anonymous
  June 08, 2012
  I am testing this in a Lab environment, is there any way that i can manually download only ENGLISH language pre requisites....

• Anonymous
  April 01, 2013
  is there any direct link from microsoft to download sccm 2012 prerequisites?? _harshithraj

• Anonymous
  October 18, 2013
  so i ran this and it downloaded 56 files, but when I went to use those files on my SCCM server it said that one file was missing and failed out.  the file that is missing is: configmgr.manifest.cab.  error message from configmgrsetup.log is:  ERROR: Manifest file \serversharefolderConfigMgr.Manifest.cab not found.  Verification failed.  $$<Configuration Manager Setup><date time><thread=1876 (0x754)>

• Anonymous
  February 25, 2014
  Thank ... it is very useful information

• Anonymous
  June 21, 2014
  Thanks A lot for sharing information

• Anonymous
  June 22, 2014
  Thanks a lot for sharing this information

• Anonymous
  November 11, 2014
  "An error has occurred while attempting to download ..."is the error message i got.
  i have got internet on my Virtual Machine but it's still not working

• Anonymous
  December 22, 2014
  Good Work , Rathish Ravikumar & Giulio Astori

• Anonymous
  April 16, 2015
  Thanks for this post !

• Anonymous
  August 17, 2015
  Thanks for sharing information

• Anonymous
  August 17, 2016
  Now a days I am planning and Testing SCCM Current Branch 1511. I came across same error on Yesterday.I have tried each and every things from windows update to user creation.Finally I observed that my site server is in evaluation mode so I activated my windows server 2012 R2 and the rest progress is in real peace and dont get any error in my logs !

• Anonymous
  October 12, 2016
  Thanks for sharing.

• Anonymous
  December 05, 2016
  Merci