Pre-Downloading SCCM 2012 R2 Prerequisites

Since SCCM 2012 or R2 requires installation of some prerequisites to be installed prior installing the SCCM; there are some shortcuts to do it, and not doing it while the SCCM gets installed.

Option: 1

Find/Locate for the SetupDL.EXE in your distribution or the download path you have stored in. Probably you will find it in the following folder:

X:\SCCM-Directory\BIN\X64

Now issue the following command to download the files in a temporary directory:

setupdl.exe c:\sccmprereq

Where the folder sccmrprereq directory is precreated. After issuing the command you will see that approximately 406 files will be downloaded, and it could be 384MB.

Option: 2

Download the following script and follow the instruction

SCCM 2012 R2 Prerequisite Downloader: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/SCCM-2012-Prerequisites-1ce58746