Hello all,

I'm trying out the 180 day evaluation version of SCCM 2012 R2 downloaded from Microsoft as part of a small POC, (VHD format) which is pre-configured and installed with all the pre-requisites.

As part of this exercise, I wanted to perform a simple discovery of devices in SCCM 2012 but after enabling all the "discovery methods" I do not see any devices in the collection after running the discovery. The VHD format is configured with a 'contoso' domain and this feature is 'locked' as a result I'm not able to configure this 'vhd' format to our internal domain to help discovery. 

My question: is there a way to by-pass this domain and perform discovery or is this a limitation in the evaluation version of SCCM? or am I missing something?

Any help on this is appreciated.

thanks

I don't believe so.  You should just download the bits from the VLC and install it for yourself.  You could have a small test environment in no time at all.  Collocate your PS and SQL server, add a DP, and you should be close to lab testing.  Make sure you are not running discovery across your whole environment if this is just a lab. 

Thanks Jheinikel for your reply. I will proceed with a new set up altogether.

I'm kinda taken aback why Microsoft is offering a 6 month EVAL version to let us test around but not allowing us to customize it, rather tying our hands with what ever they are offering.

Its a fully built and full-featured eval.  If they left it to everyone to built manually, you wouldn't get a feel for how the whole system functions because you would be busy building/fixing.  Unfortunately, handing it over fully built is the only way to ensure a successful eval.  You'll be better off with your own setup.  Have fun.

Thanks J, appreciate your help.