[sccm 2012] Unable to promote pre-production client

[Geoff]

I've been working through the in-console upgrades to SCCM 2012 R2 as it's something that'd been neglected and I need certain fixes and features installed for some planned work. However I hit a snag. I installed the KB3174008 client hotfix for 1602 and I decided to use the 'deploy to pre-production' option for the client hotfix and just use our 'IT Dept' collection to test it.

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/clients/manage/upgrade/test-client-upgrades

 

Here's my current situation:

 

 

The snag is that I've come to promote the client to production and the option is greyed out. I have googled and there a couple of things that come up. I've tried both the suggestions listed:

 

https://foxdeploy.com/2016/06/24/sccm-1602-unable-to-upgrade-client-solved/

Henk's blog: Unable to promote pre-production client in ConfigMgr Current Branch

 

Any other ideas?

[Geoff]

Decided to live dangerously and push 1606 straight out, thus side stepping the issue.

[tred44]

Are you using the console on your Primary Site server?

I thought I Had the same issue when using the console on my own PC, but when you open up the console on the Site Server it then allows you to promote the Pre-Production Client.

[Geoff]

Makes sense. I was using the console on a client PC IIRC. There's a hotfix I can install to 1606 that includes a client patch so I can test it that way (then move to 1610 regardless).