Where is the download link for SCEP Client Offline installer for x86 & x64 altest greatest version (4.6.305 as of today)

Where is the download link for SCEP Client Offline installer for x86 & x64 latest greatest version (4.6.305 as of today)?

The answer IS NOT IT AND NEVER WILL BE "DOES NOT EXIST"!!!!!! MUST NEVER NEED TO RUN UPDATES TO GET IT!!!!!!!!! THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE ANSWER IS THE LINK!!!!! DUH GET YOUR ACT IN GEAR MS!!!!!!!!!!

Ralph

January 30th, 2015 7:59pm

SCEP is part of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. Once you've successfully installed ConfigMgr, you'll be able to grab it from the client installation files. You may also be able to get it from the ConfigMgr media (can't say I've actually looked for it there though). Updated versions of the installer are added to the ConfigMgr client installation source files with both service packs and some cumulative updates (as well as some hotfixes I believe but not positive on that one).

There is no public download link because it's not a freely available product and is only available with ConfigMgr as mentioned.

Not sure where the hostility is coming from, but please tone it down -- folks here would like to help but part of being helped is being polite and providing complete and useful information. Perhaps if you would explain your scenario and your intended use of the offline installer, we could help even more.

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January 30th, 2015 9:17pm

Cumulative Update 4 for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 was just released. If you download the hotfix file, you can use an app like 7-zip to extract the exes and msi file to eventually get to the full scepinstall.exe installer for version 4.6.305. As Jason said, it's not a free product, so you should only do this if you are properly licensed.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739



February 2nd, 2015 11:02pm

Cumulative Update 4 for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 was just released. If you download the hotfix file, you can use an app like 7-zip to extract the exes and msi file to eventually get to the full scepinstall.exe installer for version 4.6.305. As Jason said, it's not a free product, so you should only do this if you are properly licensed.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739



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February 3rd, 2015 4:00am

Cumulative Update 4 for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 was just released. If you download the hotfix file, you can use an app like 7-zip to extract the exes and msi file to eventually get to the full scepinstall.exe installer for version 4.6.305. As Jason said, it's not a free product, so you should only do this if you are properly licensed.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739



February 3rd, 2015 4:00am

Cumulative Update 4 for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 was just released. If you download the hotfix file, you can use an app like 7-zip to extract the exes and msi file to eventually get to the full scepinstall.exe installer for version 4.6.305. As Jason said, it's not a free product, so you should only do this if you are properly licensed.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739



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February 3rd, 2015 7:00am

Cumulative Update 4 for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 was just released. If you download the hotfix file, you can use an app like 7-zip to extract the exes and msi file to eventually get to the full scepinstall.exe installer for version 4.6.305. As Jason said, it's not a free product, so you should only do this if you are properly licensed.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739



February 3rd, 2015 7:00am

Cumulative Update 4 for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 was just released. If you download the hotfix file, you can use an app like 7-zip to extract the exes and msi file to eventually get to the full scepinstall.exe installer for version 4.6.305. As Jason said, it's not a free product, so you should only do this if you are properly licensed.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739



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February 3rd, 2015 7:00am

Cumulative Update 4 for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 was just released. If you download the hotfix file, you can use an app like 7-zip to extract the exes and msi file to eventually get to the full scepinstall.exe installer for version 4.6.305. As Jason said, it's not a free product, so you should only do this if you are properly licensed.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739



February 3rd, 2015 7:00am

Cumulative Update 4 for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 was just released. If you download the hotfix file, you can use an app like 7-zip to extract the exes and msi file to eventually get to the full scepinstall.exe installer for version 4.6.305. As Jason said, it's not a free product, so you should only do this if you are properly licensed.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739



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February 3rd, 2015 7:00am

Thanks to all for the information. I work in higher ed. We have SCCM latest version, fully licensed. Unfortunately the individual who manages the SC does not have a clue as to where to find the SCEP installer. I sent him links from MS that shows him where it is supposed to be. The version he say's is on our SC Management server is 4.3. I, in the past, was able to get 4.5 independent of him and it has been working well for me but it is time to use the latest greatest version instead. I should just as easily be able to get 4.6. As far as licensing goes, if the product was correctly designed it should just work itself out just like it does for the 4.5 version I was able to easily find and download.

As for the link given by KevinMJohnston, thanks by the way, its the closest I have come to getting what I need but all I get is a spinning wheel in Firefox, the only browser one should ever need. In IE I get prompted for an email address, which it should NEVER EVER DO!!!!!!!!!! I did give them my address, but alas, after waiting over 30 mins. I still don't have a link to the update or the CU4 Config MGR update mentioned. (Another reason I am not very nice to MS, along with, see below...) Please send me the link that they are suppose to send me in the email.

As for the intensity of the request it comes from not being able to find the update on my own. (Amongst a million other complaints as MS makes my job harder and harder, just think of all the lost productivity and extra repair efforts needed because MS stopped allowing you to do upgrade/repair installs from the install discs. You have to have a working OS to do it, or you will lose your settings etc and will have to re-install all of your software etc. How STUPID IS THAT! Can't use it to fix a blown driver or BSOD problem like you could in XP.  There is no excuse for that, I know better. So you can see why I have nothing good to say about MS etc etc.) There is no excuse for that! If the MS updater has it available then IT MUST BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR STANDALONE DOWNLOAD PERIOD. That goes for ALL updates PERIOD.  I use these updates and many others etc so that once I seal an image for a PC it has the latest greatest version of everything. It is quicker to get it stand alone in advance and installing than waiting for MS updates to do so. Also I prefer to config my images so that the Av installs after first boot. These are cloned PCs. Many of these PC are used in labs and are frozen. Here, the settings for the SCEP AV being pushed from above can cause major problems for the users i.e. the scheduled scan feature. If it is on when students are taking tests and they take more than 5 or 10 mins on question MS is stupid enough to start scanning causing the system to become unresponsive. This has caused students to breakdown in tears thinking the system is hosed and they just lost their tests. I have to do some creative reg hack, setting owner as "Guest", a disabled account, etc. to keep these settings from being changed. (Our SC managers push policies that work for the faculty but break the lab systems which are frozen, so I have to out hack them, should not be, but it is, we are trying to get that fixed, but bureaucracy and people afraid to share power etc makes it hard.)  These settings unfortunately will prevent the AV from installing so I need to be able to manually do it after I have set the reg to allow it.  And I could go on. Who knows when or why someone may need to do a manual update of something. I just had 3 systems fail 12 updates, yet when I manually downloaded them and installed them they ALL installed without failure. I did NOTHING in between the auto update and the manual, yet it was the manual way that worked. Maybe if MS could fix those kind of issues then no one would need to get stand alone update files.) That is not for MS to worry about. It is, however, their responsibility to make it so that I can choose what will work best for my environment, which only I could know. DUH. I have had issues in the past with MS AV and other brands being installed before "sealing" the images. etc. etc. etc.

As you can see, there is not enough space on the world wide web to list all thousands of legitimate reasons to give Microsoft a hard time so I will do so on a case by case bases knowing I am probably spitting in to the wind, but hey somebody has to have the guts to do it. MS MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO SIMPLY GET AWAY WITH IT! They Must be called to the proverbial carpet.

Maybe if people who are MVPs would not be afraid to join the choruses they would be embarrassed, (though it should be done out of moral obligation not embarrassment), enough to fix these obviously fixable problems etc. etc. etc. I have over 30 years in the IT business, the IBM XT did not exist until my senior year in college. You are not going to be able to convince me that there is a legitimate reason, copy protection IS NOT IT, to prevent me from fixing blown OS via re-install using install disc when OS will not boot. Nor are you going to be able to find legitimate reason for the SCEP 4.6.305 update to be so hard to get.

Thanks again for the help, still waiting for email from MS, NOT COOL MS! NO EXCUSE!!!!!

Ralph

February 4th, 2015 5:10pm

Happy days are here again!!!!! Thanks Keven!!!!! I finally got the email with the link and was able to download the CU4 update and extract the SCEP ver 4.6.305 that I needed. It is a shame and should be a major embarrassment to MS that it was such a hassle to get it. To save other needing to give personal info for such things here is the link to the CU4 update, I would ove to give link to just the SCEP installer but I have no place I can put it for that purpose.

http://hotfixv4.microsoft.com/ConfigMgrV5/nosp/ConfigMgr_2012_R2_CU4_KB3026739_ENU/05.00.7958.1501/free/482009_ENU_x64_zip.exe

Thanks again go to Kevin,

Ralph

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February 4th, 2015 5:43pm

You're welcome. Another tip that might help if you run into this for future versions:

You (or someone who has access) can find direct links to software updates via the ConfigMgr console.

Go to the Software Update node and search for a specific update ("endpoint protection client" for example). Right-click on the update and go to properties. Click on the Content Information tab which will show you the source path. Select a row with your mouse then hit Ctrl+C, then paste into Notepad so you can easily isolate and select the URL.

For example, here are the direct links to the individual files (x64 and x86 versions) that make up this update: Update for System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 Client - 4.6.305.0 (KB2998627)

http://wsus.ds.download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/crup/2014/09/updateinstall_8a2b5a6d5ab0007129bc420e73ee92d503a2557d.exe

http://wsus.ds.download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/crup/2014/09/updateinstall_7229bbd5ff1bfe0b6ea113bd6a751c494cdae1b9.exe

It doesn't solve the problem of the latest full installer not being available for direct download. However, in your scenario, you should be able to script/chain the latest available scepinstall.exe with the latest udpateinstall_...exe so you can still manually install without having to wait for the auto-update mechanism. Anyway, just an idea.

February 4th, 2015 6:42pm

Sorry, but ultimately, you need a vacation.
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February 5th, 2015 11:34am

You are right I do need a vacation, but before I can take one I now need to find the latest greatest scepinstall.exe file, ONCE AGAIN!!!!!

They are now at version 4.7.209 which is NOT in the Cumulative update I have a link for from above.

SO Microsoft WHERE IS THE PERMANENT LINK FOR ME TO ALWAYS BE ABLE TO FIND AND DOWNLOAD THE CURRENT VERSION OF THE SCEP CLIENT WHEN EVER I CLICK ON SAID LINK??????????????????

After posting the original request for this link back in January 2015 MS should have by now already created said link, and advertised it so that AT ALL TIMES THE FOLLOWING SEARCH QUERY WILL ALWAYS FIND IT,  YES ALWAYS FIND IT.... "scepinstall.exe offline installer" THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE FOR THIS except of course incompetence, greed, or BOTH!

Get your act in gear MS!!!!!!!!

Thanks to all who can help Microsoft provide this obviously should have always been there link.

MS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH SUCH INCOMPETENCE OR ARROGANCE, which ever it may be that has prevented them from providing this link!!!!!!!!!!

Ralph

PS...

I have been able to capture, during an update the epplauncher.exe file and its accompanying folders etc, but that installer does not support any command line switches like the scepinstall.exe version for the client installer does. Needless to say that is ridiculous and stupid and incompetent of Microsoft to do, but that is what they did so needless to say I need the SCEPINSTAL.EXE version of the client installer that supports the command line switches, x64 and x86 in one file, no need to program in a check for that. And of course a link is absolutely required so that I can always find the latest version and I will never have to re-write my install script every time the install files changes, or a new version comes out, nor spend time trying to capture the file during an update etc. etc. etc

April 16th, 2015 5:52pm

From one of my previous comments....

"You (or someone who has access) can find direct links to software updates via the ConfigMgr console.

Go to the Software Update node and search for a specific update ("endpoint protection client" for example). Right-click on the update and go to properties. Click on the Content Information tab which will show you the source path. Select a row with your mouse then hit Ctrl+C, then paste into Notepad so you can easily isolate and select the URL."

4.7.209.0 direct link: http://wsus.ds.download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/crup/2015/02/scepinstall_230274d8b20bbe30fb94a287fd82670af0309ea4.exe

Not pretty, but it works. Have a nice vacation! :-)

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April 16th, 2015 5:59pm

Thank you very much that is what I was looking for. It is to bad MS likes to hide the SCEP Client installer.

I will probably need this info again the next time they update the client.

As for how to find it via ConfigMgr, the guy who has access dosen't have a clue even when I send him links to your instructions.

Kevin, Thanks again for the help,

Ralph

April 17th, 2015 3:25pm

It's not hidden, it's just not intended to be used manually. Which begs the question: why are you installing this manually?
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April 17th, 2015 3:35pm

It may be that your ConfigMgr admin can't see the Endpoint Protection client updates in the console because they haven't configured the software update point to synchronize those updates. The "critical updates" classification must be selected, as well as the "Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010" product. (Yes, that is the same product specification for System Center Endpoint Protection.) The following link explains it all:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2014/03/27/anti-malware-platform-updates-for-endpoint-protection-will-be-released-to-mu.aspx

(which is kind of funny because I see that you've commented on that blog post...so I assume you've read it as well?)

April 17th, 2015 6:16pm

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