As part of the Configuration Manager 2012 installation you need to download the latest Configuration Manager update files as a pre-requisite to the installation. If you don’t have internet access on your server this can be a problem. Luckily you can pre-download the files using a utility file found in the installation media. Use the command below to download them separately then you can simply reference them during your Configuration Manager 2012 installation.

<Installation Media>\SMSSETUP\BIN\X64\setupdl.exe C:\DownloadFolder

You should obviously replace ‘C:\DownloadFolder’ with the folder of your choice and you should see a whole load of cab files and executables amongst a few other files. You can then simply reference that folder during your installation of Configuration Manager like so…