Re: Questions on Site Boundaries

From: Kevin (keving79_at_msn.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:40:38 -0500

Cathy-

Our servers are on seperate server only subnets. However, they are in the
same AD site as our clients. Would this mean that using the AD Site as the
subnet boundary would be out of the question? I'm thinking yes. Thanks for
all the help.

Kevin

"Cathy Moya [MSFT]" <camoya@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:99F0AFF0-D98F-42EA-8F36-5B0CC177B8C7@microsoft.com...
> Hang on - it sounds like there is a separate server subnet and a separate
> client subnet. So I don't think overlapping boundaries will be a huge
> issue
> here. The biggest pain with overlapping is that client don't know which
> site
> to assign to with automatic assignment. Do any of the client boundaries
> overlap?
> Cathy Moya
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
> "Kevin" wrote:
>
>> Kim-
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, our servers are all part of the
>> same
>> AD site as our clients. Thus, since I need to have a SMS Primary to
>> service
>> the servers and another to service the desktops, it appears that the only
>> solution is to use IP Subnets. What do you think?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kevin
>>
>> "Kim Oppalfens" <kim@computacenter.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.1be73cfa8f305688989907@msnews.microsoft.com...
>> >
>> > Yes, it would present problems. You are not supposed to overlap
>> > boundaries between sites in sms 2003. So you will have to remove the
>> > boundaries for at least 2 of the 3 servers.
>> >
>> > I suggest removing the ip subnet from all of them and working with
>> > Active directory sitenames as boundaries. This is much more flexible
>> > that the old ip subnet way.
>> >
>> > Kim Oppalfens
>> > In article <#MoxyUquEHA.3352@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>, keving79@msn.com
>> > says...
>> >> I've got 3 SMS Servers that I'll be setting up, 1 as a Central Site
>> >> (no
>> >> direct clients) and 2 Primary Sites. One primary will be for our
>> >> servers
>> >> and the other primary for our desktop clients. We have one subnet
>> >> dedicated
>> >> for servers and all 3 SMS Servers will be on that "server" subnet. I
>> >> know
>> >> that when SMS installs it automatically adds the subnet ID that it is
>> >> in
>> >> to
>> >> site boundaries. So this means I'll have 3 SMS servers all having the
>> >> same
>> >> subnet ID in site boundaries. Is this going to present problems? If
>> >> so,
>> >> how should I resolve it? What will happen if I remove the "server"
>> >> subnet
>> >> ID from both the central site server and the primary site server for
>> >> desktops? Thus leaving that subnet ID only for the primary site that
>> >> will
>> >> be serving clients on the "server subnet".
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Kevin
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > --
>> > Check out the SMS Technical FAQ:
>> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2003/techfaq/default
>> > .mspx
>>
>>
>>

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