Re: Problem with clients with an incorrect Agent Site in Collectio

Steve,

Thanks for the advice. I know that the secondary site should get there
parent site code. But in the collection view in the SMS Admin Console many
of the computers without agents have an agent site assignment property of one
of the secondary sites instead of the primary site. This means that the
Advanced Client is not being distributed to these computers.

I need a way to reset this assignment, just to re-iterate the ACs are not
present on these computers they are just listed in the discovered computers
collections. The secondary site are not MP proxies.

Thanks

James

"Steve Thompson" wrote:

> "Jim Henry" <JimHenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:FE58C4F7-5FC3-4975-A0AD-C4D3716919DE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I need some urgent assistance on the Q below please. I am really stuck.
> >
> > I have a primary site with all site systems activated except distribution
> > and i have three secondary sites beneath this. I am working in a NT4
> domain
> > and have entered the necessary details into WINS. We are distributing
> only
> > Advanced Clients.
> >
> > I have recently discovered that secondary sites cannot manage Advanced
> > Clients. I had previously set all the secondary sites with boundaries for
> > distribution points separation. This means that all the clients that have
> > been discovered within the site boundary ranges have an agent site
> property
> > of one of the three secondary sites. I have now removed the secondary
> site
> > boundaries now and incorporated them into the primary site boundary. This
> > have not changed the agent site status for those discovered computers in
> the
> > collections view that do not have clients.
> >
> > Q1) How can I reset these fields to point to the primary site so they can
> > have advanced clients pushed to them? - (If I delete said computers from
> the
> > collections will the discovery methods find them again and re-assign them
> > correctly?)
>
> Unless I'm misunderstanding your question, I think you are misunderstanding
> some of the ways in which an AC (Advanced Clients) interacts with secondary
> sites. It's normal that they get the parent site code. If you have enabled
> the MP proxy on the secondary site, much of the communication occurs between
> the AC and the secondary site. You are correct that they are managed by the
> parent site.
>
> The advantages of secondary sites are primarily that of data being sent
> compressed from site to site, bandwidth throttling is available for sender
> controls. This makes them valuable for use at the other end of a WAN from
> the parent. There is no additional license fees for a secondary site, so the
> expense factor is positive ;)
>
> In case you actually were successful in putting the secondary site code in
> your AC -- and you need to force assignment to another site,you could
> script that. If you need a VBS example let me know.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
.

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