Re: SMS setup at remote location

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"John" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxx(Don't Spam)> wrote in message
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Hello Everyone
My company is in the process of settings up SMS at all remote locations.
We are leaning toward implement a flat hierarchy with would consist of 1
central primary site located at the main headquarters and the remote sites
all secondary child sites.
Each remote site has approx about 40 users some of which some are laptop
users that occasionally visit the main office.
In regards to the remote site I think having a local dist and a proxy
management server will be sufficient however I was thinking of having a
local MP at each secondary local , can this be do and if so what are
differences of having a local MP compare to having Proxy MP at the
secondary sites..
Any feedback would certainly be appreciated..

If you define a Management Point at a secondary site server, it will be a
Management Point Proxy.

I would recommend that approach, at each secondary site define a local
distribution point and a Management Point Proxy since the MPP will cache
some of the client requests for policy. Package distributions from the
parent site to the secondary site are sent compressed and you can take
advantage of sender bandwidth controls....

The clients will still communicate with the parent site server MP, the
Secondary site MPP will reduce the amount of traffic that needs to flow
(directly) between the client in the secondary site and the parent.

The primary advantage is network efficiency for software distributions and
hardware/software inventory for those clients in the remote locations.

Steve


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