Re: Newbie SMS Admin Question about Distribution Points

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Mike,

There are no licensing costs associated with secondary sites.

Secondary sites give the added benifit of being able to control when the packages are sent to the distirbution point and what bandwidth is used which is possibly more of a concern over multiple time zones.

You can also use protected distribution points, but packages will be sent immediately and uncontrolled once assigned.

You don't mention what size links these are?

Regards,
John

"Mike Young" <MikeYoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6EBEBD50-CCA3-40AB-AC71-629C973B573E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've just installed a primary site server on one of my HQ servers (SMS 2003
SP2) and enabled DP, MP, SLP, CAP and RP roles on it. We have 15 other plants
around the world, most of which are connected via MPLS (WAN links). Each
remote site has one or two Win2000 or 2003 servers running Exchange server
2003, DC, File & Print services. The biggest remote site has 150 clients and
the smallest 10 clients. I had assumed I'd need to put secondary sites at the
remote sites but my boss swears that you can just put the distribution point
role on a server with the pre-req's (BITS, IIS) installed with making it a
secondary site server (thus saving licensing costs). I have scoured the
Concepts planning and deployment guide as well as the operations guide and
neither have explained this in detail. Can anyone let me know what the system
requirements are for the DP role and whether it needs to be a site server
(secondary specifically)

Thank you,


.

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