Re: Secondary Sites

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Thanks for the follow up. So... I don't have to create secondary sites?
With my network configuration as discribed, installing the advanced client on
the pc's being added to the site will they then start to commuicate with
primary site server? Or, for organization.... Adding two secondary sites
would be a better choice. I guess I am confused on the secondary site
configuration.

Couple of questions...

Do I need secondary sites?

Can the advanced client talk to the existing primary site server if
installed on the new PC's being added to the forest?

Will the secondary site help me organize the PC's for software rollouts?



"Cathy Moya [MS]" wrote:

Generally you create additional sites (primary or secondary) because you
have to cross a slow link or because you have different business or
technical requirements, or because you need to have different language. If
you get REALLY big sites, you might want to divide them for performance
reasons, but you're talking tens of thousands of clients, not just the 1000
you mention. Your SMS sites do not have to have any correlation at all to
your domains. If anything, your SMS sites tend to correlate with your Active
Directory sites, not your AD domains.

You mention that you have a child domain within your LAN. Do you need to
manage that separately for some reason? Maybe the parent domain needs to use
remote tools but the child domain doesn't, or vice versa. Maybe you want to
collect inventory more frequently at the child domain than at the parent. In
those cases, it would make sense to create a separate SMS site. But if you
will manage them the same, they child domain could be part of the existing
SMS site.

Whether you make the addtional site a primary or a secondary depends on how
you want to manage the other site. Secondary sites dont' require an
additional server license, and don't require their own SQL server, so that's
fiscal happiness. On the other hand, for that child domain within your LAN,
it is possible for you to create it as a primary site and keep it's database
on the same SQL server that hosts the current SMS site database. (You just
can't put the SMS Provider for two different sites on the same database, so
one Provider would have to be installed on the site server.)

That's why Kim gave you the standard answer: It depends. Depends on what
your goals are.

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Cathy Moya, CISSP, MCSE: Security
Technical Writer, Management & Solutions Division User Assistance

Check out the SMS Technical FAQ:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2003/techfaq/default.mspx
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"mshill2" <mshill2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bandwidth should not be an issue. One child domain will be within my LAN
and
the other has a 6mb MPLS circuit. Total client count for all locations
will
be in the neighborhood of 1000. IT support will be local at each location.
Not sure how to comment on the last part of your question "same general
settings possible". Thanks for your response.



"Kim Oppalfens [MVP]" <""Kim dot Oppalfen" wrote:

mshill2 wrote:
What would you like to know?

"Kim Oppalfens [MVP]" <""Kim dot Oppalfen" wrote:

mshill2 wrote:
I have a primary site and 2 child domains coming in the near future.
Is
adding the child domains as secondary sites the right direction? If
so, will
I have to install SMS 2003 on a member server of the child domain?
Or... will
advanced client talk across the domains? This is a single forrest AD
domain.

Thanks for any input.


Whether it is the right direction is difficult to tell without more
technical information. But it is definitely technically feasible.

--
"Everyone is an expert at something"
Kim Oppalfens - Sms Expert for lack of any other expertise
Windows Server System MVP - SMS
http://www.blogcastrepository.com/blogs/kim_oppalfenss_systems_management_ideas/default.aspx

Bandwidth available, number of clients, it personnel present, same
general settings possible?

--
"Everyone is an expert at something"
Kim Oppalfens - Sms Expert for lack of any other expertise
Windows Server System MVP - SMS
http://www.blogcastrepository.com/blogs/kim_oppalfenss_systems_management_ideas/default.aspx




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