Re: Site Boundaries

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Steve,

SMS2003 has two type of boundary, Site and Roaming. By default Site
Boundaries are also Roaming Boundaries.
Roaming boundaries are used by Advanced Clients in two ways: 1. To detemine
which Primary Site they should be assigned to (Advanced Clients can only
"belong" to a Primary Site) 2. To determine where they actually are (eg an
Advanced Client might "live" on a Secondary Site and use some of its Site
Systems (DP, Proxy MP) but still belong to the Secondary's Paerent Primary.)

When you define Site Boundaries the Golden rule is that there must be no
overlapping boundaries or boundaries which are defined using the same subnet
info for two different sites.

So to answer your question, you will need to define boundaries for every
site you will be using.. If you have a sensible AD Site/Subnet layout you
can use AD Sites to define SMS Site boundaries.

HTH

Bernie


"spg7752" <spg7752@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:DA9D8180-D574-4093-A5E8-0BAE03F3792E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have just installed a SMS 2003 sp1 Primary site. I will be creating 4
secondary sites. My question is site boundaries. We had a SMS 2.0 sp5
environment previously. In that environment the IP subnets were
configured
on the secondaries. With no boundaries on the primary site server. Thus
clients would be assigned the site with their subnet.

In SMS 2003 I think I read someplace where the subnets needed to be
configured on the primary site server. Because the clients hone to the
primary. If this tis the case then the clients would be assigned to both
the
primary and the secondary correct? We are using advanced security and
advanced clients. We have Windows XP Professional Desktops.

So I guess my question is do the boundaries have to be configured on the
primary or the secondaries or both?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Steve


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