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Central Site and clients??? - 4/24/2008 10:39:20 AM

Oyd

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It is recommended that the central site in your Configuration Manager 2007 hierarchy not have any clients assigned to it.
Afraid I’m have trouble understanding this statement. Does it mean that I need a secondary site for clients? Or can I just put clients in the primary site and would this not also be a central site. Sorry, just a little confused with this statement. Any help would me greatly appreciated.
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RE: Central Site and clients??? - 4/24/2008 10:51:24 AM

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In fact your Central server is a Primary server.

So in case of very simple hierarchy for instance:

1 Primary (central) server at a Head Office with 2 connected secondary servers (Branch Offices),
in this scenario you can assign clients to the primary site

In a Scenario with more Head Offices you need for instance 1 primary per HO,
To admininster these Primaries you put a Central server above these primaries. In this case you don't
assign clients to your Central Server.

Check the Technet Capacity Planning docs, this tells you which items you should take into account to decide when you want to install a Primary site or a Secondary site ...

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RE: Central Site and clients??? - 4/24/2008 1:06:25 PM

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If your configuration is as such that you really only need a single site, which would also be considered a "central" site, to manage all of your systems, then by all means, assign the clients to it.

The recommendation that you quoted is mostly for instances where you're going to need mulitple sites to manage your clients; such as when they are across WAN links in different geographical locations. Then you would have a site at each location, and they would report up to the central site at "headquarters". In this case, the central site is more of a reporting server as well as a means to maintain packages, advertisements and resource collections (for all sites) in a single location to make administration a little easier.

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RE: Central Site and clients??? - 4/24/2008 1:10:24 PM

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thank you.....i really appreciate the help

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