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Deploying SCCM - 9/3/2008 6:22:48 PM

dwertzd

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I am in the initial phases of planning an SCCM deployment. Has anyone had any experience with the Internet based clients? The site currently has 4200 clients of which 1000 will be Internet based. Since there are still Windows 2000 clients on the network, I was planning on creating 2 primary sites: Native mode central site and a mix mode site.

When I was reading the site planning worksheet (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693630.aspx) it stated "It is recommended that the central site in your Configuration Manager 2007 hierarchy not have any clients assigned to it." Has anyone done this? Is this really necessary?

My configuration so far for the Mixed Mode site was to have 3 servers: SQL server, server with the SLP, management point and reporting point. I was going to to have the SUP on that server but other post have mentioned not to place the WSUS on the same server as the reporting point. My 3rd server will have the distribution point, PXE, OSD, user state migration and SUP.

I am not sure what to with the Native mode site and the placement of the servers in the DMZ.

Can anyone with any experience let me know if this looks like a good approach. Also if anyone has pointers on the Internet based clients, I would love to read them.

Thank you,

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RE: Deploying SCCM - 9/3/2008 10:19:48 PM

mhudson

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We have our laptops, home computers, and some individual computer sites (2 computers) using IBC.

We have clients assigned to our central site. This is because we don't have the 1000's that you have. It is best not to for reporting, stress of the central site since it is already dealing with all the other primary sites. But this is all up to your HW, Internet, and structure.

We have our WSUS and reporting on the same site. Just need to watch ports and setup WSUS on the alterative ports. Again load is a factor based on your enviroment.

We don't have our Internet Based MP in our DMZ just because of the structure of our network. I know from others that if you have a MP in your DMZ you need to watch your ports and possibles the Certificate signing since you need to do some extra work for the DMZ. This also depends on how you have the MP setup.

Just to let you know our laptops run in Interet only mode when out in the field. If they connect via vpn then the client knows this and switches to Intranet Only.
Note: We have ALL public IP addresses for every computer on our network even VPN, we are in Higher Education.

The setting up was a bit at first but the client is smart. My computer patched after I turned on my laptop in the airport 100's of miles away, very quickly. No lag.

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Matthew Hudson
http://sms-hints-tricks.blogspot.com/
http://www.sccm-tools.com

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RE: Deploying SCCM - 9/4/2008 10:29:42 AM

dwertzd

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Thank you for the reply it gave some good insight. I am still struggling with this and how to best configure the environment for future growth. We are acquiring a company that has SMS in place and I want to be able to easily add them into our environment.

I think I need to design it out in the lab and hopefully the answers will come to me.

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