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Mastering System Center Configuration Manager

By : Krstevski
Book Image

Mastering System Center Configuration Manager

By: Krstevski

Overview of this book

This book is perfect for IT administrators who are looking to enhance their skills on system and asset management. A fair understanding of the core elements and applications related to SCCM would be helpful.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Planning your hierarchy structure


The new content distribution functionality in Configuration Manager 2012 gives you the ability to span a single site across multiple geographical locations using WAN links more efficiently. A well-designed System Center Configuration Manager hierarchy is more likely to contain fewer, flatter, simpler, and easier ways to manage sites. The top site can be a single primary site or a CAS. A primary site cannot have another primary site as a child site. If you want to extend your Configuration Manager hierarchy with a primary site, you need to create a CAS. The reasons to create additional sites are given as follows:

  • Exceeding the number of clients that a single primary site can handle

  • An additional primary site distributes the load and reduces the impact of a primary site failure

  • You might create an additional site to support Internet-based clients

  • Locations that use different language versions of the Configuration Manager client and system software

  • You might choose...