First of all, love the step by step. I'm currently in the process of setting up or new site, moving from ConfigMgr 2007 R3. Our current setup is configured on one box. We are now separating the DB from the SCCM server. So as a result I have some questions. Add to that the current configuration does not have the firewall service enabled so I have nothing to mirror or Is it necessary to add the DB server to the System Management container along with the main site server? Also, the GP you created for the SQL firewall port configuration will be effective on all site servers. We are not using a GP should I configure the firewall ports 1433 & 4022 on the ConfigMgr server as well as the separated SQL server? Any additional considerations I should be aware of? I appreciate any input. Thanks!