revingtosh Posted November 15, 2012 Report post Posted November 15, 2012 Hi, Ive got a Win 2008r2 running a brand new installation of sccm 2012. (24gb of ram. 24 cores, 2TB Disk) Network is a hub and spoke configuration. We have 20 remote sites (possibly going to grow to 100 over time) connecting back into the hub site, each spoke has a 10meg full duplex WAN link and each site also has its own class C subnet assigned to it. No more than about 100 client machines per spoke, all running Win7 Professional, Office 2010, all machines throughout the estate are members of the same Active Directory. I need to be able to push out Operating systems, WSUS, software packages etc from the hub. Am i better configuring secondary sites at each of the remote locations? Of will DPs suffice? Many thanks - cool site by the way! Revingtosh Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Man Posted November 15, 2012 Report post Posted November 15, 2012 DPs are suffice especially with the excellent links you have between sites and a single namespace so they all can share the same site code! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
revingtosh Posted November 15, 2012 Report post Posted November 15, 2012 Each of these sites will need to be managed independently of each other though, so im assuming that this wont cause any problems? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Man Posted November 15, 2012 Report post Posted November 15, 2012 By managed independantly you mean by assigned IT person?? EDIT: Good advice on infrastructure... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682077.aspx Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
revingtosh Posted November 15, 2012 Report post Posted November 15, 2012 Sorry - allow me to clarify. All sites will be managed by one IT section. What i mean is that each of the sites all run different software and configuration settings etc. Cheers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Man Posted November 15, 2012 Report post Posted November 15, 2012 Software is not an issue just have enough disk space on PS to cope with the needs for software at all sites......with the site specific software create the package on the PS and distribute accordingly to the destination site....you will have quite an extensive software source on your PS if there is a vast amount of different software.......if you can package all your software then 1 image will do so you do not have to create unique site specific images also.....just create a TS for each site and attach the packages appropriately....... Each IT admin once trained can have a console and you can set security measures on the consoles so that they only have access to certain nodes of the console i:e software node..& Asset and Compliance.but they will however probably be able to see all collections(not sure if you can lock this down to which collections they get access to)?? Anyone else have any ideas on this one?? can you clarify on your configuration settings? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
revingtosh Posted November 15, 2012 Report post Posted November 15, 2012 Yes. We would want to retain full control from the center, so we wouldnt be delegating any control out to the subnets. Hell no! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Man Posted November 15, 2012 Report post Posted November 15, 2012 I think you have answered your question.....who will be using the secondary sites then?? You( if so then go PS with DPs all centrally managed with soldiers on foot at remote sites to f12 machines!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
revingtosh Posted November 15, 2012 Report post Posted November 15, 2012 Sorry - forgive my ignorance... what does PS mean? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Man Posted November 15, 2012 Report post Posted November 15, 2012 Primary Site! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
