Hi, I need to sort out our SCCM system which is a mess. What I plan on doing is building a new site/system completely separate to the other one then moving rebuilding the old secondaries one by one and adding them to the new system. I would also like to move the clients over site by site. We are going to be managing the sites by subnet rather than AD site. Are there any problems that I will run into? Is there anything I need to remove from AD when removing the old servers? Has anyone else done this sort of work? Cheers Chris

Yes you should remove all the old data from AD? If the old primary site is still up, the first trick is to remove the boundaries from it. This will remove the data from AD too. (not all data but most of it) The second thing to do is to NOT user IP subnets, use IP range instead. IP subnet and AD boundaries are evil. http://www.enhansoft.com/

Thanks The way we want it setup is 1 central with lots of secondaries. Would it be possible to run the central site as native mode and all the secondaries as mixed?

Thanks The way we want it setup is 1 central with lots of secondaries. Would it be possible to run the central site as native mode and all the secondaries as mixed? No, all clients at a secondary site must be in native mode too. http://www.enhansoft.com/

A few comments here. In your original post you said "moving rebuilding the old secondaries". Not sure if you forgot to delete moving after correctring it or what but I wanted to stress that you cannot move a secondary between primary sites -- your only option to completely rebuild them. Also, a primary site is not called a central site unless it is a parent to other primary sites. A primary site with just secondary sites is not a central site. Why would you want the secondaries not in native mode and also, what's your motivation for native mode in the first place?Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | Twitter @JasonSandys

Hi, Sorry, i will be completely rebuilding the old secondaries into the new setup. We have decided that we will be going all mixed mode for ease of use. I am slightly confused by "A primary site with just secondary sites is not a central site." We were planning to have our root server with the database on and then lots of secondaries for clients to get their data from. Will this not work?

"Central" in ConfigMgr terms carries a specific meaning: central primary sites are primary sites with other primary sites reporting to it. If all you have is a single primary and multiple secondaries, that single primary, by defintion, is not a central primary site.Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | Twitter @JasonSandys