Best Practice Configuration for SCCM 2007 R2 SP2 for 2500 students
Hello, I have a fairly general question and I am reasonably new to SCCM 2007 (about 6 month experience) and I have just implemented this at a school where i am currently working. Everything I have setup thus far is now working the way it should in re: to operating system deployment, app deployment, asset config (not everything worked the 1st time thats for sure ;) and i have a question on best practices for my configuration for my environment. Heres is a run down on my current config: SCCMserver - 1 x x64 VM server with W2K8 SP1 and SCCM 2007 R2 SP2 (dual intel xeon 2.5ghz cpus & 4gb ram) SCCMDB - 1 x x64 server W2K8 SP1 with SQL 2005 SP3 - separate DB server Storage - fibre channel HP SAN with about 400gb (we have a lot of XP images) I have 1 prmary site setup in mixed mode with AD site boundaries with no secondary site The school I am at has 1 Windows Domain with 2 sites. The main site has around 2000 students and the 2nd site has about 500 with is connected via a 4mb leased line. There are about 300-400 teaching and administrative staff in the whole school. I have extended the AD schema. At the moment I have all the roles installed on SCCMserver which are: AI, component, device management, distr pt, man pt, pxe, report, server locator, site server, site system, software update, state migration SCCMDB - has component server role, site system and site DB. My questions are: Will my current setup cope with the workload thats required for multiple app deployments where the software packages would never exceed 1 GB? Should I turn site 2 into a secondary site? What would be the reasons for this as at present the 4mb pipe seems as though its coping with any software distribution and it seems a lot easier to manage only having 1 site? If I were to deploy Windows 7 Pro later in the year (my image is around 7gb) to around 300 desktops would my current setup be able to cope with this or would I need some more DPs/MPs? How many deployments of Windows 7 Pro could 1 server handle simultaneously? I am going to be rolling out Office 2010 later in the year also which is about 1gb in size, would I need more DPs/MPs for this bearing in mind that this package would just be advertised and the install initiated by the user? Sorry its quite general questions but not finding a lot on the web about this. thanks for all of your help and time.
August 16th, 2010 7:46am

I would add at least another DP. You could technically put that DP at the end of the WAN link, but that's not best practise. I'd place a secondary site there (where you could also add a PXE SP).
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August 16th, 2010 10:33am

thanks for your reply Torsten. I am thinking about a secondary site at site 2 but I guess I wanted to understand a bit more if I actually do need it as the current configuration is coping with the workload. In saying this though I have not pushed any app of significant size to site 2 yet. cheers
August 17th, 2010 6:24am

There's nothing wrong with your current setup (if it works for you), but it's not best practise to put a DP at the end of a slow WAN link. The packages will be sent uncompressed, unthrottled and unscheduled to the DP using SMB. Secondary sites make use of senders/addresses (scheduling, throttling, compression) on the other hand.
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August 17th, 2010 9:36am

I see Torsten, that then in itself is the selling point. A secondary site at site 2 it is. BTW - I can't thank people enough for this forum and the advice I have received lately, without ever going on a SCCM course or having a SCCM expert to contact all I have been using is this site (plus a few others on the web) and all my questions/issues have been answered so far. A very big thank you to you all. cheers
August 18th, 2010 8:25am

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