If you mean that within the console, you want to have a logical grouping of "Los Angeles area" vs. a logical grouping of "New York City area"; and LA support people cannot see the NYC grouping of computers, that would be accomplished with setting up Class and Instance rights appropriately under ConfigMgr07. Depending upon your timeline for this project, you may want to download and evaluate RC1 of configMgr 2012; in CM12 there were significant changes to defining security and scoping security; making it much easier under cm12 to scope out the "LA" vs. "NYC"Standardize. Simplify. Automate.

Thank you Sherry.... Responsible city means every major city has remote officies it is responsible for and service. So my office has 6 remote offices we travel to weekly to do updates and trouble shoot issues. I just imagined that my office would be a primary and our 6 remotes would be secondary under our offices SCCM configuration, and so on and so forth of how the other main offices would be setup for their remote sites. But if you are saying we can get the same accomplished by only having my office as the primary with no other licenses needed, I would love to know how you would set it up?RobGil2005

I could really use some advice; I have a basic knowledge of SCCM, but as far as the best way to set it up in my company. So here is the rundown of my environment. 1. Of course I have all the Admin rights. 2. We have 1500 desktops and 1000 laptops in our company, which is comprised of 3 cities and 12 remote offices (all within the same State). 3. Our Operating System is sort of mixed right now, More than half are XP, the rest are Windows 7. Soon all will be windows 7. 4. Each city has a DC and each city is on (2) DS3 connections, while the remote offices are on a T1 connection. We are also in the Cloud... 5. Our SCCM server is NOT a DC, but in the network. C drive is the Server O/S, D drive (30 GB) is the SCCM, and E drive (10Gb) is the SQL DB. So my question is: Can 1 City effectively run the entire network? If so, how should I configure it as in which is secondary sites? And what are the other sites called that I should configure for the remote offices? Or Purchase 2 more licenses for the other 2 cities, make them primary as well and make the remote offices under the responsible city secondary sites? Can anyone help me with this one? RobGil2005

Stick with the single primary site. Regarding secondary sites vs. DPs vs. Branch DPs... Secondary Site licenses are free. I'm not sure what you mean by "responsible city secondary sites". there's no management done from a secondary site. A secondary site is basically so you can have a Sender, and possibly a proxy MP. It's about having content a little closer to your endpoints. That said... since "in general" the arguments about secondary vs. dp vs. branch dp is 99.9% about bandwidth utilitization regarding getting content (like patches and packages) to your computers, you might also want to check out either 1e's Nomad or Adaptiva's Onesite, as an alternate content provider, instead of secondaries or additional Dps at all.Standardize. Simplify. Automate.