Hello to all, I'm involved in a project to migrate SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012 R2. As known, migration is done in side by side mode, i.e., install new SCCM 2012 R2 hierarchy and proceed to migrate/recreate source components in SCCM 2012 R2, deploy new clients and remove source hierarchy.
The question to this scenario is targeted to SCCM 2007 Branch Distribution Points (BDPs). Current SCCM 2007 SP1 has aprox. 150 BDPs and I'm wondering what would the be the best option to follow with DPs in SCCM 2012 R2 because requirements are higher (8Gb of RAM, 2 Cores, etc) and customer does not have enough machines with this configuration to be DP in SCCM 2012 R2. Possible options:
1- Install one DP in the new Primary Site that will also be Distributed cache mode, considering that all remote clients support branch cache mode and can distribute content among local peers. Currently, several distributions are made without DPs on remote sites
2- Install SCCM 2012 R2 DPs in several sites to minimize traffic impact.
Inputs are welcomed.
Regards, EEOC