Hi Guys, I am working on an SCCM deployment. We have 6 locations. The head office will host Central site and all the other 5 locations will have secondary sites. Down the road in 8-12 months, all the servers at head office will be relocated to a data center. The intention is to also move the Central site at that time to the data-center. So my question is that in the head office, what is my best approach? Do I create a central site and then add another server at the head office and configure a primary site? Is it even possible to move this central site to another location later on? I haven't been able to find best practice recommendations for this scenario. Thanks, Palwinder Singh

There is no issue with physical movement of the central server if the connectivity, FQDN and hostname remains same.Anoop C Nair - Twitter @anoopmannur MY BLOG: http://anoopmannur.wordpress.com SCCM Professionals This posting is provided AS-IS with no warranties/guarantees and confers no rights.

Thanks Anoop. So what is my best approach for Head office? Do I add another server here and create a primary site on it? That way we can move the central site server later and nothing will change as far as head office systems are concerned. Or do I just add a secondary site at the head office when we want to move the server to data center? Am I on the right track? Thanks again, Palwinder Singh

Hi, How many computers are we talking about in your environment? The setup also depends of the number of computers and so on. Regards, Jörgen-- My System Center blog ccmexec.com -- Twitter @ccmexec

Hi Jörgen We have about 1500 computers at head office and 300-500 each in branch offices. Palwinder Palwinder Singh

If you have same connectivity and bandwidth from Datacenter to haead office and branch office then I won't see any issue with this. I have done this 3 or 4 times.Anoop C Nair - Twitter @anoopmannur MY BLOG: http://anoopmannur.wordpress.com SCCM Professionals This posting is provided AS-IS with no warranties/guarantees and confers no rights.

Thanks a lot Anoop! Regards,Palwinder Singh