We are planning SCCM 2007 Architecture for ~7000 clients, and have some general questions as we learn more about the architecture. We have two large locations with ~1000 clients, and several medium locations with ~250 clients, several with ~100 and many small sites with <100 clients. All locations are connected to a central point, (basically a star topography), with the large locations connected with very fast WAN connections. We are thinking we will have a central site at the central point (center of the star) and then we may also create primary sites there for the two large sites, we will evaluate that at much more detail. Where we have more design questions is for the Medium, and medium-small locations. We will likley need some roles locally at those sites, since their WAN connections are not as fast, and we would probably want a Management Point and Distribution Point at them as well. In order to have a MP and DP at a location, are we correct in thinking that you have to create at least a secondary site there? So that those clients would be assocaited with the MP and DP at that location? Design wise, would it make sense to have a MP and a DP at our locations with ~250 clients?, and then possibly even at locations with ~100 clients? It seems that any location that is so small that it does not already have any servers, it would make sense to just create a Branch Distribution Point to reduce the load of packages being send over the WAN to mulitple clients. But for the medium sites that already have server infrastructure, would it be worth considering creating a secondary site there? And if we did decide to do that, and say we created ~5 secondary sites with MP and DP, are they all able to be connected to the same primary site, say the central site at the center of the star?

I would create secondary sites at all remote locations. For me it's easier to have the same configuration in each remote location, that makes administration and troubleshooting so much easier than having 3 different configurations. A secondary site can also deal with 1.000 clients, it might be worth trying that instead of installing two primary sites. If it dosn't work out for you, you can always install a new primary site and remove the secondary.Kent Agerlund | My blogs: http://blog.coretech.dk/author/kea/ and http://scug.dk/ | Twitter @Agerlund | Linkedin: /kentagerlund