Hi

I am working on a scenario where there is 1CAS and 3 Primary Sites. Initially there was only one primary site PS1 deployed and all the machines are discovered .Boundary configured, and Client installed on all the machines from PS1 site. After that deployed 2 more sites PS2 & PS3. Configured Boundaries for PS2 & PS3 sites separately. 

Now before site reassignment to PS2,the client machines that are falling in boundary range of PS2 site points as default management point to PS1 server and local management point to PS2 server, and after site reassignment the assigned management point is PS2 server and local management point is PS1 server.

so the resident Management point is now PS1 server shown in the general tab of client installed. I found in a TechNet article that

If a client can find resident MP, it will use resident MP. If a client cannot find the resident MP, it will then use the assigned MP.

When the client needs to find DPs for a package, it will first check its resident MP. If resident MP gives it an empty list, it will fall back to its assigned MP for DP locations. If the resident MP gives it a DP list, the client will try the DPs one by one.

In this case the clients of PS2 site will always use the DP content of PS1 server, and same case is also applied with PS3 site that client of PS3 site will also use DP content of PS1 site..

In such case how does the content downloads from a DP functions as we have 8 DP in our environment but 90% of the machine have PS1 as the resident management point. In this way all these machines will download the content from PS1 site DP as its the resident management point on these machines, increasing the network load on that particular DP.

Any help will be much appreciated..

Thanks

Pallavi

Are you managing more than 100k clients? Why have you decided to install so many primaries?
Your question cannot be answered without knowing all details about boundaries and boundary groups for each site.

yes we are having more than 100K clients that's why we planned to install CAS. The PS were installed because of Different boundaries. All the boundaries are different & they are added to different boundary groups.

To my knowledge, clients always query the MP from the site they are assigned to. Clients do not find MPs in primary sites using boundaries.

To my knowledge, there is no roaming in 2012 (as it existed in 2007) and thus no resident MPs. Additionally, DPs and boundaries are part of global data so it doesn't matter which MP a client queries anyway,  a client always uses the closest DP regardless of the MP it communicates with or site that it is assigned to.

Sites in 2012 are not the same thing as sites in 2007.

Hi Jason

In our case, Client installed on SCCM Client machine shows resident Management point.

• Edited by Pallavi Bhargav Saturday, January 11, 2014 4:24 AM

Make sure the boundary of the client is correct. According to your description, seems there are overlapped boundary set. Check it again carefully.

Clientlocation.log should be checked.

I'm going to forward this to the product team for further comment, but to my knowledge, as mentioned, there is no roaming in 2012 and clients are always redirected to their primary MP (by the resident MP apparently) for all queries making the scenario moot.

Hi Juke

I already checked the boundary configuration on each sites and there is no overlapping boundary set  found.

Thanks

Hi,

If so, upload the clientlocation.log and locationservice.log to Skydrive and post the link here.

Hi

Here is the link for clientlocation.log and locationservice.log

https://skydrive.live.com/?lc=1033&mkt=en-US#cid=D3C5D788B86F2E25&id=D3C5D788B86F2E25!112