Hi,

I am working on a SCCM 2012 R2 hierarchy design (6000 clients devices) spread across 6 global locations. My orignal plan was to have a single standalone primary and 5 distribution points. Now i am being told that we need to have a CAS server in this hierarchy for the reason that if company decides on a acquisition in coming years, we would not be able to support/migrate or integrate that acquisition in a primary standalone model and it would require a CAS to do a migration to our existing hierarchy.

I need to understand if that is something which needs to be planned at this stage?

Will having a SCCM 2012 R2 standlone primary design not support migrations?

Thanks.

Hi,

No you don't need a CAS, you can migrate to a Primary Site just in the same way as when you have a CAS. You can add a CAS afterwards if you ever will need one, go with one Primary Site that is what I would have done!

Regards,
Jrgen