Hello I haven't had my SCCM hat on for over 6 months now and need some help please. In my current post we have several identical environments, same domain name, fqdn's and IP addresses. They are segregated by VLAN's and are currently not centrally managed. I am proposing to use SCCM for DCM to keep the environments up to date. Can SCCM have clients with the same FQDN and IP address and identify them by their VLAN? Many thanks Lee

No it can't do that. Even if it could you would still have authentication and routing issues. http://www.enhansoft.com/

Thanks Garth. I feared that would be the case. I was hoping there may be a Cisco add-in that might be able to use VLAN's to identify and route traffic but I realised it was a tall order. Could it be possible to have a Central SCCM server responsible for centrally updating DCM profiles and push those down to a secondary SCCM servers in each environment? Thank you Lee

Based solely on what info you have provided, I dont think that you can use secondary servers due to the authentication issue, however you might be able to use Child Primary servers. This assumes that you can work out the routing issues.http://www.enhansoft.com/

Garth is right here. Ultimately, there is no way to work out the routing issues (or authentication issues), by definition IP addresses (and subnets) must be unique kind of like telephone numbers (unless they are on physically separate networks). This has nothing to do with ConfigMgr either, just basic networking theory.Jason | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys | http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/jsandys/default.aspx | Twitter @JasonSandys