Hi. I Installed a new Secondary Site using the "new secondary site wizard" on the Primary server. It looks fine on the Secondary Site server, the end line of the ConfigMgrSetup.log is: =====================Completed SMS V4 SP2 Server Setup ===================== But when I visit the Management console, that tells me that the Secondary Site is still in Pending state. Which logs should I check? My environment is: Primary Site server: Win Server 2003 R2 Enterprise; SCCM SP2; Secondary Site: Win Server 2008 R2 SP2 Thank You in advance.

Sender.log and despool.log on both sites.Torsten Meringer | http://www.mssccmfaq.de

Hi, Have you granted the Secondary Site System the necessary permissions to the Primary Site? Otherwise it cannot report back status to the Primary site. "After the secondary site has been successfully installed, you must manually create the address to the secondary site in the parent site Configuration Manager console and ensure that the secondary site server computer account has been added to the local SMS_SiteToSiteConnection_<site code> group on the primary site server computer to enable site-to-site communications." http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb632811.aspx It could also be Secure Key Exchange that is causing it: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693771.aspx I would check the Sender.log and despool.log at both sites for errors.. Regards, Jrgen-- My System Center blog ccmexec.com -- Twitter @ccmexec

Hello, You can perform this test to check the health of your secondary site. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb633034.aspx Also,in terms of logs,you can check the sender.log,Sitecomp.log,sitestat.log,despool.log on the primary site to check the health of your secondary site. Let me know if that helps. Thanks Arvind

is the primary site server added in the secondary site local admin group ?

Hi, Have you granted the Secondary Site System the necessary permissions to the Primary Site? Otherwise it cannot report back status to the Primary site. "After the secondary site has been successfully installed, you must manually create the address to the secondary site in the parent site Configuration Manager console and ensure that the secondary site server computer account has been added to the local SMS_SiteToSiteConnection_<site code> group on the primary site server computer to enable site-to-site communications." http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb632811.aspx It could also be Secure Key Exchange that is causing it: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693771.aspx I would check the Sender.log and despool.log at both sites for errors.. Regards, Jrgen -- My System Center blog ccmexec.com -- Twitter @ccmexec I would go with this, it seems the site control file (SCF) did not arrive at the Parent. Check your secondary site servers SENDER.LOG to see if it can access and transmit data to the Parent (this was already mentioned, I just reiterate).

Hi, Thank you all. It was a problem with the Key Exchange. I did that manualy and it works fine now. Now I can see my Secondary site as Active. I did the following steps: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrsetup/thread/bd55e448-67c9-415f-9de5-f990431f24f5/ "At the secondary site, you would run: preinst /keyforparent And then copy the file to the Inboxes\Hman.box on the parent site. Then, on the parent site, you would run: preinst /keyforchild And then copy the file to the Inboxes\Hman.box folder on the secondary site. Wait a couple of minutes, then the files in Inboxes\Despoolr.box\Receive should be processed"