So is it safe to conclude that its primary site or nothing? I was really hoping to have multiple PMPs take care of policy requests for clients and the multiple secondary sites to say 3000 each to absorb delta inventory inventory and send it compressed during site to site tranfsers Given that policy polling and delta inventory is the main issue how will having a primary site make a difference since all the data still needs to flow to parent site for centralized reporting?Sarosh

Can I place multiple secondary sites and distribute the client load via subnet boundaries (given that subnets are broken down) this will also give me flexibility in secondary site to primary site transfers on different schedules? Why would you do that? It makes no sense. Add a primary site and be done with it. John Marcum | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jmarcum/|

I am with Kent and John: that's too many clients for a single secondary site. Clustering etc won't help here. Why don't you just install another primary site there? Secondaries are free from a ConfigMgr (!) licensing point of view, but multiple of them require multiple OS licenses, so it might be cheaper going the primary site's route.

Hi, That's way to many clients (if you ask me), I would never support more than 2.000 in a secondary site. But it really depends on the number of features being used.Kent Agerlund | My blogs: http://blog.coretech.dk/author/kea/ and http://scug.dk/ | Twitter @Agerlund | Linkedin: /kentagerlund

I am designing an SCCM hierarchy with very specific goal of simplified hierarchy and Centralized management. Based on WAN, MAN, LAN I am confident that a single primary site and complementary regional secondary sites with PMP, DPs, PDPs, BDPs would serve the purpose. However, there is one big site with 6000 machines behind a 2MBPs (33% utilized) link to primary that I am not sure about and looking for suggestions I cannot find the supported maximum number or clients for secondary site/PMP. 4000 is the number that comes to mind l but I am not sure. Also a side question, I recall reading somewhere that client send their initial inventory to primary site directly, regardless if there is local secondary or not. Is that true? Sarosh

OK just thinking out loud Can I place multiple secondary sites and distribute the client load via subnet boundaries (given that subnets are broken down) this will also give me flexibility in secondary site to primary site transfers on different schedules? If I am totally off on the first approach does anyone know if a seondary site/PMP can be clustered to support a larger # of clients?Sarosh

Maybe one of the large hierarchy guys will reply but I do not think a secondary site can handle 6000 machines. I know for a fact I would not try it. My understanding of this doc is that it is tecnically supported. a MP can handle up to 25,000 according to this. However I seem to recall seeing once a PMP maxes out at 3000 but I can not find that now. The docs do not defierentiate between and PMP and an MP http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680869.aspx John Marcum | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jmarcum/|