Upgrading from secondary to primary
We currently have a Primary site in London with a secondary site in New York and another seconday site in Hong Kong. It all works quite well apart from the users in New York and Hong Kong having issues using the SCCM management console which takes very long time to connect or refresh and anything else. We started thinking about getting a primary site installed in New York to start with and if successfull, do the same for Hong Kong. Now I know it is not possible to upgrade secondary sites to primary, so we were thinking of building another server as primary and migrate everything across from the secondary. Would this work? Does London automatically become the Central site? I'll be happy to view other ideas you might have.
March 19th, 2010 1:13pm

Hi, You can always change the parent/child relationship between primary sites. The central site server is "just" the top site server in your hierachy. If you add the new primary sites as child sites to London; then London will become the central site. Kent Agerlund | http://scug.dk/members/Agerlund/default.aspx | The Danish community for System Center products So we can use our existing UK server as Central and Primary and should be able to create another primary in NY. Licensing should not be a problem is we choose to take this path. Still early days and just wanted to have something to think about incase we do decide to go ahead with this plan.
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March 19th, 2010 2:49pm

My opinion: instead of setting up additional primaries, if the issue is slow Console connections, instead of having those admins in Hong Kong or New York have locally installed consoles, stand up a server (preferably really "close" lan-wise to the primary) to serve as an application server. That app server offers the ConfigMgr console; and then multiple people can just run the console remotely as an application, but the connection from the Console instance to the Primary site is quick. That's exactly what we have in one of our lab environments: console users don't have a local console, and they do not have interactive login rights to the primary. So we stood up a Server08 box, application server, and offered the console from there. It works beautifully.Standardize. Simplify. Automate.
March 19th, 2010 7:46pm

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