suppose I have a site hierarchy like this: the central site abc has a primary child xyz that has another primary child efg with a few secondary children. Now I want to change the site hierarchy so that primary efg (together with its children) becomes a child of central site abc directly. Can I and how can I achieve this? thanks in advance,

Hello - Have you seen the below article, may be this will help... How to Change a Site's Parent Site http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb694189.aspxAnoop C Nair - This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees, and confers no rights. |Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

You can use this article to see how you assign a new primary site http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc181474.aspx. You can always attach and detach primary sites to each other, secondary sites must be reinstalled.Kent Agerlund | My blogs: http://blog.coretech.dk/author/kea/ and http://scug.dk/ | Twitter @Agerlund | Linkedin: /kentagerlund

Thanks An00p, I have read this article but have concerns with the "caution" part: Caution If the site being added to the hierarchy uses the same site code that was previously used in the hierarchy, and if software distribution objects were modified since detachment, software distribution objects might be overwritten or corrupted. For instance, parent and child sites might have different definitions for the same package IDs. Carefully inspect any duplicates. After inspection, consider deleting packages that are no longer valid. What this imply to? What shall we do?

I never tested it. May be, you can check the same in the test lab. But I don't think it will create any issues as your primary server is in same hierarchy and package IDs in your case should be same.Anoop C Nair - This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees, and confers no rights. |Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

It's not only packageIDs, there's more (like collections, advertisements and serial numbers in the site control file).Torsten Meringer | http://www.mssccmfaq.de

suppose I have a site hierarchy like this: the central site abc has a primary child xyz that has another primary child efg with a few secondary children. Now I want to change the site hierarchy so that primary efg (together with its children) becomes a child of central site abc directly. Can I and how can I achieve this? I know this is very old thread. I've done some testing on this scenario and posted it HERE. Hope this will help.Anoop C Nair - @anoopmannur :: MY Site: www.AnoopCNair.com :: FaceBook: ConfigMgr(SCCM) Page :: Linkedin: Linkedin<