Hi We are helping a customer with a Windows 7 deployment, during the project we also will implement MBAM and activate Bitlocker on all Laptop computers. Questions 1. The customer wants to use only a single server solution for all MBAM features, what is the disadvantages with this design? Shouldnt be performance? I know MS recommend the three-computer configuration or more servers. The customer have about 750 laptop. 2 Is there any guidelines for SQL configuration and how to partition disk and where to place database and log files? 3. approximately how much disk will be consumed in the database for 750 client? Regards Thomas Z

Security could be one disadvantage as you will be mixing the roles and having all services (especially the database keeping the recovery keys) on the same machine. Performance if you only have 750 machines and even if they grow will not be a problem at all for a regular server. As far as SQL recommendations goes I would say that (this is not my area though) that you keep the database and log files separated from the systemdrive. In a best world I'd say that the log files and data should be on separate volumes but again I do not see any performance problem here so keeping data and log files on one drive should be enough. You can always split them later on...Blogging about Windows for IT pros at www.theexperienceblog.com

1. The customer wants to use only a single server solution for all MBAM features, what is the disadvantages with this design? Shouldnt be performance? I know MS recommend the three-computer configuration or more servers. The customer have about 750 laptop. One server should be good to handle 750 machins easily. 2 Is there any guidelines for SQL configuration and how to partition disk and where to place database and log files? SQL DB and log files should be placed on different drives on the same server. Take regular backup of SQL DB. MBAM does not consume large SQL DB for reporting and recoveyr keys. 3. approximately how much disk will be consumed in the database for 750 client? As far as SQL goes the following is conservative guidance on DB size. MBAM Compliance Status DB 80 MB MBAM Recovery and Hardware DB 60 MB Report Server DB 30 MB Report Server TempDB 12 MB --------- 180 MB per 10K clients | 1.75GB per 100K clients Manoj Sehgal

hi manoj. i see a new error while installing MBAM on single server, but SQL database as seperate instance in existing SQL Server. when i select to install all the features in single server, i get the below error message., i have created seperate sql instance, but mbam tool is not asking the path of instance or databse., i really stuck in live environment., pls help