Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Mastering System Center Configuration Manager

You're reading from   Mastering System Center Configuration Manager Master how to configure, back up, and secure access to System Center Configuration Manager with this practical guide

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782175452
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Vangel Krstevski Vangel Krstevski
Author Profile Icon Vangel Krstevski
Vangel Krstevski
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 2. Assets and Compliance FREE CHAPTER 3. The Software Library 4. Reporting in Configuration Manager 5. Administration and Monitoring 6. Cloud Integration 7. Security and Backup 8. Troubleshooting Index

Planning your hierarchy structure


The new content distribution functionality in Configuration Manager 2012 gives you the ability to span a single site across multiple geographical locations using WAN links more efficiently. A well-designed System Center Configuration Manager hierarchy is more likely to contain fewer, flatter, simpler, and easier ways to manage sites. The top site can be a single primary site or a CAS. A primary site cannot have another primary site as a child site. If you want to extend your Configuration Manager hierarchy with a primary site, you need to create a CAS. The reasons to create additional sites are given as follows:

  • Exceeding the number of clients that a single primary site can handle

  • An additional primary site distributes the load and reduces the impact of a primary site failure

  • You might create an additional site to support Internet-based clients

  • Locations that use different language versions of the Configuration Manager client and system software

  • You might choose...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image