SCCM 2012 R2 - Multiple Management Points

Hi,
We are deploying SCCM 2012 R2 and it will cover 15 geographical locations.  There will be 1 site and 1 site server with DB.  The 15 locations will each have a Distribution Point .  The number of hosts is around 10,000 total.
Can multiple (15) Management Points be installed along with the Distribution Points to communicate back to 1 site server?  Is it necessary or even possible?
Thanks.

It's possible yes (with many caveats), but not generally necessary. If you are concerned about client to MP traffic, which is generally quite small (which I why I say it's generally not necessary), then the use of secondary sites is recommended instead of
stand-alone DPs. The secondary site will then provide a local DP, MP, and SUP for clients at that location to use.
Directly placing an MP that is part of the primary site is problematic because clients do not choose MPs within a single primary site based upon their location. Thus, placing an MP remotely does not address geographically dispersed locations/clients in any
way and may make the problem worse. As of 2012 R2 CU3, you can hard-code MPs into clients, but this creates a bit of an overhead problem and does not address SUPs.
Thus, as mentioned, if you are truly concerned with this traffic, secondary sites are the way to go. Without knowing how many clients are at each location and the bandwidth available to those locations, I wouldn't make a recommendation as to which to use
though. In general, I always lean towards stand-alone DPs for remote locations unless the bandwidth is severely constrained or there are a large number of clients at that location.
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys

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    We planning to go one level higher to automat and have more dynamic Software Update Management for Windows Servers. We have SCCM 2012 R2, SCOM 2012 R2 and SCO 2012 R2.
    Our plan is to pur server in an AD-Group to get Update Schedule, from the servers will be importet to an Collection for Automatic Update and reboot. If I understand Everything right SCOM can't read AD-Group and put then in an Schedule maintenance mode. SCOM
    can read reg value as exempel.
    IS there any smar way to make the SCOM Maintenance Mode Schedule dynamic?
    I found this
    http://www.scom2k7.com/scom-2012-maintenance-mode-scheduler/?
    /SaiTech

    You could use Orchestrator to put the servers from a specific collection, or AD group, in maintenance mode in SCOM. For an example see:
    http://www.systemcentercentral.com/orchestrator-how-to-scom-maintenance-mode-for-windows-computers-in-an-sccm-collection/
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  • SCCM 2012 license for managing Servers

    Hi,
    We want to manage windows servers with SCCM 2012. Can someone explain what are the licensing options available and how much it cost per server. 
    Regards,
    Madhan

    This came up on this forum recently. Here you go
    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/db10f78f-3c44-40fd-92a8-1264ee06dccb/configmgr-2012-licensing?forum=configmanagergeneral
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  • SCCM 2012 Application Catalog Website Point role Status is critical

    Hi team,
     In a client's SCCM 2012 R2 environment there is a Critical Icon and Status against one of two Application Catalog Website point roles. Looking at the Component status, there are no errors and all the components show as green.
     Trying to find any warnings or errors in the messages for the Site System role doesnt show any errors, and I tried to reset counts but this has not changed the status.
     I am not sure where to go from here. The application catalog itself works and is up. All the services are running. I am unsure as to where this error status comes from or what it pertains to.
     Any advice would be appreciated.

    Hi,
    Please check portlctl.log and awebsctl.log to see if there is any error.
    You could also check the thread below.
    Symptom: Reporting Services Point Status (under Monitoring - System Status - Site Status) appears as Critical, No error messages in logs or status messages
    Cause: 'Status' can be set to "2" for 'SMS SRS Reporting Point' in dbo.summarizer_sitesystem table in sql
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    update dbo.summarizer_sitesystem set status = '0' where SiteSystem = '["Display=\\abc.local\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=ABC"]\\abc.local\' and role = 'SMS SRS Reporting Point'
    > It should set the status back to 0.
    > Check in console and errors should go away.
    > In case if value reverts back then check below namespace in wmi of site server:
    root\sms\site_pri\sms_sitesystemsummarizer
    > check the value for reporting services point, ideally it should be 0, let's say it's set to 2 there as well then remove role of reporting services point.
    > if entry for reporting services point goes away from both the places then it's good, you can re-install the reporting services point and it should work fine.
    > Let's say if value/values doesn't get removed from sql/wmi , remove them manually via queries and then go with uninstall and re-install.
    > then it should work and errors in console and common.log should go away.
    https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/5e0b7af6-f00c-4610-a709-f3e0e26505be/sccm-2012-monitoring-site-status-reporting-services-point-status-critical?forum=configmanagergeneral
    Best Regards,
    Joyce
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  • SCCM 2012 R2 & Pull Distribution Point Casuing 0 Byte amd64 folders

    Experiencing an extremely frustrating problem.
    ENVIRONMENT:
    1 Primary Site Server / DP (Main Office)
    40 DP's (Remote School Locations)
    - Hosted on a file server VM
    - Contains 3 partitions: C: (System), E: (Data), I: (PKG share)
    OS: Server 2008 R2 (Primary Site Server and File Servers / DP's)
    SCCM Version: SCCM 2012 R2 
    We recently upgrade to SCCM 2012 R2. I have confirmed that this has not caused the problem I am about to describe. The only other change that has occurred recently is that we configured all of our DP's at each of our 40 sites to be pull distribution points.
    While this seems to be working fine we are now seeing a whole bunch of 0 Byte alpha numeric folders with a 0 Byte amd64 subfolder. These folders seem to attach to the E: drive on all of our File server distribution points....for the life of me I cannot figure
    out why and this occurred as soon as we switched to pull distribution points. While this does not seem to be having an erroneous effect on our environment, it is annoying and somewhat disconcerting as I have not been able to ascertain what is causing it. Any
    SCCM admins out their ever encountered this?
    Thanks

    Yes, I have examined the logs using cmtrace and done a search for the amd64 string to see if any of the logs indicate its creation as part of the pull dp process. I have not found anything as of yet.
    Thanks

  • SCCM 2012: Reinstall remote distribution point?

    Hi,
    We have a remote distribution point to which we can't deploy packages anymore. Several attempts to repair it failed.
    I'd like to remove the distribution point and reinstall it via SCCM 2012 console.
    However, I'd like to know the impact since it contains GB of packages already.
    Note: the DP has been removed for clients (temorarely) so no impatc there.
    My questions:
    -what is best practises: can I just remove and add it in 1 go (or need to wait before re-adding, reboot needed in between)?
    -will all data be pulled in again (I activated pull and would reactivate it after reinstall)?
    -what's your experience in this procedure? does it work in general or is it preferrable I continue troubleshooting the current situation?
    Please advise.
    J.
    Jan Hoedt

    I can see there was installed a new dotnet version C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319
    recently.
    Can/should I register this to IIS?
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22952115/asp-net-iis-7-5-http-500-21-error
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  • SCCM 2012 R2 Power Management - Machine Wake Up Time is Randomly Offset

    We have recently migrated to SCCM 2012 R2 from SCCM 2007 R3. Since moving the clients to the SCCM 2012 R2 server I have noticed that the Power Management Wakeup Timer is not working as it used to.
    Power Management is configured as follows:
    Peak Hours: 5:30AM - 6:00PM
    Wakeup Time: 5:30AM
    Previously, all power management configured clients would wakeup at around 5:30AM, some a minute or so before, some a minute or so after. Now they are on SCCM 2012 R2, I'm finding that they are waking up anywhere from 5:30AM to 7:30AM. At first
    I thought this was due to the Deadline Randomization settings, so I set "Disable deadline randomization" to Yes on the Computer Agent. However, the machines are still waking up at random times. To ensure the change was propagated properly,
    I changed the Wakeup Time by 1 min to 5:29AM and updated policy on a few test machines, but no joy.
    Does anyone know why this is occurring?
    Thanks
    Kate

    Hi,
    This setting determines whether the client uses an activation delay of up to two hours to install required software updates and required applications when the deadline is reached. By default, the activation delay is disabled.
    If required software updates and required applications must install without delay when the configured deadline is reached, select
    Yes for this setting.
    For more infomation, please review the link below:
    Disable deadline randomization
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4acd0c29-e453-4863-8194-e479263291c8#BKMK_ComputerAgentDeviceSettings
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  • SCCM 2012: configure software update point

    Hi,
    I installed WSUS, installed the software update point on Windows 2012 (for SCCM 2012) with following commands:
    Install-WindowsFeature -Name UpdateServices -IncludeManagementTools
    cd 'C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools\'
    .\wsusutil.exe postinstall CONTENT_DIR=E:\WSUS
    Add-CMSoftwareUpdatePoint -SiteCode "PRD" -SiteSystemServerName "CM01.contoso.com" -ClientConnectionType Intranet -WsusiisPort 8530 -WsusiissslPort 8531
    Now I'm stuck. How do I configure the specific update (f.e. Windows 2012, forefront etc), download them to a certain folder?
    Please advise.
    J.
    Jan Hoedt

    It really isn't practical (or possible) to try to do an entire ConfigMgr implementation using PowerShell. I don't believe that you can choose your products using PoSH.
    You will find a full list of cmdlets here
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj821831(v=sc.20).aspx
    The following cmdlets are available to configure your software update infrastructure but I'm pretty sure none of them will help you with this.
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  • SCCM 2012 R2 - Software Update Point

    I have two domains, one where the site server (SCCM) will be installed home office,  and then another untrusted domain Management.  This server will have site roles, SUP, and some others.
    I want to create a site system server with DP, MP in the untrusted domain.    In order to push out updates to clients in the untrusted domain,  what do I need, in the untrusted domain, to make this work.

    Hi,
    For the SUP in the untrusted domain the SCCM Site Server you need the proper patch level of the installed WSUS, the correct ports open on Firewall and an account from the Domain where the SCCM Site is installed which has rights on the WSUS on the primary
    site. This account has to be configured during the installation of the SUP on the Site System Server.
    May this post also give you some hints:
    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c3fbf3ab-ca70-48da-90b1-e7322783140c/sup-in-untrusted-forest-using-sccm-2012-sp1?forum=configmanagerdeployment
    Cheers
    Christoph
    PS: Could somebody please move this thread to the correct Configuration Manager Forum :)

  • SCCM 2012 Design and Management

    I'll preface this by saying I dont have much experience beyond setting up a stand alone primary site for SCCM 2012. 
    Here's the situation:
    1. Central Office in LA, CA with smaller offices in Texas and in SF (totaling about 4k clients)
    a. Fast 10G link to TX
    b. Slow link to SF
    2. Korea office with 500 clients (slow link)
    3. Europe office with 1500 clients (slow link)
    4. Local IT staff managing systems and software deployment in each location. 
    5. Central office would like oversight and management of other regions. 
    If anyone could provide suggestions on hierarchy design that would be appreciated. 
    Originally I was going to setup a CAS and a Primary Site in the US (DPs for SF and TX), and 2 other Primary Sites for KR and EU regions (Remote DPs and what not for the smaller branches within). IT staff for each region would manage their own primary. But this
    apparently isn't ideal. 
    My question is how a stand-alone primary design would work in this instance? And if the primary resides in the US, would administrative users have to use the console to access the primary over the slow WAN link?
    I think my confusion in design comes from whether the regional admins need direct access to the Primary site or not. 
    Thanks, and please excuse my ignorance. 

    I'm not sure what the internet cloud is there for.  Your LA Primary should be in that spot; remember those servers all need to be able to communicate with the primary, usually on the same domain.  If what you meant by that 'internet" cloud
    you really meant "Our Internal Company WAN Links", then ok.  By that I mean... I presume in SF, KR, EU... there are domain controllers servicing those locations?  then it's sorta similar to CM12.
    If you really *do* mean internet is how those locations are linked, no domain trusts, then what you may be looking at is pki certificates, and internet based client management.  And/Or possibly considering leveraging Intune for those clients.
    Regarding console usage; either publish the console via Citrix, or publish the console as a TS App.  i.e., publish the console from citrix via a citrix server in the same datacenter as the LA Primary--and everyone uses that console (if they need to
    use the console). 
    fyi/off topic... my opinion.  "helpdesk" type personnel have no need to be in the console, nor does anyone who simply needs to run reports.
    Standardize. Simplify. Automate.
    Correct, internal WAN links, all computers are domain joined. We will eventually move to internet management too but that seems to be something we'll tackle later down the road. 
    I will need to check with the other admins to see what kind of VDI we have in place. 
    Console access is for other admins to create/modify collections for their region, deploy software, etc. The console itself wont be made available to helpdesk/service desk.
    response to edit:
    - Correct, TX will only have a DP on a "site server" (not a secondary site). 
    - link to SF would be 1GB, and change to 10GB once they move into a perm location. In my diagram they would also just receive a DP
    edit 2: ok my vocab is off, when i put "site server" in the diagram i really mean "site system server"

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