Adding Secondary Site SCCM2012

Question

I have a Primary Site Setup with general roles and  Distribution Point roles, Reporting services, Software Update point.
Now we have added an another site and need to set up one more site server at site-2.
I need to distribute the software updates of site-2 clients using the new sccm-2 server located in Site-2 by having an Distribution in site-2.
what all the additional roles needs to be setup in site-2.
do I need to install WSUS in site-2 sccm server to push software updates?
And prior installing the secondary Site, do I need to install an SQL server Instance at Sccm2 server?
or the default mssql express edition is enough at site-2 which will be taken care during addition of secondary site wizard?
Pls clarify
Raj

Answer 1

Assuming you actually want/need a secondary site:
- No there is no advantage of using a full SQL instance over SQL Express. Overhead of a full SQL instance would be a disadvantage as its simply not necessary.
- Correct, clients at the remote site would connect to the WSUS instance at the main location to download/access update metadata. The download of this metadata is (depending upon what you have selected in the catalog) generally around 10MB but after that
it's purely deltas which generally are 500KB per month (the catalog is only updated twice a month by Microsoft).
- You cannot install reporting services on a secondary site -- is there a specific reason you are wanting to?
Going back to my first statement above, without knowing the details we can't make a definite recommendation, but using a remote distribution point is the preferred method of handling remote locations in ConfigMgr 2012. The primary generator of traffic in
ConfigMgr is content transfer (accounting for at least 90% of traffic typically) thus the only traffic you truly need to worry about (once again typically, there are many factors that can potentially influence this) is content from DPs.
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