Best place to install SCUP

I am looking into implementing SCUP in our Config Manager 2012 R2 environment, which has a CAS and 2 primary site servers. I am thinking of installing SCUP on a separate server we use for utility purposes, but wanted to check here to see if there is a best
practice or typical location to install it. We could certainly put it on the CAS or one of the 2 site servers if needed.
Thanks,
Bryan

SCUP is a totally stand-alone application so it really doesn't matter where you put it. In total best practice mode, you should never actually do any administration on a server itself and thus a separate admin workstation/server is the best place for it.
Ultimately, as mentioned, it's a simple application with no background services or true overhead so it doesn't really matter. Putting it on the CAS itself will make configuration a bit easier though.
The main problem with SCUP though is that it uses an instance of SQL Compact Edition which is meant to be a single user DB (think Access). Thus, by default, each user will have their own, distinct copy of the DB used by SCUP. If you have multiple
users performing work within SCUP, you will need to have them all login with the same account or configure SCUP to use a shared DB (this is unsupported but does work fine --
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rzander/archive/2011/05/30/scup-2011-with-shared-database.aspx ).
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys

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