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More Flatter Hierarchy with SCCM Some Smart Decisions Configuration Manager

More Flatter Hierarchy with SCCM Some Smart Decisions Configuration Manager

Written By Anoop C Nair
Last Updated August 9, 2024
Posted In Adaptiva
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Let’s discuss More Flatter Hierarchy with SCCM Some Smart Decisions Configuration Manager. Scaling the SCCM hierarchy is crucial in releasing the new SCCM Current Branch with SCCM and Windows 10 servicing options.

Planning and designing the infrastructure is essential to SCCM CB. We must carefully and smartly identify when to use additional distribution points or management points.

Most of us who have already used SCCM CAS or read about SCCM CAS-related advice from the community will avoid the installation of the CAS server. Instead, we will try to flatten the SCCM CB Infra with a stand-alone primary server.

With the increase in the number of clients supported, flattening the SCCM Infra is very much possible; an SCCM Current Branch stand-alone primary site supports the following number of devices: 175,000 total clients and devices.

More Flatter Hierarchy with SCCM Some Smart Decisions Configuration Manager - Fig.1
More Flatter Hierarchy with SCCM Some Smart Decisions Configuration Manager – Fig.1

More Flatter Hierarchy with SCCM ConfigMgr CB Some Smart Decisions

SCCM Current Branch Scale-out options should be very dynamic at an enterprise level; for that, 3rd party SCCM add-on like the Adaptive One site will become very handy.

More Flatter Hierarchy with SCCM Some Smart Decisions Configuration Manager - Fig.2
More Flatter Hierarchy with SCCM Some Smart Decisions Configuration Manager – Fig.2

More Flatter Hierarchy

A standalone primary server can support 15 management points and 250 DPs. So, with a flatter infrastructure, we may have to deploy loads of DPs and MPs in the environment.

I’m not a big fan of secondary sites for low-bandwidth sites, mainly because of SQL DB replication. The following post, More Flatter Hierarchy with SCCM ConfigMgr CB Some Smart Decisions Configuration Manager, provides more details.

However, we may have trouble placing MPs/DPs in each remote office for large environments, mainly because SCCM CB can support only 15 MPs, 250 DPs, and 250 secondary sites. We can’t even consider operation teams overhead if we have hundreds of DPs and secondary sites in your SCCM CB infra.

TechNet documentation on SCCM’s current branch-supported sizing and scale numbers is here. To scale out your SCCM Current branch architecture and design, consider innovative scaling options like Adaptiva Onesite.

Adaptiva can dynamically handle remote offices without spanning hundreds of DPs across your WAN. More details about Adaptiva are here.

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Anoop C Nair is Microsoft MVP! He is a Device Management Admin with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. He writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc.

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11+ years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

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