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2. Module 1: Introduction to Configuration Manager Infrastructure Andrew McMurray Technical Evangelist – Windows Infrastructure Microsoft Corporation
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3. Agenda Infrastructure Deployment in Configuration Manager 2012 R2
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4. System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
Empower Users
Empower people to be more productive from almost anywhere on almost any device.
Unify Infrastructure
Reduce costs by unifying IT management infrastructure.
Simplify Administration
Improve IT effectiveness and efficiency.

5. Infrastructure Promises
Modernizing Architecture
Minimizing infrastructure for remote offices
Improvements to Distribution Points
Consolidating infrastructure for primary sites
Role-Based Administration and Logical Data Segmentation
Language Neutral Support at Primaries
Collection-based Client Agent Settings
Scalability and Data Latency Improvements
SQL Replication

6. Infrastructure Decisions – When Do I Need the Following:
Central Administration Site
Primary Sites
Secondary Sites
Distribution Points

7. Central Administration Site
Unify
Central Administration Site
Centralized Reporting and Administration, simplifies management
More than 100K clients in hierarchy. So essentially you need a central to add multiple primaries and to scale out beyond 100K clients
Any other time you might need more than one primary site in hierarchy
Central Administration Site
Primary Site
Primary Site
Secondary Site
Secondary Site
Distribution Point

8. Central Administration Site
Primary Sites
Unify
Primary Sites
Manage Clients - Clients never report directly to a CAS
Scale (100K clients per primary)
Reduce impact of primary site failure
Political Reasons
Content Regulation
Local point of administrative connectivity
You don’t need a Primary Site for:
Decentralized administration
Logical data segmentation
Client settings
Language
Content routing for deep hierarchies
Central Administration Site
Primary Site
Primary Site
Secondary Site
Secondary Site
Distribution Point

9. Central Administration Site
Secondary Sites
Unify
Secondary Sites
No local administrator for secondary
Manage upward flow of WAN traffic
Tiered content routing for deep network topologies
Central Administration Site
Primary Site
Primary Site
Secondary Site
Secondary Site
Distribution Point

10. Central Administration Site
Distribution Points
Unify
Distribution Points
BITS not enough control for WAN traffic
Throttling & Scheduling
BracheCache is not available
PXE & Multicast for Operating System Deployment
App-V Streaming
Central Administration Site
Primary Site
Primary Site
Secondary Site
Secondary Site
Distribution Point

11. Distribution Point for Windows Azure
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Distribution Point for Windows Azure
Windows Azure
PR1
Distribution Point
Policy
Content
Firewall MP MP
Microsoft Update DP
Rich feature set
Provision from the admin console
Most capabilities as on-premises. Except:
Operating System Deployment and task sequences
Custom updates
App-V streaming
Full BranchCache support
Software updates from Microsoft Update
Integrated monitoring
In-console content monitoring
Ability to monitor storage and traffic out usage
Content is fully encrypted
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12. Content Management in R2
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Content Management in R2
In-console monitoring improved to make is easier to track the status of content distribution
Optimized content download for superseded apps so only changes across versions are brought down
The sources for a pull DP can be randomized to achieve load balancing and flexibility.
Pull DP in-console monitoring on par with standard DP.
Enable pull distribution point to send state messages via MP.
Pull DP improvements
Reduced the amount of interaction between remote DPs and the Distribution Manager.
Optimized content distribution by adding distribution point priority and keeping send requests in SQL.
New report: Distribution Point Usage – shows how much a particular DP gets used.
Infrastructure
improvements
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