Configuration Manager - Primary Sites

Primary sites can be used to manage clients in well-connected networks and these cannot be tiered.

Important considerations when deploying primary sites:

1. It will be a stand-alone site or a member of a hierarchy
2. It only supports a central administration site as a parent site and secondary sites as child sites
3. It uses database replication to communicate directly to their central administration site
4. It supports up to 250 secondary sites and 100,000 clients attached
5. It is responsible for processing all client data.

Considerations when installing a primary site:

1. When there is need to manage clients directly and provide a local point of connectivity for administration.
2. When there is need to increase the number of clients to manage and administer.
3. When there is need to reduce the possible result of failure of a single primary site.
4. When there is need to provide load-balancing support for clients across multiple servers.
5. When there is need to manage the transfer of deployment content across a low-bandwidth network.