Configuration Manager uses site system roles to support management operations at each site. Each site system role supports different management functions. The site system roles that provide basic management functionality are:
- Management Point (MP): A site system role that provides communication between configuration server and clients. Clients uses this server for downloading the policies.
- Distribution Point: A site system role used by the clients for downloading contents such as software packages and updates, application contents, OS image, and boot image.
- Asset Intelligence Synchronization Point: A site system role that connects to System Center Online to download and manage Asset Intelligence catalog information and upload uncategorized titles to consider them for future inclusion in the catalog.
- Reporting services Point:A site system role that provides integration with SQL server reporting services to create and manager reports for configuration manager
- Software update point :A site system role that runs Microsoft windows server update services and allows configuration manager to use the WSUS catalog to scan clients for software updates
- Application Catalog Website Point: A site system role that publishes the list of softwares on the website for users to browse/install.
- Application Catalog Web Service Point: A site system role that serves applications to the website which are to be listed in the catalog. This site system role requires IIS.
- Out of band service point: A site system role that allocates and configures Intel AMT-based computers for out of band management, when the computer is turned off, in hibernation, or not responding.
- Endpoint Protection Point: A site system role that allows to manage Window Firewall and antimalware security policies for client computers.
- Fallback Status Point: A site system role that receives messages from clients for monitoring client installation and identifies clients which are not able to communicate with their Management Point.
- State Migration Point: A site system role that stores user state data when a computer is migrated to a new operating system.
- Enrollment Point: A site system role that enables authentication when enrolling their mobile devices from an untrusted forest.
- Enrollment Proxy Point: A site system role that communicates with mobile devices with security enrollment proxy point in the network.
- System Health Validator Point: A site system role must be installed to validate configuration manager clients and passes the health state of the computers to the Windows Network Policy Server.
- Component
Server:
A server that runs Configuration Manager services. While installing
the site system roles, configuration Manager automatically installs
the component server.
- Site
Server:
A server which provides the core configuration manager functionality
for the site.
- Site
System:
A server that hosts one or more site system roles for Configuration
Manager site
- Site
Database Server :A
site system role that runs Microsoft SQL server and hosts the
configuration Manager Site Database.
| Roles | CAS | Primary | Secondary | http | https |
| Management Point | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Distribution Point | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Asset Intelligence Synchronization Point | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Reporting Service Point | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Software Update Point | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Application Catalog Website Point | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Application Catalog Webservice Point | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Out of Band service Point | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Endpoint protection point | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Fallback status point | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| State migration Point | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Enrollment Point | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Enrollment proxy point | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| System health validator Point | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |