Microsoft Endpoint Manager Notes

Chapter 3.2 - Organization of Configuration Manager

Size Matters!
- Small:
  - Single Standalone Primary Site
- BIG:
  - CAS - Central Administration Site (Group of connected primary and secondary sites)

Simplified administrative overhead
Simplified client site assignment and discovery of available resources and services
Elimination of possible delays introduced by database replication between sites
Option to expand a standalone primary site into a larger hierarchy with a central administration site

Stand-Alone Primary Site
- Supports up to 15 MPs
- Supports up to 250 DPs (combined total of 5000 DPs)
- Supports up to 175,000 - not to exceed:
  - 150,000 Windows clients
  - 25,000 devices that run macOS
  - 50,000 devices managed by using on-prem MDM
Secondary Site
- Supports 1 MP
- Supports 250 DPs
- Supports up to 15,000 Windows clients
Management Point
- Supports 25,000 total clients and devices - not to exceed:
  - 25,000 Windows clients
  - One of the following (not both)
    - 10,000 devices that are managed by using on-prem MDM
    - 10,000 devices that run macOS

CAS is the top-level site in a hierarchy
CAS supports only primary sites as child sites
CAS cannot have clients assigned to it
CAS doesn't support site system roles that directly support clients
- Management Points and Distribution Points
Configure discovery operations throughout the hierarchy from the CAS
Manage security throughout the hierarchy
Configure replication to control communication between sites
Size Matters!

Supports more than one primary site
Supports up to 25 primary sites
Always locked into the central administration site
- Cannot detach a child primary site to make it a standalone primary site

CAS
- Up to 25 child primary sites
- Supports up to 700,000 Windows desktops, 25,000 devices that run macOS and 100,000 devices using Mobile Device Management
Primary Site
- Up to 250 secondary sites
- Supports up to 250 distribution points
- Can support up to 2000 pull distribution points
- With combining all secondary sites, can support up to 5000 distribution points
- Supports up to 15 management points
- In a CAS supports 150,000 clients and devices
Secondary Site
- Can support up to 250 distribution points
- Can support up to 2000 pull distribution points
- Should be 500 or more clients
- Supports a single management point
- Supports up to 15,000 Windows clients
Management Point
- Support 25,000 total clients and devices
Distribution Point
- Supports up to 4000 clients
- Supports a combined total of up to 10,000 packages and applications
Fallback Status Point
- Supports up to 100,000 clients