Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager High availability and performance tuning

Chapter 2. Configuring Roles for High Availability

Now it's down to the real deal—the bits and bytes. In this chapter, we will go through different roles and services and how they can be deployed as highly available for the clients. We will also walk through some examples of how a simple site design might look like for different scenarios. So, the topics we will go through in this chapter are:

• How to set up high-availability roles and features within Configuration Manager
• Different ways to perform content distribution
• Client communication and behavior
• Example site designs

First, let's take a look at roles within Configuration Manager that cannot be deployed as highly available and what options we have.

It is important to note that when installing a ...