Site System Roles

• What are Site System Roles?

They are roles that provide support for the Site. Listed are several of the roles that we will be working with in this course.

In our lab environment several of these roles are installed by default during the SCCM installation, or they are associated with the SQL installation. These roles are highlighted in yellow. I will point these out as we move through the list of roles.

To add a role is a very simple process. You just right click on the site, which in this case is

SA1, and select add Site System Roles

• **Site System **– A server that hosts one or more site system roles.

• **Site Server **– Is the machine on which you install SCCM. This role is automatically installed during SCCM installation.

• SMS Provider – This role is the interface between the Configuration Manager Console and the Site Database. This role could be installed on the primary, secondary or any other windows server.

If I right-click on the SMS Provider role, then click properties; this provides us additional

information about the role. This role uses WMI (Windows Management

Instrumentation) – The client uses WMI to extract information about the hardware, O/S and installed software of the client machine.

• **HTTPS **provides a security layer when clients using the administration service and are connecting to SCCM over the internet.

• Service Connection Point – This role is Installed during the SCCM installation. Connects

• Configuration Manager to Microsoft Cloud services. And is required to make updates for Configuration Manager available in the console. Can only be installed on the Primary Site.

• If we right-click on the server connection point then click properties.

• Here you have two choices. Online or offline. The default is on-line; this enables you to get the latest updates for your configuration manager installation, right there in the console. If you chose offline, t…