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Expanding a standalone primary site

Expanding a standalone primary site

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Expanding a standalone primary site

- [Instructor] Very often an organization will decide one standalone primary site to be sufficient for the client management needs of the organization. However, if they may later decide that it would enhance efficiency to have more than one primary site, they can then add a central administration site and then later an additional primary site. Microsoft refers to this as Expanding a Standalone Primary Site. In order to do so, you must meet the following prerequisites. You need to install the new central administration site using the same media version that matches the version of the standalone primary site. Now, this is kind of new because in using Configuration Manager Current Branch, we're going to have different releases and therefore different media versions with it. So they need to be the same. Next, the standalone primary site cannot be configured to migrate data from another site. So usually when it's a standalone, we're not going to have this issue 'cause the standalone…

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