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Service connection points and site roles

Service connection points and site roles

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Service connection points and site roles

- [Instructor] There's an SCCM role called the service connection point, and it's a site system role that serves several important functions in System Center Configuration Manager. Before you set up a service connection point you need to understand and plan for its range of uses. Planning for usage might affect how you set this up. The service connection point supports two different modes of operation, the online mode, which is the service connection points automatically check every 24 hours for updates, and then downloads new updates that are available for your current infrastructure. It then shows up in your SCCM console. The other option is the offline mode, and that's where the service connection point does not connect to the cloud service and you must manually use the service connection tool for a System Center Configuration Manager to import available updates. The tool enables you to connect to the Configuration…

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