How to establish primary-site-to-primary-site communications in ConfigMgr (SCCM)
I am working on to setup a new ConfigMgr (SCCM) hierarchy. The first hurdle I have to overcome is once I have the central site (RP and SUP) and the main primary site setup. The standard sender is automatically created for me and all I need is to create the addresses for each site as detailed in How to Create Configuration Manager Site Addresses
So end of the story? Not quite, at least for me.
To create a Configuration Manager site address
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In the Configuration Manager console, navigate to System Center Configuration Manager / Site Database / Site Management / <site code> - <site name> / Site Settings / Addresses.
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Right-click Addresses and then click New.
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Select the type of address that you want to create to start the appropriate New Address Wizard.
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To finish installing the address, complete the General, Schedule, and Rate Limits pages of the New Address Wizard.
As this is brand new setup – there is nothing to select when you click the down arrow next to Destination site code. Actually we do can type with a list box even though this is not really new but somehow that down arrow hard coded my brain and make me believe I can only “select” not type. That almost cost me a PSS call!
Once I type in the destination code and type in the Site Server name (if the site you need to connect is 901 on server USNYSCCM01, the destination code should be 901 and the Site server name should be USNYSCCM01!). All I need to do is to wait until the the address from 901 – (Unknown) to 901 – Headquarter.
There is one more thing that bothers me but I don’t know if it is by design. On the central site, I can see the above change but on the primary site console. it stays as 900 – (Unknown). But if you look at it on the console in central site – it indeed change to 900 – Central Site!
The bottom line is I know it is working!