Current Branch

So shortly after starting my current roll, my first task was automation of patching. I decided to accomplish this with System Center Configuration Manager. My work gave me a single server and a SQL cluster we used for several other applications. I did the obvious thing and tried to utilize the SQL cluster for the SCCM SQL requirement. For my first attempt at installing on the SQL cluster, I let SCCM create it’s own databases (DB’s).

The infrastructure I inherited (You’ll see most of my posts start like this for awhile unfortunately.) consisted of 3 data centers, each with it’s own WSUS running the databases on the local servers with GPO’s pointing either to each local WSUS or one in the other data centers. Here’s a rough diagram to better explain it: Obviously, this wasn’t ideal and my predecessor had even let the servers slip into disrepair since he was using a third party patching tool.