4.1. Configuration Manager 2007 Site Types and Site Relationships
Since Microsoft SMS 1.0, we've had the notion of a site type being either a primary site server or a secondary site server. If you boil everything down to the simplest definition of the differences between a primary and a secondary site server, you could say that a primary site server has SQL and a secondary does not. As we progress through the chapter, you'll see some subtle differences between site types, but this is the most rudimentary difference.
At least one Configuration Manager 2007 primary site server must be installed in a Configuration Manager network, because there must be a relational database (Microsoft SQL 2005 Service Pack 2) to store all the site information and ...
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