About Connecting Primary Sites

When you connect primary sites to form a hierarchy, one site is the parent site, and the other site is the child site. You connect sites by changing a site's parent; that is, for each site that you want to make into a child of site A, you set its parent site to be site A. If there will be five children, you do this five times, once on each child's site server.

You can connect primary sites to form any kind of hierarchy you prefer, but no site can have more than one parent, and sites cannot be connected circularly (meaning a site cannot be its own subsite).

A primary site that has no parent is a central site. Every SMS system must have a central site.

Note  Do not confuse the terms child site and secondary site:

• Child sites can be primary sites or secondary sites. Every site (except the central site) is a child site to another site.
• Secondary sites have no site database and are managed through a primary site. They are always child sites, never parent sites.

Related Topics

Change a Site's Parent

About Site Hierarchies

Configuring SMS Site Settings Overview