How to Create Boundary Group in SCCM

Now, we’ll create a Site Assignment Boundary Group and add all those AD Site. That way, all my clients for my 4 locations will be assigned to my Montreal Primary Site.
For Content Location, we want clients to get their content locally at their respective location. We will create 4 Content Boundary groups, add only their AD Site Boundary and assign their local Distribution Point.

Name	Boundary	Site System
MTL - Content Location	MTL	DPMTL01
NY - Content Location	NY	DPNY01
CHI - Content Location	CHI	DPCHI01
LA - Content Location	LA	DPLA01

Here’s how to make this happen in SCCM :

• Open the SCCM Console
• Go to Administration / Hierarchy Configuration / Boundary Groups
• Right-click Boundary Groups and select Create Boundary Groups

Create Site Assignement Boundary Group

• We’ll start by creating a group for Site Assignment : SA – MTL
• Click the Add bouton on the bottom
• On the Add Boudaries screen, select all boundaries. This will direct all my clients to the Primary Site located in Montreal for Site Assignment

 

• On the References tab, check the Use this boundary group for site assignment box
• Select your assigned site. In my case : MTL ,-àClick Ok.

Create Content Location Boundary Group

• Right-click Boundary Groups and select Create Boundary Groups
• We’ll name our group Content Location – MTL
• Click on Add
• Select only the MTL boundary

 

• The MTL boundary will be listed

• On the References tab, uncheck the Use this boundary group for site assignment box
• Click on Add at the bottom
• Select the Site System that host the Distribution Point role for the Montreal site. For our example DPMTL01
• Click Ok

• Repeat the steps for the other sites (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles)
• Once completed our clients are assigned to their local respective Site Systems

This is a simple but typical scenario. You can have multiples boundaries and Site System in your Boundary Groups if needed.