GarthMJ, thank you for getting back to me.
3. So many other applications are utilizing the 100Mb pipe between the two sites. I'm sure we're going to need a Secondary site or a DS... or What's the difference between a secondary site, distribution site, child site, management point, software update point?
4. If we configure the SU, OSD, Inventory, reporting features (keeping in mind we have 1500 servers/clients) do you still think the CM primary database should be hosted on the same server? Is this the only database to consider? For our needs are there any other CM related databases, is it only one database for all of CM?
Just to be sure I have this right, with the SU, OSD, Inventory, and reporting features what are my dependencies from an infrastructure stand point? DC (with ADDS, DNS, DHCP), WSUS, Firewall rules, obviously Networking,.. am I missing any thing else? what about GPOs? Load balancers?