Brian,
To the best of my knowledge, a Distribution Point on a Windows client operating system, such as Windows 7 or 8.1 should work just fine. As you noted, the major difference between a client and server OS is the ability to perform PXE booting through the Windows Deployment Services (WDS) service. Have you considered using a Windows Azure Cloud Distribution Point role for your Internet clients, by the way? This might serve as a good fallback to your on-premise Distribution Point. Not sure about the FSP role though . I am not sure if that can be deployed on a client OS. Interesting idea though. Cheers, Trevor Sullivan From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian McDonald Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2014 9:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] DMZ CM servers I'm going to be building two servers in the DMZ to support IBCM. One server will host FSP and the CRL website. I'm going to have another server that will have Software Update Point, Management Point and Distribution Point roles. Would these servers be best served with Client or Server OS? I don't have a need for PXE booting to these servers, so not sure why I wouldn't just throw Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 on these two machines. Unless there are other requirements I am overlooking. Thanks everyone, Brian
