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is it recommended or rather is it possible to have a whole system centre configuration manager infrastructure, in azure to manage on premises clients and servers.

The reason I am asking is there seems to be not much information or design example of actually implementing this.

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SCCM Current Branch is fully supported in Azure IaaS. There is no limitation with this approach. You can have primary servers and other site system servers in Azure.

Also you can have PXE or some other roles in On Prem Data Center.

SCCM is going to remove the dependency on WDS service for a PXE role. This option is already available in SCCM 1802 preview version.

The following documentation have loads of answers

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/understand/configuration-manager-on-azure

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First, there is no SCCM 2016, a new SCCM current branch will be released with the Windows Server 2016 or System Center 2016 Suite I guess.

As you said, there are no much public document for this topic, I would like to share with you something.

Actually usually we can consider to put the CAS to the Azure, but not the all SCCM core infrastructure. But technically you can do that

You can already install the SCCM Current Branch 1060 on the Azure, including Primary Site Server, Database, WSUS, Reporting, App Cat, AI etc. To manage the on premises devices, you need to setup a DP and MP on your premises site.

You need to setup the Site to site VPN between your Azure network and on premises site..

I understand that you only want to manage On premises device, but just want to share with you, some feature needs broadcast won't work for the VMs in Azure, such as PXE, WDS....

Azure does not support broadcast (cf. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-networks-faq/).

“WDS cannot be run on a virtual machine in Windows Azure.” https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831764(v=ws.11).aspx

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