In my implementation, there have been a couple of scenarios where it would have been great if we could control what sites are available to clients from certain relays. In other words, I’d like to choose for the relay service on each relay, what sites he can synch.
So, here is one scenario – I want to place a relay into my DMZ, but I DON’T want to host data there that sits in any custom sites. If I could choose only external sites for that relay…
As far as I know the sites that are “relayed” are related to what sites that relay’s sub-clients are subscribed to.
If you have a DMZ relay and a specific set of sub-clients that always talk to that specific relay you could manage those sub-clients subscriptions.
One idea you might try out is the following:
I haven’t tried it personally but the logic seems sound…
Create your custom site, but be sure to uncheck the “Create a policy action that will subscribe all computers to this Custom Site by default”.
Then create a new task-policy that will unsubscribe the computer if the BES Relay property changes to the dmz relay. Then another task-policy that will subscribe the computer if it is “not” that dmz relay.