An organization might have several branches across different locations in a country or across countries. When it comes to manageability, you should plan your cloud solution based on location and management. Some locations might need more administration or monitoring and you might concentrate your IT team there and some other locations might just act as operation and you could manage them remotely. Using Microsoft Private Cloud solution manageability become easier and you could manage devices across different locations remotely.

When you manage private cloud in different locations, first you should define resource for those locations. You could ask yourself following questions:

1) How many PCs and Laptop are in that location?

2) What are critical factors? (If something fails, how it affect production and operation)

3) What is the capability for remote support? Could we support it remotely?

4) If problem could not resolve remotely, what will be cost of solving problem? (In case that you should send someone there, e.g. travel expense, replace devices, etc.)

5) How often problem will occur and what is the cost of repairing them?

If the location is less effect production, you could run it as totally remote operation.  If you need to operate any server there, you could consider Windows Server Read-Only Domain controller and keep monitor it by Operation Manager and enable remote access with you administrators. It is good idea to have some emergency servers and consider fail over planning, that if the server fails in one location you could redirect users in that location in another server until problem resolved. Try to setup multiple backup locations and make sure all servers are backed up. If you have department in different countries, it is good idea to define domain for each country and subdivide them base on departments. It is easier to troubleshoot later on. Let say in case that you see laptop in domain in a country are facing a problem, you would know that there is an issue with servers that located in that country.

It is good idea to use System Center Operation Manager to monitor servers and devices in different locations; you could group them based on country, department, production and other factors that help you with monitoring. In term of configuration, System Center Configuration Manager could be a great help, it is good idea to test you configuration first before deploy them. First deploy your policies and configurations in locations that IT team are present to make sure that emergency cases and cases such as failure could analyze and handle and then deploy your policies in other locations remotely.