This value changes when Configuration Manager reassigns the server. If you try to do another action on the target server before you refresh the console view, an "object not found" error occurs. Ensure the process is complete and refresh the console view before starting any other actions on the server. After reassigning a distribution point, refresh the server's certificate. The new site server needs to re-encrypt this certificate using its public key and store it in the site database. For more information, see the Create a self-signed certificate or import a public key infrastructure PKI client certificate for the distribution point setting on the General tab of the distribution point properties.
For PKI certificates, you don't need to create a new certificate. Import the same. PFX and enter the password.
If you don't refresh the certificate, the distribution point still serves content, but the following functions fail:. Do this action from the central administration site. This practice helps with replication to the primary sites. Don't distribute content to the target server and then attempt to reassign it.
Distribute content tasks that are in progress may fail during the reassignment process, but it retries per normal. If the server is also a Configuration Manager client, make sure to also reassign the client to the new primary site.
This step is especially critical for pull-distribution points, which use client components to download content. This process removes the distribution point from the old site's default boundary group. You need to manually add it to the new site's default boundary group, if necessary.
All other boundary group assignments remain the same. You can set a distribution point in maintenance mode. Enable maintenance mode when you're installing software updates, or making hardware changes to the server. The distribution point properties are read-only. For example, you can't change the certificate or add boundary groups. Be careful about enabling maintenance mode on more than one distribution point.
This action may cause a performance impact to your other distribution points. Depending upon your boundary group configurations, clients may have increased download times or be unable to download content.
Maintenance mode shouldn't be a long-term state for any distribution point. For any actions with a long duration, consider first removing the distribution point role.
To put a distribution point in maintenance mode, your user account requires the Modify permission on the Site class. For example, the Infrastructure Administrator and Full Administrator built-in roles have this permission.
Select the target distribution point, and choose Enable maintenance mode from the ribbon. To view the current state of the distribution points, add the "Maintenance mode" column to the Distribution Points node in the console. Individual distribution points support different kinds of configurations. However, not all distribution point types support all configurations.
For example, cloud management gateways don't support PXE- or multicast-enabled deployments. For more information about specific limitations, see the following articles:. Supported configurations for cloud management gateway. Use a pull-distribution point. The following sections describe the distribution point configurations when you're installing a new one or editing an existing one :. Use the information in the following sections when you're editing the properties of the distribution point.
After you make the changes that you want, select OK to save your settings and close the distribution point properties. The following settings are on the Distribution point page of the Create Site System Server wizard, and the General tab of the distribution point properties window:. Configuration Manager requires IIS on all distribution points. If you don't choose this setting, and IIS isn't installed on the server, first install IIS before Configuration Manager can successfully install the distribution point.
It's available only when you're installing a new distribution point. Enable and configure BranchCache for this distribution point : Choose this setting to let Configuration Manager configure Windows BranchCache on the distribution point server. For more information, see BranchCache. Enable this distribution point for prestaged content : This setting enables you to add content to the server before you distribute software.
Because the content files are already in the content library, they don't transfer over the network when you distribute the software. For more information, see Prestaged content. Enable this distribution point to be used as Microsoft Connected Cache server : Use this option to install a Microsoft Connected Cache server on your distribution point. By caching this content on-premises, your clients can benefit from the Delivery Optimization feature, but you can help to protect WAN links.
For more information, including description of the other settings, see Microsoft Connected Cache in Configuration Manager. The following settings are on the Communication page of the Create Site System Server wizard and the distribution point properties window:.
For more information, see Security guidance for content management. Allow clients to connect anonymously : This setting specifies whether the distribution point allows anonymous connections from Configuration Manager clients to the content library. Create a self-signed certificate or import a PKI client certificate : Configuration Manager uses this certificate for the following purposes:. It authenticates the distribution point to a management point before the distribution point sends status messages.
These computers then use it to connect to a management point during the OS deployment process. When you configure all your management points in the site for HTTP, select the option to Create self-signed certificate. There are no specific requirements for the certificate subject or subject alternative name SAN. If necessary, use the same certificate for multiple distribution points.
For more information about the certificate requirements, see PKI certificate requirements. For an example deployment of this certificate, see Deploying the client certificate for distribution points.
Specify the drive settings for the distribution point. Configure up to two disk drives for the content library and two disk drives for the package share.
Configuration Manager can use other drives when the first two reach the configured drive space reserve. The Drive Settings page configures the priority for the disk drives and the amount of free disk space that remains on each disk drive. Drive space reserve MB : This value determines the amount of free space on a drive before Configuration Manager chooses a different drive and continues the copy process to that drive.
Content files can span multiple drives. Content locations : Specify the locations for the content library and package share on this distribution point. By default, all content locations are set to Automatic. Configuration Manager copies content to the primary content location until the amount of free space reaches the value specified for Drive space reserve MB. When you select Automatic , Configuration Manager sets the primary content locations to the disk drive with the most disk space at installation.
It sets the secondary locations to the disk drive with the second-most free disk space. When the primary and secondary locations reach the drive space reserve, Configuration Manager selects another available drive with the most free disk space to continue the copy process.
For more information, see The content library. Without these rules, clients will receive error 0xF4 in DataTransferService. When you Enable this distribution point to pull content from other distribution points , it becomes a pull-distribution point.
You change the behavior of how the distribution point gets the content that you distribute to it. For more information, see Use a pull-distribution point. For each pull-distribution point that you configure, specify one or more source distribution points from which it gets the content:.
Choose Add , and then select one or more of the available distribution points to be sources. Use the arrow buttons to adjust the priority.
When the pull-distribution point attempts to transfer content, the priority is the order in which it contacts the source distribution points. It first contacts distribution points with the lowest value. Specify whether to enable PXE on the distribution point. Select the option to Enable PXE support for clients , and then configure the following settings:. Configuration Manager automatically configures the default ports on Windows firewall.
If you use a different firewall, manually configure the ports. By default, DHCP listens on the same port. Click Enable this site system as a protected site system , and then click Select Boundaries. Choose your boundarie, click OK. I'm using Active Directory Sites and Services in this guide. Under Available roles, select Distribution point , and then click Next. Click Enable as a branch distribution point , and then click Next.
You should now see your new Distribution Point under Site Systems as below. Right click and choose Properties. Distributing Software to the Configuration Manager Client. Expand Site Database , Computer Management , Collections , and then click All Systems or your collection that you want to distribute the application to.
Right click and choose Properties , Distribute , Software. Select Create a new package from a definition , and then click Next. The Distribute Software to Collection Wizard Package Definition dialog box appears allowing you to select the package definition file to use. Notice the default package definitions built into Configuration Manager.
Click Always obtain files from a source directory , and then click Next. Under Programs , click Per-system unattended , and then click Next. Click Next to accept the default option of advertising to subcollections as well even though we do not have any subcollections. After Advertise the program after , verify that the current date and time is displayed. Verify No, this advertisement never expires is selected, and then click Next.
Verify that No, do not assign the program is selected, and then click Next. Confige Distribution Point settings for this package. Expand Computer Management , Software Distribution , Advertisements , right click on your advertisement and choose Properties. Click to clear Allow clients to fallback to unprotected distribution points when the content is not available on the protected distribution point , and then click OK.
I will complete it as soon as i get my LAB up and running again. Working on it. Some bigger than the others. Secondary sites or Branch Distribution Points? The link to the main location also varies for all others. You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Select the multicast tab and enable multicasting. See full list on docs. Possible cause: Distribution Manager does not have sufficient rights to read from the package source directory or to write to the destination directory on the distribution point.
Distribution point. In the ribbon, choose Properties. DP's are helpful when you have an offsite office that has slow bandwidth to the hierarchy. We have mentioned already that to support BranchCache we need to use a Windows R2 system — but what about clients? This also does not make sense as the installation sources for the update are downloaded to SCCM. A pull-distribution point acts like a client when it accesses content from a source distribution point.
It can be based on a restricted bandwidth. Software Hi SysAdmins. SCCM Roles. Distribution Point-A site system role that stores packages for clients to install. Verify permissions on the share.
I always recommend to install the management point and distribution point on separate servers to move some of the load away from the site server. Branch distribution points are Configuration Manager clients, running Windows XP and later, that serve as a distribution point in a remote location. The status icon is important here. Software Update Point. While you can host a Standard Distribution Point DP on a bit host you will not get all of the current technology available to support that service.
So in this segment I want to go over the process of setting up Distribution Points. Feb 07 AM. Open the Application Management node. All servers are installed with Windows Server R2. The only exception is the distribution point site system role, which you can install on some bit operating systems.
Whenever a client needs to download a new operating system or just the bits of an application or a package, it needs to contact a distribution point on the site. Select the distribution point to configure. The Service Connection Tool now allows for uploading of usage data from multiple sites at the same time.
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