Distribution file manager

Configure most of the distribution point settings with either method. A few settings are available only when you're either installing or editing, but not both:. Before you can make content available to clients, choose a site system server as a distribution point. Assign each distribution point to at least one boundary group. Add the distribution point role to a new server, or add it to an existing server.

When you install a new distribution point, you use an installation wizard that walks you through the available settings. Before you start, consider the following prerequisites:. Or, when you install the site system role, Configuration Manager can install and configure IIS for you.

SMS and copy it to the root folder of the drive before you install the distribution point. Use this procedure to add a new distribution point. To change the configuration of an existing distribution point, see the Configure a distribution point section.

Start with the general procedure to Install site system roles. This action adds the following pages to the wizard:. For more information on the pages of the wizard specific to the distribution point role, see the Configure a distribution point section. For example, if you want to install the distribution point as a pull-distribution point , choose the option to Enable this distribution point to pull content from other distribution points. Then make the other configurations that pull-distribution points require.

After you finish the Create Site System Server wizard, the site adds the distribution point role to the site system server. You can use PowerShell to automate the installation of a distribution point.

For more information, see Log file reference. Distribution point groups provide a logical grouping of distribution points for content distribution. Use these groups to manage and monitor content from a central location for distribution points that span multiple sites. Keep the following point in mind:.

Add one or more distribution points from any site in the hierarchy to a distribution point group. When you distribute content to a distribution point group, Configuration Manager distributes the content to all distribution points that are members of the group.

If you add a distribution point to the group after an initial content distribution, Configuration Manager automatically distributes the content to the new distribution point member. Associate a collection with a distribution point group. When you distribute content to that collection, Configuration Manager determines which groups are associated with the collection.

It then distributes the content to all distribution points that are members of those groups. After you distribute content to a collection, if you then associate the collection with a new distribution point group, you must redistribute the content to the collection before the content is distributed to the new distribution point group.

The next sections list the procedures for the following actions to manage distribution point groups:. In the Configuration Manager console, go to the Administration workspace, and select the Distribution Point Groups node. In the Add Distribution Points window, select one or more distribution points to add as members of the group.

Then choose OK. In the Select Collections window, select the collections to associate with the distribution point group, and then choose OK. You can use PowerShell to automate this process. In the Configuration Manager console, go to the Administration workspace, and select the Distribution Points node. Select one or more distribution points to add to a new distribution point group.

This process automatically populates the Members tab of the Create New Distribution Point Group window with the selected servers.

Select an existing distribution point group to modify. In the ribbon, select Properties. To associate new collections with this group, switch to the Collections tab, and choose Add. Select the collections, and then choose OK. To add new distribution points to this group, switch to the Members tab, and choose Add. Select the distribution points, and then choose OK. Select one or more distribution points to add to an existing group.

In the Available distribution point groups , select the groups to which the selected distribution points are added as members. Many customers have large Configuration Manager infrastructures, and are reducing primary or secondary sites to simplify their environment.

They still need to keep distribution points at branch office locations to serve content to managed clients. These distribution points often contain multiple terabytes or more of content. This content is costly for time and network bandwidth to distribute to these remote servers. This feature lets you reassign a distribution point to another primary site without redistributing the content.

The distribution point's current site can be either a primary or secondary site. This action updates the site system assignment while persisting all of the content on the server. If you need to reassign multiple distribution points, first do this action on a single distribution point.

Then continue with other servers one at a time. The target server can only host the distribution point role. If the site system server hosts another Configuration Manager server role, such as the state migration point, you can't reassign the distribution point.

You can't reassign a cloud management gateway. Before reassigning a distribution point, add the computer account of the destination site server to the local Administrator group on the target distribution point server. Go to the Administration workspace, and select the Distribution Points node. Right-click the target distribution point, and select Reassign Distribution Point. Select the target site server and site code to which you want to reassign this distribution point.

Monitor the reassignment similarly as when you add a new role. The simplest method is to refresh the console view after several minutes. Add the site code column to the view. 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. These jobs are removed from the DistributionJobs table when pull DP sends a Success state message or when the status polling stops based on configured values.

This is a known issue because the signature files are not present on a Source DP that is colocated on a site server. This issue only occurs when the distribution action is not redist.

This issue may occur due to RPC port allocation failures caused by firewall. It can also occur when Windows Firewall service is disabled. Check to see if there is a firewall between the site server and the affected server and find out if RPC ports are open. You can also capture a Network Trace from the pull DP as well as the source DP server while reproducing the error for review.

In some instances normally after installation of a new pull DP when all content is sent to the pull DP , too many job failures on the pull DP can end up stalled processing of the jobs. Although most of these issues are fixed in the recent releases of the product Configuration Manager version , some environmental factors can result in pull DP not processing jobs. In this scenario, it can be beneficial to remove all the job-specific items from WMI on the pull DP and distribute the content again to the pull DP in a controlled manner and investigate failures.

This happens when the pull DP response is processed. Review steps in Distribute a package to pull DP to understand the flow and review the relevant logs to investigate why the state message is not getting processed. There are times when you would notice content missing from the content library.

To confirm that the content is missing from the content library, identify an affected package and track the package content from PkgLib to FileLib. Once you confirm that the required content for a Package is missing in the Content Library, see Resend compressed copy of a package to a site for information on how to re-populate the content. In these cases, you can identify the content ID from the log and track the content from PkgLib to FileLib to ensure that the files exist.

You can also use Content Library Explorer to check if the package content files are available in the content library, however Content Library Explorer can take some time to load and it may be easier to manually track the content from PkgLib to FileLib.

Alternatively, you can capture a Process Monitor trace to verify if the necessary files are missing from the content library on the site server. If the site that is missing content in the content library is the package source site, it is necessary to update the package to increment the Package Source version so that DistMgr takes a snapshot of the content from the package source directory again and re-populates the missing content.

If the site missing the content in the content library is different from the package source site, you can force the package source site to resend the compressed copy of the package to the affected site. After that, this tool will automatically mount and assign drive letters to the Linux partitions.

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