Restricting Specific Types of Content From Being Distributed to Distribution Points

[tcilmo]

Hello Everyone!

I am standing up two new multicasting enabled distribution points to be specifically used for ONLY OSD. I would like to limit the types of content that can be distributed to these distribution points. My goal is to only allow Drivers, Driver Packages, OS Images, OS Installers, Boot Images, and Task Sequences but not Packages or Applications. Does anyone know if this type of granularity is possible? I have also posted this question on TechNet if anyone wants to reference it there.

--Tony

[Peter van der Woude]

Do exactly as mentioned by Torsten, it's your best shot. Create a custom security role and scope it to the specific DP.

[tcilmo]

Hi Peter

 

I'm attempting to do what Torsten suggested. I updated my post on TechNet with additional details, if you would like to take a look.

 

I do have a custom role, with a security scope assigned to both the Distribution Point and the Administrative User. When I attempt to distribute content I still see the DP as an option, no matter what type of content that is being distributed. Did I misunderstand what Torsten was suggesting?

 

--Tony

[GarthMJ]

I have seen you post here and on TechNet, honestly my question is "Why does it matter? so what if someone send that content to your multicast DP, how will it hurt anything?"

 

IMO it seems like you are trying to protect yourself from something that will have little to no impact on anything, so why care about this at all? Why not once a month manually clean up the extra content?