DP Questions

[HSChronic]

ok so i set up a DP on a remote share on my d drive everything is working fine but I have a question about the shares themselves.

 

I set up the share on server\dp$ then the package copied to that DP fine but I was still getting errors about not having a server\smspkgd$ share. So I created that share and it copied the package to that share too.

 

So now I have 3 shares with a copy of the package.

The source

server\dp$

server\smspkgd$

 

How do these all work with each other? Is the smspkgd$ used in conjunction with IIS?

[YiannosG]

Please check this to find out what best suites you; A Server Distribution Point or a Server Share Distribution Point.

 

server\smspkgd$ are the shares created by SCCM when you have added a server and defined it as a Server Distribution Point. Thats the one that it use to distribute the packages. You do not need to create a manual share ie dp$.

 

Now, if you want to create a Server Share DP you will have to create it manually.

 

Your source location is not use on distribution of the package to the user. It is use to create the distribution point packages to be sent to the users.

[HSChronic]

Please check this to find out what best suites you; A Server Distribution Point or a Server Share Distribution Point.

 

server\smspkgd$ are the shares created by SCCM when you have added a server and defined it as a Server Distribution Point. Thats the one that it use to distribute the packages. You do not need to create a manual share ie dp$.

 

Now, if you want to create a Server Share DP you will have to create it manually.

 

Your source location is not use on distribution of the package to the user. It is use to create the distribution point packages to be sent to the users.

 

Ok it created it because I removed the DP role from my main server and installed it on the remote server. Since I don't have a main DP it can't distribute content to other DP shares unless there is an active DP to distribute from. Thus the reason it created the SMSPKGD$.