Update Distribution Points Question

[lord_hydrax]

Hello,

 

Hopefully an easy one, I have deployed an Office 2010 package to several remote sites in preparation for an upcoming deployment.

 

Today I added an additional file to the package source directory which is about 400kb and I want it to be replicated to all sites.

 

Now for my question, if I do an Update Distribution Points task (Or refresh DPs task) will that replicate the entire package to all DPs or will it only copy the file that was added?

 

Reason being, it took ages to copy like 3GB compared to what it would take to copy 400KB.

 

If not, would it cause an issue if I manually copied the file to all DPs?

 

Thanks in advance!

Andrew.

[Peter van der Woude]

By default it will resend the whole package. If you Enable Binary Differential Replication on the package then it will only send the changes (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693953.aspx).

[lord_hydrax]

Ha nice!

 

I'll give it a try, does it work well?

[Peter van der Woude]

In general it works good, but you do read sometimes little issues caused by BDR.