Protected Distribution Points

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From: Dave Halperin (davidhalperin_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:36:44 -0500

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I wanted to give my scenario.

I have a Central Parent site with 8 Primary Child sites. AD, schema
extended, all advanced clients.

I want all my packages created in the parent site and use the childs
distribution points as the parents DPs. The reason I want this is so that
package code (xxx0001) is the same in every site. The reason being is that I
want to use DFS for package distribution and new machine builds. This
requires the same code # for each package.

Now if I set it up as described and enable protected distribution points on
all site, where only machines within the site have access to the local
distribution point, will this prevent a machine from going across the WAN to
pull a package? I read that when a request is made to a Managemaent point,
it randomly selects the DP for that site and distributes the package. But I
assume that if I enable the protected DPs, that would prevent the package
from being distibuted form a badly connect WAN site.

I hope this was clear.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Dave

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