Re: Protected Distribution Points

From: Sathish Mohan[MSFT] (samohan_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:49:12 -0800

Dave,

If your clients are assigned to the child primary site then my take is you
dont need a protected DP as long as the clients are within boundaries
defined on the child site. But if your clients are assigned to the central
site (and if they are in a proper non-overlapping protected DP boundary
defined on the child primary site) then they'll use the correct protected DP
from the child site.

Plus here's some useful information while distributing packages through DFS:

Distribution Points can be members of a DFS cluster, but packages must be
deployed to each individual DP, not via the cluster name. Suppose I have 3
DPs: DP1, DP2, and DP3. They are members of a DFS cluster named \\Software.
With SMS 2003, an admin can deploy packages to a custom share to each DP -
but not \\Software (the DFS name can not be made a DP directly). Let's say
the custom share was "Office." I now have \\DP1\Office, \\DP2\Office, and
\\DP3\Office, all of which are in the \\Software\Office DFS cluster.
Now, to SMS 2003 Advanced Clients ONLY (not legacy clients), I can advertise
a program with a command line of \\Software\Office\Setup.exe, and install
the program from the DFS cluster.

Sathish
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"Dave Halperin" <davidhalperin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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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