Re: Out of band distribution

I haven't found a way of doing this neither.
You could go the dfs route though.

Create a distributed file system with replicas based on windows 2003 R2 preferably.
You could then create sms packages that are essentially empty.
Put programs in those packages that reference the dfs path eg (\\dfsroot\software\winzip\setup.exe /q)

Provisioning the "distribution points" in this environment is as simple as copying files.

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"Everyone is an expert at something"
Kim Oppalfens - Sms Expert for lack of any other expertise
Windows Server System MVP - SMS

"Mustafa" <Mustafa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9F77E2A4-4A29-4CD0-BC62-C472F28A1C8D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello everyone:

I am working on a large SMS deployment.

We have a number of locations that will not have sites - they will only have
distribution points. Effective network bandwidth on those locations is 1 Mb
or lower. (I know this is not recommended architecture, but it is real
world...)

We need an approach to "build" these distribution points We would like a
way to take all the packages we have and send the packages to the dist point
server "out of band" - basically similar to the courier sender functionality
but within the site. We have about 25 GB of packages. I have not found a
way to do this in the present SMS functionality - would be interested if
anyone knows any 3rd party tools or any other ways to fake out SMS into
thhinking the packages got there thru SMS.

Thanks in advance,

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Mustafa Hamid


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