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can't add package to Distibution points - 4/16/2008 6:55:49 PM

EdwardKK

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Hi all,

I've got a package that i'd like to distribute to new DPs. I select the package, right click, choose "manage my dps" and tell it I want to add it to new DPs. I then select the DPs, etc click on OK, and nothing changes. The package is created on my parent server and is only distributing to a couple of my child servers. The sender seems to be copying it to the children, but they never get updated in the list. I also can't go to a child and distribute the package to new DPs from there.

Anyone got any ideas? I had sent this to only a few dps as the package was still in Pilot, but now I want to distribute to everyone.

Thanks!

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RE: can't add package to Distibution points - 4/16/2008 9:54:52 PM

skissinger

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have you tried an Update All DPs yet?

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RE: can't add package to Distibution points - 4/17/2008 8:24:42 AM

mp115

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Has this package been in place for a length of time or is it brand new? If it's older, try creating a new package and distribute it to those same problematic sites to see if it makes it. If it does, it may be a case of that weird "disconnect" where the main console shows a site server as being a DP for the package, but if you look on the site server in the SMSPKG and SMSPKGD$ folders, it's not there. In these cases, I've had to manually copy the .pkg file over to the SMSPKG folder and use the PreloadPkgOnSite.exe tool, which gets things back in sync.

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RE: can't add package to Distibution points - 4/17/2008 11:30:27 AM

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It's been there for a few weeks. I had it on some DPs, and then changed a couple of my dps (new server went into place and the old one went away), and now want to deploy it back to all the dps. Yes, I told it to update all.

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RE: can't add package to Distibution points - 4/17/2008 4:49:49 PM

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How much data are we talking about? If it were me, I'd take either of 2 roads; remove the package from all DPs, wait a bit. Then rename the source folder, then in Package Source in the console change the source to match; then add Dps back. That would be if it's less then, say... 300mb (in my environment, a couple of hours to shoot that out). If it's more than 300mb, and depending upon the # of DPs I'd have to do this on, I'd remove the package from all Dps; check the .pck file on smspkg on my Primary or Secondary Site Dps; and run the preloadpkgonsite on those Secondary DPs; then re-add the DPs to the package. If it's a Share DP, you will not have the preloadpkgonsite choice, so go with option #1 in that case.

(Yes; I know there are better ways to troubleshoot this--this is working around the problem not solving it.

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RE: can't add package to Distibution points - 4/18/2008 7:09:04 AM

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lol skissinger... that's usually what I end up doing. It's easier to fix it than it is to figure out why it happened.

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RE: can't add package to Distibution points - 5/12/2008 6:00:13 PM

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Well that's what I had to do. Wipe the packages out and resend them everywhere. I blame it on sunspots and server gnomes. never did figure out what the problems were.

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