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

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!



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

have you tried an Update All DPs yet?



mp115 -> RE: can't add package to Distibution points (4/17/2008 8:24:42 AM)

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.



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

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.




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

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. [8|])



mp115 -> RE: can't add package to Distibution points (4/18/2008 7:09:04 AM)

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.



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

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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