Good Afternoon All - 

I set up SCCM 2012 a few weeks ago and have been adding things to it ever since.  My company has 4 major locations in different cities and I obviously have a Distribution Point located in each.  

When adding the DP role to the offsite servers, I was asked for Primary and Secondary locations for the packages to be saved.  The settings I configured have worked out as they should.

My question is how to change this on the primary SCCM server.  By design and default, SCCM installed the DP role alongside itself on the same server.  The server has partitions as follows...

C:\ - OS

D:\ - Program Files

E:\ - SCCM Data / DP Content Library

Y:\ - SWAP Drive (Not written to)

I had planned to (and still want to) use the E:\ partition as the primary and D:\ as secondary drives.  However, C:\ has about 30gb of DP packages on it and E:\ seems to be secondary.

Question

So... how can I make E:\ the primary, D:\ the secondary without an uninstall / reinstall of the DP on the primary SCCM server?

Thanks!

• Marked as answer by Robert Marshall - MVPMVP, Moderator Friday, December 21, 2012 9:44 PM

Hi Ben,

I am not sure, the below idea can help you or not.

You can create an empty file called no_sms_on_drive.sms in the exisiting Distribution point drive and same to follow where you don't want to palce the DP share, without changing or modifying the DP role.

What it will do in SCCM 2007 or 2012 side, if you distribute the new pacakge it won't to go the existing default distribution share. A new distribution point will be create in the same server were no no_sms_on_drive.sms file is present.

Thanks,

Kannan.CS

This has already been discussed here in the forums. To make a long story short: that's not possible yet, but MS is working on a blog article that makes use of the SDK to move the c

If you run the SQL queries below you'll see the settings and other info about the DP's.

select * from v_DistributionPointDriveInfo
select * from v_DistributionPointInfo