I would like to setup a distribution point that would be moved from one location to the next for OSD.  

Would the easiest way be to change the Boundary Group, Content Location, site system servers from Fast to Slow and make this mobile DP Fast?

Thanks,

Jason

What do you mean by move the DP? Physically move a machine?

If a client falls in a boundary group with DPs assigned, it will use those DPs

If you move the server and change boundary groups, then your clients should find the content it needs based on the boundary group itself.  Not sure why you would need to change Fast to Slow on anything.  Is that statement being made because you have a DP there already?  And if so, why not use the existing DP?

What do you mean by move the DP? Physically move a machine?

If a client falls in a boundary group with DPs assigned, it will use those DPs

• Proposed as answer by Joyce LMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 1 hour 33 minutes ago

What do you mean by move the DP? Physically move a machine?

If a client falls in a boundary group with DPs assigned, it will use those DPs

• Proposed as answer by Joyce LMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, May 18, 2015 6:13 AM

If you move the server and change boundary groups, then your clients should find the content it needs based on the boundary group itself.  Not sure why you would need to change Fast to Slow on anything.  Is that statement being made because you have a DP there already?  And if so, why not use the existing DP?

• Proposed as answer by Joyce LMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 1 hour 33 minutes ago

If you move the server and change boundary groups, then your clients should find the content it needs based on the boundary group itself.  Not sure why you would need to change Fast to Slow on anything.  Is that statement being made because you have a DP there already?  And if so, why not use the existing DP?

• Proposed as answer by Joyce LMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, May 18, 2015 6:13 AM

If you are physically moving a DP from one location to another to speed rapid deployment during your company's rolling upgrade, simply creating offline media would be faster/less prone to error.  Buy a couple USB sticks, use the MMC to make them bootable and contain all the packages, then go to town.

If you are physically moving a DP from one location to another to speed rapid deployment during your company's rolling upgrade, simply creating offline media would be faster/less prone to error.  Buy a couple USB sticks, use the MMC to make them bootable and contain all the packages, then go to town.

There are some things stand-alone media cannot do like Auto Apply Drivers and Software Updates. Also, if you are using task sequence variables to define software to install during the TS that won't work either. Basically, anything dynamic doesn't work so it really depends on the TS whether stand-alone media is a good fit or not.

Many folks have used the concept of a mobile/traveling DP to deploy system. It's as simple as adding the system to the correct boundary group and making sure DNS is up to date. That's it. As mentioned by the others, no need to mess with fast/slow, the clients will find the content on the DP and ignore any existing DPs in the same boundary group because presumably they don't have the content required by the TS.

It does beg the question though if you have a local DP, why not use it? You can use pre-staged content on a mobile USB drive to transfer the content around the same way you would a mobile DP. I guess it depends upon the all of the details which are not necessarily ev

I have carts that will move from place to place for OSD that are capable of reimaging 100+ clients simultaneously.  These carts have a DP that will move when them.  These sites may have a DP or not but I want the content to come from the DP that is on the cart.  How do I make sure(best effort) that the laptops pull the content from the DP on the cart?  If a site has a DP I could change it to slow during that period?  Would that work?  Does the Primary(I only have one) always have to be FAST?

Jason

Do the in place DPs also have the content used during the task sequence? I called out this as an assumption (that they didn't) in my answer above. So which is it?

If they do have the content, then you could set to slow during the deployment timeframe and that should work, yes. If they don't have the content, then there's no need to do anything. If they do have the content, is there a reason why they do?

The sites that do have the DP would have some if not all of the content.  

Thank you I will begin testing that process in June.