Hello all!

Here's the situation....

We have an old ConfigMgr Primary site on physical hardware running Server 2003.  I was asked to move this to a virtual running server 2008.  I read that there were issues with doing a site backup from 2003 and restoring it to 2008 so I decided to try another method I read about in these forums.  Create a new primary site as a child of the current primary and let the data flow down, then break that parent/child relationship and switch them and let the data flow up.

2 days ago I created a new VM and installed a primary site on it.  Added the servers to the appropriate groups on both sites, setup the current primary as the parent to the new server.  I exchanged public keys (Here is where I may be experiencing an issue but I'll continue).  The parent server picked up the key and spit out a <childsitecode>.pkc file in the pubkey folder, however the child server never created a <parentsitecode>.pkp file.  I saw a .tmp file appear at one point and it went away but all that is there is the CT5 file from the parent.

I'm looking for errors in the sender/hman/despool logs but I'm not seeing anything.  It looks like the data is flowing from child to parent without issue, but the replication does not seem to be happening from the parent down to the child.  The hman log on the parent is showing acknowledgement of the child but when I search the sender, there is no record of anything going down to the child site. 

I have only added one package to be distributed to this child server to test that downflow communication but it isn't going down.  I've searched all over the 'net and can't find anything.  I would greatly appreciate it if someone could offer some help.

Thanks!

Hi,

Have you create the appropriate address and sender for the site to site communication?

Before joining Configuration Manager 2007 sites, you must first configure the site-to-site communication between them by creating the appropriate addresses between sites.

Also, investigate the log file sender.log and despool.log

That was exactly the issue.  I discovered it a few hours after posting this.  Went running through my checklists and realized I had the sender going from child to parent, but I never set it up on the parent side.  As soon as I plugged that in, everything was working great.  Thanks for the response!