I have seen it once, when my Site server was running on a Windows 2008 server. It goes thru all the packages and verifies each one of them which takes a "little while". In my environment (100 packages on 5 dp's), it took about 4 hours.Kent Agerlund | My blogs: http://blog.coretech.dk/author/kea/ and http://scug.dk/ | Twitter @Agerlund | Linkedin: /kentagerlund

Hello - You must restart the SMS Executive service after the registry changes and will you be able to see the message "Skip DP Properties Verification" in distmgr.log?.Anoop C Nair

I see it in the log SMS_EXECUTIVE started SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER as thread ID 6264 (0x1878). SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:53:45 AM 6028 (0x178C) Starting content package verification thread,thread ID = 189C SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:53:45 AM 6264 (0x1878) VerifyContentPackages: thread started SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:53:45 AM 6300 (0x189C) Skip DP Properties Verification. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:53:45 AM 6264 (0x1878) Found file resetisapi.trn, will try to upgrade SMS hidden file ISAPI on all BITS enabled Distribution Points SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:53:45 AM 6264 (0x1878) Upgrading SMSFileIsapi ... SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:53:45 AM 6264 (0x1878) But still...... Virtual Directory NOCERT_SMS_DP_SMSPKGD$ for the physical path D:\SMSPKGD$ already exists. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:54:09 AM 6264 (0x1878) As this is an upgrade Virtual Directory NOCERT_SMS_DP_SMSPKGD$ will be updated with new properties. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:54:09 AM 6264 (0x1878) target processor architecture is x86 SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:54:09 AM 6264 (0x1878) Successfully created the virtual directory NOCERT_SMS_DP_SMSPKGD$ for the physical path D:\SMSPKGD$. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:54:09 AM 6264 (0x1878) Successfully added file extension C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\smsfileisapi.dll. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:54:10 AM 6264 (0x1878) Setting HTTPUrl to http://DC1400/SMS_DP_SMSPKGD$/BCS00006/ for package BCS00006 on DP \\DC1400\SMSPKGD$ SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:54:10 AM 6264 (0x1878) target processor architecture is x86 SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:54:10 AM 6264 (0x1878) for ["Display=\\dc1400\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=PNP"]\\dc1400\, machine account is to be used SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 2/9/2011 9:54:11 AM 6264 (0x1878)

After R3 upgrade on my Primary site. I notice that during the startup process, Distribution Manager sets the signature and content path URLs for each package on each distribution point. This is taking hrs/days to completed. I already have regkey HKLM\software\microsoft\sms\components\sms_distribution_manager DoNotVerifyDPPropertiesOnStartUp (D_word) set to 1. Any one seen this issue or a way to stop this process? Thanks.

Deleted ResetISAPI.trn present in the distmgr.box on primary site and all is good now.