Hi,

I wish to change my RemoteInstall folder from my C drive to my D drive, as you can imagine it is filling up. Does anyone have any experience in this and how exactly is it done. Is it just a case of creating a new distribution point on the D drive and use this instead? Would this be a viable option?

Any help greatly appreciated

Declan D

Hi,

If I understand you right then you're talking about to move your Distribution Point to another drivecause your default smspkgc$ share is filling up your C drive.
Here are two options:

1. You could create new site system --> server share and use a dedicated share on your prefered drive on that server. Afterwards you could distribute your new (and even your old)packages to that share.
2. You could move your smspkgx$ share to another drive. A How-To can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2008/09/04/moving-the-smspkgc-share-to-a-different-drive.aspx

• Edited by Stefan Ringler [MSFT] Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:32 AM typo

Hi,

If I understand you right then you're talking about to move your Distribution Point to another drivecause your default smspkgc$ share is filling up your C drive.
Here are two options:

1. You could create new site system --> server share and use a dedicated share on your prefered drive on that server. Afterwards you could distribute your new (and even your old)packages to that share.
2. You could move your smspkgx$ share to another drive. A How-To can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2008/09/04/moving-the-smspkgc-share-to-a-different-drive.aspx

• Edited by Stefan Ringler [MSFT] Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:32 AM typo

Remoteinstall belongs to WDS server, so the procedure for moving DP related stuff don't apply here ...

This is making no sense.

Whenever I create a PXE Service Point in my Configuration Manager I see that a new folder called SMSPXEIMAGES$ under a folder RemoteInstall. Whenever I update any of my boot images I see that they are sent to this folder. This is the folder that I choose when updating my distribution points for example.

So which folder should I be using?

Hi Declan,

I just had this once andtested it in a VM. My SCCM server has a C and D drive. My C drive was larger then my D drive so by default SCCM uses the C drive to store packages.

Perhaps you used to store everyhing on the D drive but when this is filling up SCCM will use the second largest hard drive.

Did you configured WDS manually? I installed WDS did not configure it since this must be done by the PXE Service Point. When adding the PXE role the Remoteinstall folder is also created on the C drive.

I removed everything and now placed a plain textfile at the C drive with the filename no_sms_on_drive.sms (where .sms is the file extension). Now when you repeat the installation steps everything is placed at the D drive. By creating the file you tell SCCM not to use that drive so it will look for the second largest drive. This also counts for the SMSPKGx$ (where x represents your drive letter) share.

It is normal behavior that the SMSIMAGES folder on the RemoteInstall folder is shared as SMSPXEIMAGES$ and that this folder is used to store the uploaded boot images.

Hope this explains it in more detail.

- Jannes Alink

Hi,

Agree with all in this thread :-) It is the WDS remote installation folder you would like to move to D:\remoteinstall - check this step by step guide -http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/13908/how-do-i-move-the-distribution-point-for-remote-installation-services.htmlor simply remove the the WDS service/PSP role, reinstallWDS to d:\ and add the PSP role again.

Ok, I think I know where I have made my faults and what the explanation is and I will do my best here to explain it. If I am wrong in any of this, someone please step in and let me know.

I am using Configuration Manager for Operating System Deployment this means that even though Windows Deployment Services is installed, I am not using it. I am using the services it supplies but that is it.

So, originally when I enabled the PXE folder I saw nothing in my C drive, however when I went to copy the boot images to a distribution point (which is usually your first action if you are using OSD) I saw that there were two DPs. I choose the second one that had the share name of SMSPXEIMAGES$ (orginal folder name is RemoteInstall which now I have realised that even though I am not using WDS, this is the DP for WDS! I need to choose the first DP I see in the list which is the DP for SCCM, this is called SMSPKGD$

This clears up the confusion why I/everyone will have two DPs

To move my DP then to my C drive to my D drive, was very simple in the end. I took the following steps:

1 Remove the Boot image files from the DP

2 Remove the PXE Service point server role from my configuration manager server.

3 Deleted the following folders from my C drive:

RemoteInstall / SMSPKGD$ / SMSSIG$

4 Rebooted my server

5 Created a simple text file called no_sms_on_drive.sms

6 Enabled the PXE Service point server role on my configuration manager server

7 Noticed that the following folders were NOT on my D drive

RemoteInstall / SMSPKGD$ / SMSSIG$

8 Regardless I went ahead for the boot image files (when copying them to a DP specified to create a new DP and specified the first DP on the list and NOT the SMSPXEIMAGES$ folder! Once I had done this (afterwards) the following folders had appeared on my D drive but I noticed that the did not have the share icon

9 - Rebooted the server and now the three folders had the share icon

This is how I did it

Whew!

Is this clear for everyone what happened?

I put the no_sms_on_drive.sms file on my C drive so no SMS componet would be created there. When I created the PXE service point no folders were created on the D drive, the only happened when I selected that something be copied to the DP.

Strange but true!

hey man, do this:

stop wds service:
wdsutil /Uninitialize-Server

copy c:\RemoteInstall folder to new drive

then:
wdsutil /Initialize-Server /REMINST:"D:\RemoteInstall"

start wds service or restart server.

done.

• Proposed as answer by MR. LONSKi 4 hours 57 minutes ago

hey man, do this:

stop wds service:
wdsutil /Uninitialize-Server

copy c:\RemoteInstall folder to new drive

then:
wdsutil /Initialize-Server /REMINST:"D:\RemoteInstall"

start wds service or restart server.

done.

• Proposed as answer by MR. LONSKi Monday, April 06, 2015 2:38 AM

hey man, do this:

stop wds service:
wdsutil /Uninitialize-Server

copy c:\RemoteInstall folder to new drive

then:
wdsutil /Initialize-Server /REMINST:"D:\RemoteInstall"

start wds service or restart server.

done.

• Proposed as answer by MR. LONSKi Monday, April 06, 2015 2:38 AM