SCCM 2012: failed to connect to distribution point

Hi folks,

I have an intermittent issue and can't figure out the reason so far.

I have a primary server and multiple distribution points. The primary does not have a DP configured. When I deploy a new distribution point, I have the following messages:

Distribution Manager failed to connect to the distribution point. Check your network and firewall settings.

and

Distribution Manager failed to find or create the defined share or volume on distribution point.

DistMgr.log shows the following:

CWmi::Connect() failed to connect to \\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\root\CIMv2. Error = 0x800706BA

STATMSG: ID=2391 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER" SYS=BBD-SCCM-E.domain.name SITE=IDC PID=2120 TID=3376 GMTDATE=do jun 28 07:24:17.463 2012 ISTR0="["Display=\\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=IDC"]\\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\" ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=1 AID0=404 AVAL0="["Display=\\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=IDC"]\\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\"

ERROR DPConnection::ConnectWMI() - Failed to connect to  AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name. error = 0x800706ba

Failed to find a valid drive on the distribution point ["Display=\\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=IDC"]\\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\

Cannot find or create the package share.

Error occurred. Performing error cleanup prior to returning.

However, after a while (couple of hours), it looks like everything is distributed on the DP. But this message keeps on coming back during the course of the day and every time a new DP is deployed.

I checked permissions, IIS, WMI, but I can't find out the cause of this behavior. I have events about WMI (id 5605) but I can connect to the WMI workspace (root\MicrosoftIISv2) with no issues.

Can anyone shed some light on this please? It would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Safdar.

June 28th, 2012 7:53am

Hi Torsten,

I've disabled Windows Firewall and both the primary and the DP are sitting in the same subnet. No other firewall in between.

I can telnet ports and while doing a netstat -ano I can see that connections are established.

Cheers,

Safdar.



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June 28th, 2012 8:33am

I've been running into this same issue when trying to install a remote DP.  The remote DP was previously used as a DP for our SCCM 2007 infrastructure so connections from the Primary site to the remote site have always worked fine.

What i had to do to was to select an admin account to install the site system role rather than the Site Server computer account even though the primary site server is a local admin in the remote dp system.


  • Proposed as answer by Dan_754 Saturday, December 01, 2012 12:06 AM
July 12th, 2012 6:26pm

I fixed this by doing the following two things

1. Enable Windows Authentication in IIS

2. Installed IIS 6 WMI Compatability

Hopefully this helps someone else.

  • Proposed as answer by Aayush Bhatt Thursday, September 18, 2014 6:55 AM
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May 30th, 2014 1:52am

Thank you Nick Kershner.
  • Edited by Oded BR Wednesday, January 14, 2015 9:55 AM
January 14th, 2015 9:51am

I had the same experience as Brian.  I was getting the 0x800706BA error on one of the SCCM DPs that I was upgrading.  I tried just installing a new DP and used a regular account with admin permissions on the DP and it worked.  Of course, it may have just worked because I installed it as a new DP instead of upgrading.  Thanks!
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June 4th, 2015 2:15pm

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