SCCM Distribution Point Role Prerequisites

• Remote Differential Compression
• IIS Configuration
• Application Development: ISAPI Extensions
• Security: Windows Authentication
• IIS 6 Management Compatibility: IIS 6 Metabase and IIS 6 WMI Compatibility

To support PXE or multicast role on DP, the WDS (Windows Deployment Services) role is required. WDS installs and configures automatically when you configure a distribution point to support PXE or Multicast on Windows Server. In addition to that PowerShell 3.0 is required on Windows Server before you install the distribution point.

Deployment

1. Add SCCM site server computer account to the Local Administrators group on the new DP
2. Launch ConfigMgr console
3. Navigate to Administration --> Site Configuration --> Server and Site System Roles
4. Select Create Site System Server
5. Browse and select new Distribution Point server from the Active Directory
6. On the System Role Selection page, check the box "Distribution Point"
7. Select the following ConfigMgr Distribution point settings
   • Install and Configure IIS if required by Configuration Manager
   • Enable and configure BranchCache for this distribution point: Enable this setting to enable and configure BranchCache.
   • Specify LEDBAT enablement
   • Enable this distribution point for pre-staged content (https://blog.ctglobalservices.com/configuration-manager-sccm/kea/configuration-manager-2012-prestage-content-on-distribution-points/)
   • Enable this distribution point to be used as Delivery Optimization In-Network Cache system
   • Select E:\ drive and allocation 100GB of free space for DOINC (Delivery Optimization In-Network Cache Server - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/configmgr/core/plan-design/hierarchy/microsoft-connected-cache)
8. Specify communication preference (HTTP/HTTPS)
9. Specify Distribution Point Drive Settings
   • Specify the drive settings for the distribution point – You can configure up to two disk drives for the content library and two disk drives for the package share.
   • Drive space reserve (MB) – This value here determines the amount of free space on a drive before SCCM chooses a different drive and continues the copy process to that drive. By default the Drive space reserve is 50 MB. In this example I will set it to 1024 MB.
   • Content Locations – Specify the content locations for the content library and package share. By default the content locations are set to Automatic. The primary content location will be set to the disk drive that has the most disk space at installation and the secondary location assigned the disk drive that has the second most free disk space.
10. Click next on pull distribution point page
11. Click next on PXE option page
12. Click next on multicast settings page
13. Click next on content validation settings page
14. Specify boundary group associate with this site system

Distribution Point deployment log file is Distmgr.log