SCCM 2012 R2 | Stand-alone Primary Site and multiple DP
Hi,
We have many remote offices in our environment with limited disk space and I would like to know what is the best way to manage content, more specifically applications.
Each remote office has a single DP which is assigned in Boundary Groups. We have over 200GB of applications in our sources$ folder but not every remote offices needs them all and like I said, the disk space is very limited.Also, we don't automatically distribute everything to all DPs to not flood the disk with unneeded apps (disk space saving). Fallback DP is not use either because of bandwidth limitation.
Right now what happens is that when a client requires a software, the helpdesk just add the machine into a collection where the application is deployed (required). Sometime the content is not on the client’s DP so the deployment just fails. Then the helpdesk calls the admin to distribute the content to the client’s DP since they don’t have access to do it. This is the part I would like to automate.
Today I came across an option in the application properties in the Distribution Settings tab: Distribute the content for this package to preferred distribution points.
The explanation above the option says: “When a client requests the content for this package and it is not available on any preferred distribution points for the client, specify whether you want to distribute the content to the preferred distribution points”.
Would this be the solution I’m looking for to automate the distribution of content when a client requests a missing application’s content on it’s DP?
The 1st deployment would probably take more time since it need to download the content on the DP first but at least the helpdesk would not need to call and wait for the admin.
Please feel free to suggest any other solution you might think of.
Thank you in advance!
Jolivia