Remote Distribution Points in ConfigMgr 2007

This post will be a short follow-up on a previous post about How a client chooses a Distribution Point. In that post I tried to explain how a client picks a (Remote) Distribution Point (DP). In this post I will try to take away some more confusion about Remote DP’s.

Let’s start with when a DP is considered a Remote DP. ConfigMgr looks at this from the clients perspective. If a client is within a Fast Network Boundary, then the DP(‘s) that is in the same Boundary will be marked as a Local DP. All the other DP’s are marked as Remote DP’s. The important part here is that a client has to be within the correct Boundary and that you are the only one who can make that happen. To make sure which DP is used to download, you have to make the DP Protected with that Boundary.

So if a client is on a remote location, doesn’t mean that it connects to the DP on the remote location. As long as you don’t configure a Boundary for the client, the client will see the DP on its own location as a Remote DP.

For more information about protected DP’s: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892788.aspx

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