SCCM 2007 Secondary Site Distribution Point Packages Cannot Be Found

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I created a Secondary Site using Kaido Jarvemets's PowerShell script from Codeplex which worked great and it is located here:"Automated Configuration Manager Secondary Site server with PowerShell". Then I used the built-in SCCM Copy Packages Wizard and copied over packages from one of my Distribution Points to the Secondary Sites's DP. The Copy Packages Wizard reported successful, but when I go to my Secondary Site server, I cannot find the packages anywhere. I even ran a Report showing the status of all my DPs and it even showed that all my packages are on my Secondary Site DP, but I have NO IDEA where to find them. Can someone help me out here please? Thanks

Best Answer

When SCCM leverages a site server as a Distribution Point, it creates hidden shares on the hard disks for package distribution. SCCM will use the drive with the most free space at the time the package was added to the DP. The name of the share begins with SMSPKG, followed by the drive letter and the dollar sign.

Assume the distribution point is sent a package. At the time the package is sent, the E: drive has the largest amount of free space. The package will be stored at the hidden share \\{DistributionPoint}\SMSPKGE$\{PKG_ID}. You can find the package ID by various means, but one method might be, from Powershell:

## where XXX is the site code and SCCMSERVER is the name of your SCCM SERVER

PS X:\> gwmi -namespace 'root\sms\site_XXX' -query 'SELECT name,packageId FROM SMS_PACKAGE' -computer SCCMSERVER|select name,packageid

Hopefully this is helpful.

You can confirm the location of any package in the SCCM console by checking the package status node under the Package object in the Software Distribution node. I have attached a screen shot including the relevant details.

SCCM Package Status Node

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