{"id":9149,"date":"2008-08-06T10:23:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9149"},"modified":"2008-08-06T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"preload-package-tool-for-configmgr-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9149","title":{"rendered":"Preload Package Tool for ConfigMgr 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has just released <\/a>this very handy utility for SCCM 2007.\u00a0 It previously was released for SMS 2003.<\/p>\n

Imagine this scenario.\u00a0 You’ve got a HQ running System Center Configuration Manager 2007.\u00a0 You’ve got a series of branch offices with limited bandwidth and local distribution points.\u00a0 You want to deploy your latest build of Office 2007.\u00a0 Now that is a big package.\u00a0 You could let it replicate over the WAN at the weekend but maybe your business is open 7 days a week.\u00a0 I’ve seen this scenario where SMS controlled the PC’s in a retail operation whose market was 7 days a week.\u00a0 Using this tool, you could conceivably distribute the package via DVD and manually load it into your distribution points.\u00a0 Sure, this is manual work but it’s meant to be used in only those exceptional circumstances where there are huge packages to replicate.\u00a0 Once you’ve imported the package on the distribution point, you add the site to the package properties in the SCCM console.<\/p>\n

Here’s how MS describes it:<\/p>\n

"When software distribution packages are created, information about them is sent to child sites in the hierarchy. If a child site has a distribution point installed that is listed in the package properties to host the content, the content is transferred over the network and uses available network bandwidth sending compressed copies of all required package source files. To avoid using network bandwidth, the Preload Package Tool can be used to copy compressed software distribution package source files to the remote child site before assigning the child site distribution point to host the package source files".<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has just released this very handy utility for SCCM 2007.\u00a0 It previously was released for SMS 2003. Imagine this scenario.\u00a0 You’ve got a HQ running System Center Configuration Manager 2007.\u00a0 You’ve got a series of branch offices with limited bandwidth and local distribution points.\u00a0 You want to deploy your latest build of Office 2007.\u00a0 … Continue reading “Preload Package Tool for ConfigMgr 2007”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sccm-2007"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t