DP role installation completed but distribution failed

Question

I recently installed a new DP role on my Windows Server, but the distribution isn't woking. I keep getting the error "Failed to create virtual directory on the defined share or volume on the distribution point." Any suggestions on what I might have missed or how to fix this issue?

Answer 1

Hi, @jamar clow

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

When you install distribution point role on Windows Server, by default, during the installation, all the required prerequisites are installed. In rare cases, the prerequisites fail to install and that’s when the distribution point fails to install.

We can install IIS base components on SCCM Distribution Point manually to solve the issue, on the Windows Server, run PowerShell as an administrator and type the below command. This will install all the IIS components required for setting up a distribution point.

dism.exe /online /norestart /enable-feature /ignorecheck /featurename:"IIS-WebServerRole" /featurename:"IIS-WebServer" /featurename:"IIS-CommonHttpFeatures" /featurename:"IIS-StaticContent" /featurename:"IIS-DefaultDocument" /featurename:"IIS-DirectoryBrowsing" /featurename:"IIS-HttpErrors" /featurename:"IIS-HttpRedirect" /featurename:"IIS-WebServerManagementTools" /featurename:"IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility" /featurename:"IIS-Metabase" /featurename:"IIS-WindowsAuthentication" /featurename:"IIS-WMICompatibility" /featurename:"IIS-ISAPIExtensions" /featurename:"IIS-ManagementScriptingTools" /featurename:"MSRDC-Infrastructure" /featurename:"IIS-ManagementService"

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