Recommended way to move to a new distribution Point?

Question

I am working on removing the DP from the primary site and move the content to a new dedicated DP. I was wondering if creating a group and then removing the PS would be the best way to do that? or is there a better way to do that?

Answer 1

You can configure the new dp as a pull dp and have it pull the content from a source dp. You can also pre-stage the content to speed up the process.

Answer 2

Hi, @Belgian Malinois

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

Like Rahul mentioned,

Method 1, Use pre-staged content:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/plan-design/hierarchy/manage-network-bandwidth#BKMK_PrestagingContent

This basically allows you to export the content from the old DP and import it on the new DP.

Method 2,

Make the new DP a Pull-DP and set the old DP as the upstream DP. Assign the content to the new DP and it will be copied from the old DP.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/plan-design/hierarchy/use-a-pull-distribution-point

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