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Hello.
At present we run in production System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager SP1.
It is a standalone primary site.
Some time ago, without first stopping any service, I temporarly moved away a few SCCM folders (under a shares used by SCCM).
After a few hours I moved those folders back in place, but since several things don't behave quite right.
1) Multicast doesn't work. Now I can only deploy OSs via unicast
2) Even when deploying OSs via multicast, some task sequence fails. My impression is that some packets referred to by the tasksequence are not found anymore
Can anybody please guide me through the debugging and fixing?
In parallel I'm installing MECM version 2002, but I would like to learn more by trying to fix the old one.
Thank you and best regards.
Roberto
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1.Have all these 270 been deployed? We need to redeploy the required packages, for example, the package we need to deploy to Machine.
2.If you've got valid backup of all content library folder (SCCMContentLib), it's possible to use pre-stage content to restore the content library without re-distributing all the contents. It's not required to keep daily content backup for DPs, instead keep backup for your site server database.
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Hi @Roberto ,
If you have moved a ConfigMgr content/folder without using the proper tool (content transfer tool), you may have an issue on a different features (DP, OSD etc).
What I suggest to you is to remove the DP, reinstall it again and configure the multicast. You can check distmgr.log log file for more details the DP status.
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Hi.
Just to make sure.. I have about 270 (packages, application, Driver Packages, etc) in distributioin on that DP.
Ir I remove the DP role (is a standalone server), will I have to redeploy all those 270 items? That will require a lot of time with the bigger packages like OSs, driver packages and CADs.
Also, if for any reason something fails and I cannot reinstall the DP role, I will be lost without SCCM.
Maybe I could first try to add a new server with the role of DP so that I will have a backup for the worst case scenario?
Thank you and best regards.
Roberto
If you have a backup of your VM (Site server), you can rollback to the old status, but you may loose new changes on the CMDB etc.
Yes, you can start to install new DP on a remote server and distribute the content of your applications, packages and OS, configure the boundary group with adding the new DP and check the deployment.
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Hi.
I'm sorry for not giving feedback, but I have been working on other things.
Anyways, the problem is not solved yet.
At present I'm on holiday but I'll be back to you next week.
Thank you and best regards.
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Happy new year!
Hello.
Sorry for being late.
At present I'm back to SCCM and working on deleting unneeded packages. I understand I need only a fraction of those 270 packages.. So removal of the DP role from this server will take place only when I'll be done with the cleaning step.
If possibile I would appreciate help on fixing multicast.
Could somebody please help me out?
Thank you.
Roberto
Thanks for the update.
-->Even when deploying OSs via multicast, some task sequence fails.
Please check the smsts.log to see if there are any related errors on these failed clients.
@Youssef Saad
-->It seems that the DP is broken, it is recommended that we install new DP on a remote server and distribute the content to new DP. Or we could roll back to the old status if we have had backed up of our site server before.
Have a good day!
Hi.
Thank you for your answer.
I did try to look into the smsts.log file, but I could not get nowhere.
I just tried again to deploy an OS via Multicast an it worked! :-)
I will now try with the other OS images and task sequences. I'll post here the results.
Maybe fixing the other errors and removing unused packages has helped fix the Multicast problem.
I'll let you know.
Roberto
Thank you for the update and I'm glad to hear this good news. If there is any other assistance we can provide, please feel free to let us know, we will do our best to help you.
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Thank you.
All the OS images and TS works fine again in Multicast.
Best regards.
Roberto
Thank you very much for the update and we're glad the problem is solved now. If you have any questions in future, we warmly welcome you to post in this forum again.