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Greetings,
If I remove the DP role from a server in CM 2107, which folders have to be manually deleted?
Anything else that needs to be manually deleted? e.g. IIS config?
Thanks
David Z
On primary site, you shouldn't remove any of these folder even the DP role is removed. They are needed to distribute the content to other DP's where needed and these folders get created default with/without DP enabled on the primary site.
RemoteInstall is for PXE enabled DP. So if your DP on the primary site not PXE any longer, you can remove this but not the other folders.
What is your end goal?
Thanks,
Eswar
www.eskonr.com
Im curious as to why those folders are needed. Isnt it true that if I wanted to configure my primary sight server using High-availability then no content can be stored on the primary site server?
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@David Zemdegs
I agree with @ESWARARAJU KONETI It is not recommended to remove the above mentioned folders. As far as I know, the related files will be removed automatically after you removed the DP. Also we could delete the content files on the local which has been distributed to the DP before.
Hope the above will be helpful.
Rita
Removal of the DP from console, will remove the IIS and the contentlib folders. There are cases that i have seen, the contentlib folder dont get remove so we will check the DP removal status from the log and confirm this is completed successfully before i rename the contentlib folder and then delete after 1-2 days.
Thanks,
Eswar
www.eskonr.com
The folders that still exist after removal are:
RemoteInstall
SCCMContentLib
SMS_DP$
SMSPKG<drive>$
SMSPKGSIG
Can all these be safely removed? The server that had the DP role removed is the primary site server.
end goal is moving the DP role away from the primary site server to a dedicated DP server.
I thought we would end up with alot more free disk space but from what you are saying, those folders are still needed even if its no longer a dp.
Hi, @David Zemdegs
Like EswarKoneti-MVP said, these folders are needed to distribute the content to other DP's, the documentation mentioned:
The site automatically creates and maintains a copy of the content library on each site server and each distribution point.
You may consider to configure a remote content library for the primary site server:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/plan-design/hierarchy/remote-content-library
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