Really? I think we tested that, but it could have been 2008 R2, will check 2008 
and update if that it's the case. Good find!

//Andreas

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Roland Janus
Sent: den 5 december 2014 00:21
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck

How about a comment on this from your site:

Are Hashes Lost If The Server Reboots?
That's a lie, floating around on some websites, hashes are kept over reboots. 
So you can reboot as much as you like.
That's exactly what I saw on Server 2008. Every reboot and it had to download 
again. It does happen. On Server 2008.

-R


From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andreas Hammarskjöld
Sent: Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2014 23:27
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck

Yeah, that old chestnut! Not only does that whitepaper have a lot of 
misconceptions/confusion on how BranchCache works, with the upcoming 
BranchCache for OSD pretty much all of those arguments fall. And then we 
haven't even covered the points where BranchCache kick butts! :)

Once we got "BranchCache for OSD" 1.0 out the door we will make an updated 
whitepaper. And yeah, did I mention its free? :)

//Andreas

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Troy Martin
Sent: den 4 december 2014 22:59
To: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck

If you're seriously considering BranchCache as the alternate content provider 
for your organization, be sure to do your homework, by first reading a white 
paper Paul Thomsen has written:

http://www.1e.com/blog/all_resources/branchcache-right-organisation/

In the white paper, we look at the key reasons why BranchCache is not suitable 
for SCCM content distribution and examine why the expectation that BranchCache 
could be appropriate for SCCM content distribution should be questioned and 
compared to alternatives before deploying in your organization. The paper also 
reviews how BranchCache works, how it has changed over the years, and where to 
learn more.

So while BranchCache "works", the bigger question is whether it's right for 
your organization's needs.

Again, do your homework first...

Sent from my iPhone

On Dec 4, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Andreas Hammarskjöld 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Even better, use BranchCache since its free and works great?

//Andreas

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Magnus Tveten
Sent: den 4 december 2014 04:03
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck

AdaptivaOnesite is really good to... the way it uses the network without 
interfering with anything.

We used that to push Win7 Image (+ all the needed software packages) to 
machines at all the different sites with very small links and not once did 
anyone from the business find the network slow..



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From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike
Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2014 12:02 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck

Perhaps, something like NomadBranch?  ;)


From: 'Michael Mott' <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 6:00 PM
To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck

Use a product that invokes the ACP.

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Schwan, Phil
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 2:46 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck

No. Once you make it a Pull DP, it essentially becomes a sort of slaved client 
and uses BITS for the transfers.

DistMgr won't move on to other packages until the PkgXferMgr reports back that 
the one it's working on is done, so one very large package like this can tie 
everything up.

Here's a paraphrase from Todd about how the Pull DP is supposed to work:


-          Pull content from source DP and do the processing of the content 
locally

-          DistMgr creates a snapshot and calculates the HASH

-          PkgXferMgr sends a package info bundle (XML inside of .tar) to the 
PullDP

-          PullDP opens the XML and gets a list of content from the DPLocation 
DPUrl

-          PullDP component on the DP checks to see how many of the files are 
already loaded

-          PullDP component passes list of files to DTS

-          DTS creates BITS download job

-          CCMEXEC gets the files form BITS download location and writes them 
to disk

-          SMSDPProv imports the content into the Content Library

-          PullDP creates status messages and sends to Site Server

However, you can end up encountering issues with large packages timing out, 
refreshes causing the already copied files to be deleted (meaning the whole 
thing starts over), and so on.

Among his (supported) recommendations were increasing the DistMgr thread limit, 
increasing the query interval and timeout values, and making sure you're at 
R2CU3 (some of the issues have been fixed over the course of the last few CUs).

Hope that helps!

-Phil

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From:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gilmanov, Nile
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 5:16 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck

Funny this is... After I turned it into a PULL DP, the Schedule tab 
disappeared... aint' that great?

Guess have to reverse the changes, then back to PULL, unless there is still a 
hidden way.

Nile Gilmanov
Systems Administrator
Wabash National Corporation
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | 
Office: 765.772.2691 | Mobile: 765.414.7402

From:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gilmanov, Nile
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 5:11 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck

Well... THANK YOU! I have been checking this thread every 15 minutes!

Going to put this to the test right now!

Nile Gilmanov
Systems Administrator
Wabash National Corporation
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | 
Office: 765.772.2691 | Mobile: 765.414.7402

From:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Magnus Tveten
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 4:57 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck

Hmmmm I seem to remember one time being told that if a DP (well this was in 
SCCM2007, so a secondary site) rate limit was not ever at 100% it would only do 
one package at the time ?

[cid:[email protected]]
So if I'm correct (huge chance I'm not) then from 7 am to 6pm it woudl only do 
one pacakge at the time...
And we had ours at max of 90% so we always only had one package being processed 
at a time..

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From:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gilmanov, Nile
Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2014 2:12 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck

ConfigMgr 2012 R2 CU2 I believe per:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Setup
    Version    REG_SZ    7958
    Full Version    REG_SZ    5.00.7958.1000
    UI Version    REG_SZ    7958
    Phase    REG_DWORD    0x1c7
    ReplicationPhase    REG_DWORD    0x0
    Estimated Number of Clients    REG_DWORD    0x0
    Server Platforms    REG_DWORD    0x20
    User    REG_SZ
    Organization    REG_SZ
    Type    REG_DWORD    0x1
    ReplicationMode    REG_DWORD    0x0
    Installation Directory    REG_SZ    e:\Program Files\Microsoft 
Configuration Manager
    UI Installation Directory    REG_SZ    e:\Program Files\Microsoft 
Configuration Manager\AdminConsole
    Product ID    REG_SZ    NONEVAL
    Provider Location    REG_SZ    wnclafsccfg01.Wabashnational.lan
    InstalledSqlExpress    REG_DWORD    0x0
    External File Directory    REG_SZ    E:\UpgradetoR2\SetupDL
    Stop Setup Monitoring    REG_DWORD    0x1
    CULevel    REG_DWORD    0x2
    PrerequisiteDir    REG_SZ    E:\UpgradetoR2\SetupDL

IMO irrelevant but since I was there here is my SENDER Properties:

Max Concurr. Settings-----------------------
All sites:               5
Per site:               3
Retry settings---------
Number of retries:           2
Delay before retrying      1

Nile Gilmanov
Systems Administrator
Wabash National Corporation
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | 
Office: 765.772.2691 | Mobile: 765.414.7402

From:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Schwan, Phil
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 9:56 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck

Paging Mr. Todd Hemsell.  Mr. Hemsell, you have a telephone call. :)

Nile, what version of ConfigMgr 2012 are you running (SP/CU/etc.)?

-Phil



From:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gilmanov, Nile
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 9:35 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] Distribution Bottleneck

Was wondering if anyone here understands Distribution better than I as this is 
really frustrating:

Basically I keep running into the same issue, every time I send a large package 
out it seems to bottle-neck everything else, even little things get stuck 
waiting for this huge package to complete.

My environment is Primary Site, 3-4 DPs that get content directly from PRI, 2 
PULL DPs that pull from one of the former DPs.

WNCNLSCCMDP01 is a PULL DP, here its full status from the [Distribution Point 
Configuration Status] view in Monitoring:

        12/3/2014 8:52:00 AM    Distributing content    Distribution Manager 
instructed Package Transfer manager to send package "LF1001E7" to distribution 
point 
"["Display=\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=LF1"]\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\<file:///\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\>".
    In Progress     LF1001E7
        12/2/2014 3:29:00 PM    Processing content on site server       
Distribution Manager successfully processed package "Workstations_PatchUp_2014" 
(package ID = LF1001FA).        In Progress     LF1001FA
        12/2/2014 8:05:00 AM    Distributing content    Distribution Manager 
instructed Package Transfer manager to send package "LF100167" to distribution 
point 
"["Display=\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=LF1"]\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\<file:///\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\>".
    In Progress     LF100167
        12/3/2014 9:17:00 AM    Content is being distributed to the 
distribution point  Package Transfer Manager is currently sending software 
distribution package LF10021B to distribution point server 
WNCNLSCCMDP01.CM12ROCKS.LAN, 89 percent of the sending has already completed. 
In Progress     LF10021B
        12/3/2014 2:34:00 AM    Processing content on site server       
Distribution Manager successfully processed package "SCEP_Signatures" (package 
ID = LF1001F7).  In Progress     LF1001F7
        12/2/2014 6:48:00 AM    Distributing content    Distribution Manager 
instructed Package Transfer manager to send package "LF1002DB" to distribution 
point 
"["Display=\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=LF1"]\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\<file:///\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\>".
    In Progress     LF1002DB

I can confirm that LF10021B (29 GB in size by the way) is still getting sent to 
the DP. Per its SMSDPROV.log:

[C74][Wed 12/03/2014 08:26:57]:Content '9a596c68-ab09-4869-9c8c-1162d7211f2a' 
for package 'LF10021B' has been added to content library successfully
[C74][Wed 12/03/2014 08:27:00]:Content '1fcd38d1-413f-4b4c-86e1-ecec08966734' 
for package 'LF10021B' has been added to content library successfully
[C74][Wed 12/03/2014 08:27:06]:Content '492b9f3f-e9e8-4a2f-94ec-eb905b7ad4a2' 
for package 'LF10021B' has been added to content library successfully
[DF0][Wed 12/03/2014 08:28:01]:Content 'b3c03b56-886c-46a3-8ea7-ba0a6c90e309' 
for package 'LF10021B' has been added to content library successfully

ONLY LF10021B is being distributed... WTH?

Here is my settings in the primary site [Software Distribution Component 
Properties] window:

----Concurrent distribution settings---------------------

Maximum number of packages:     7
Maximum threads per package:    5

----Retry settings---------------

Number of retries:              100
Delay before retrying:          30

----Multicast retry settings-----------

Number of retries:              3
Delay before retrying:          1


Any ideas guys??? I can't seem to find a good resource online for distribution 
that addresses multitasking extensively.

Thanks,
Nile






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