Part 15 - SCCM 2012 R2 Installation : Distributing Boot Image packgae to Distributing Point (DP)



After SCCM Primary site is installed successfully, the next thing is to distribute the boot image to Distribution Point, There are 2 boot image packages which are created by default for different system architecture. They are under - Software Library\Operating Systems\Boot images


Right click in the boot image & select "Properties" They are few settings which needs to be changed before the boot image are distributed to the DP:-


Go to the Data Access Tab & check "Copy the content in the package to a package share on the distribution point" (This will copy the boot image bits to the distribution point) :-


Go to the "Distribution Settings" Tab & set the :-

Priority to High,
Check "Distribute the content of the package to the preferred distribution points"
Select - "Automatically download content when packages are assigned to the Distribution Point"


  Go to the Customization Tab & check "Enable command support (testing only) & the click on OK"



  Right click on the Boot image & select Distribute Content :-


 Click on Next :-


Click on Add :- 


 Select Distribution Point :-


Check the Distribution Point & click on OK :- 


Click on Next to continue :- 


Click Next :- 


Click on Close to end the Wizard :- 


Once the package is distributed successfully the Content Status for the package will change to Green (When the Content distribution is in progress the content status us Yellow) :-


You can go to the Distribution point folder  & verify if the package was distributed to the DP, a folder with the package id is created in DP, for the boot image we distributed the package id was DMW00005 & it has been copied successfully to the DP :-

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