Redistribute Package in Configuration Manager 2012

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One pain point with Configuration Manager 2007, was that when a package failed to distribute content to a distribution point after the retry count was exceeded, it was permanently stuck in a distributing state. There was no easy supported method to redistribute that package to a specific Distribution Point.

Now in 2012 we have the new option to Redistribute a package.

Open the properties of any application or package and click on the Content Locations tab.

From there you can either select a specific Distribution point or a Distribution Point Group. see Figures below

Application Properties

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Package Properties

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then Click on Redistribute

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Click OK on the Warning and the package will then redistribute the content to that DP or DP Group.