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automatically classifies the connection as Slow. You can also specify a distribution point
as having a slow connection in relation to a boundary group on which it is a member.
It is also possible to configure deployments to behave differently, depending on the
connection speed.
Content on demand
You can enable the Distribute The Content For This Package To
Preferred Distribution Points property for an application or package to enable
on-demand content distribution to preferred distribution points. If you enable this
setting, when a client requests content that is not available on a preferred distribution
point, the content downloads to all preferred distribution points.
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Scheduling and throttling requirements
You can configure rate limits on distribu-
tion points to control the bandwidth used to copy the content from the site server.
You can do this on all distribution points with the exception of a distribution point on
a site server or a distribution point that you configure as a pull-distribution point. You
can configure rate limits by specifying the amount of bandwidth a transfer can use. In
addition, you can schedule when the transfer can occur.
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Prestaged content requirements
When scheduling and throttling do not provide
the desired control over the content-transfer process, you can configure the Enable
This Distribution Point For Prestaged Content setting in the distribution point proper-
ties on the General tab. When you enable this setting, you can control how content is
copied to a distribution point on a per-package basis. The following options are
available:
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Automatically Download Content When Packages Are Assigned To Distribution
Points
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Download Only Content Changes To The Distribution Point
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Manually Copy The Content In This Package To The Distribution Point
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Support for operating system deployment
In System Center 2012 R2
Configuration Manager, you can enable distribution points to support Pre-Boot
Execution Environment (PXE) and multicast. You can use both of these configurations
for operating system deployment tasks. PXE enables distribution points to respond to
incoming PXE boot requests by clients on the local network. Multicast enables
deploying operating system images by sending data to multiple clients simultaneously
instead of by using a separate connection to each client. If you enable PXE or multicast
settings on a distribution point, the Windows Deployment Services server role installs
automatically on the server. PXE and multicast are not supported on a workstation-
based distribution point.
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BranchCache
System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager and newer versions
support BranchCache distributed mode. You can configure software deployments to
support BranchCache. When a BranchCache-enabled client downloads BranchCache-
enabled content from a BranchCache-enabled distribution point, the client caches the
software locally. When additional BranchCache-enabled clients on the same subnet
need to download the content, they download it from a peer and then cache it. When
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