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added to the local Administrators group on the computer to which you are adding
this site system role.
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Use Another Account For Installing This Site System
You may choose to use a
specific account for the site system's installation account. If you use a standard user
account, make sure that the account is a member of the local Administrators group
on the site system.
5.
On the Specify Internet Proxy Server page, specify any proxy information required to
connect to the Internet.
6.
On the Specify Roles For This Server page, select the Distribution Point check box.
7.
On the Distribution Point page, configure the following options as necessary:
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Install And Configure IIS If Required By Configuration Manager
This option
allows Configuration Manager to install and configure IIS on the site system server.
If IIS is installed on the site system already, this option ensures that Configuration
Manager configures it as necessary during the distribution point site system role-
installation process.
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Description
This is a text box in which you can provide a brief description of the
distribution point.
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Specify How Client Computers Communicate With This Distribution
Point
Depending on how you configure your site, you might have the option to
specify whether clients use HTTP or HTTPS to communicate with the distribution
point. If this distribution point is intended to support mobile, Mac OS X, or Internet-
based clients, you must configure HTTPS.
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Create A Self-signed Certificate Or Import A PKI Client Certificate
By default,
a distribution point creates a self-signed certificate to use for PXE communications
during operating system deployments. If you use HTTPS for client communication,
import a certificate that a trusted CA issues.
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Enable This Distribution Point For Prestaged Content
When you enable this
option, the site server adheres to the content properties that govern the transfer to
prestaged, content-enabled distribution points.
8.
On the Drive Settings page, specify the drive settings for the distribution point. Config-
ure the following options as necessary:
Drive Space Reserve (MB)
This setting enables you to specify the amount of
space on the drive that should be reserved and the amount that should remain free.
Configuration Manager will not use the specified free space for distribution point
content storage.
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Specify The Locations For The Content Library And Package Share On This
Distribution Point
You can specify two disk drives for the content library location
and two disk drives for the package share location. By default, Automatic is selected
for all options, so the drive with the most available disk space is used. To ensure
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