Deploy and manage desktop and mobile applications - Managing Enterprise Devices and Apps - page 112

■ Works with all content types.
■ Works with content libraries and package shares.
■ Registers content availability automatically with the site server upon content extraction
on the distribution point.
■ Uses a compressed, prestaged content file with the .pkgx extension.
■ Can be used to prestage multiple content files in a single operation.
■ Offers a conflict detection mechanism as part of the extraction tool to prevent earlier
versions of content from being prestaged on a distribution point.
Consider prestaging content for applications and packages when:
■ You have limited network bandwidth between the site server and the distribution
point. While distributing content over the network to a remote distribution point, and
when scheduling and throttling do not reduce network traffic sufficiently, consider
prestaging the content on the distribution point.
■ You need to restore the content library on a site server. If a site server fails, information
about packages and applications in the content library is restored to the site database
as part of the restore process. However, the site backup does not include content
library files by default. If you do not have a file system backup to restore the content
library, you can create a prestaged content file from another site that contains the
packages and applications that you need and then extract the prestaged content file
on the recovered site server.
Prior to prestaging content, you must perform the following steps on the distribution
point that will receive prestaged content:
1. On the General tab of the Distribution Point Properties dialog box, select the Enable
This Distribution Point For Prestaged Content check box.
2. On the Distribution Settings tab of the dialog box for content type properties, ensure
that you configure the Prestaged Distribution Point settings. These settings include:
■ Automatically Download Content When Packages Are Assigned To Distribution
Points.
■ Download Only Content Changes To The Distribution Point.
■ Manually Copy The Content In This Package To The Distribution Point.
To prestage the content, use the following procedure:
1. Create a prestaged content file. You can create a prestaged content file for any type
of content. To create the prestaged content file, right-click the content or multiselect
two or more instances of content and right-click them and then click Create Prestaged
Content File.

In the Create Prestaged Content File Wizard, specify the name and location for the
content file and then complete the wizard. The Create Prestaged Content File Wizard
creates a single file with a .pkgx extension.

2.