The D-Spot (The Deployment Spot)

If you want to control the location of your packages instead of SCCM using the drive with the most available disk space, resulting in your packages being spread around several drives there are two options:

• Use a server share site system to host the distribution role. This however does not prevent the folder SMSPKGC$ from being created and his some disadvantages… (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892801.aspx)
• Another option is to create an ‘no_sms_on_drive.sms’ file on all drives where you don’t want any packages located. It’s a bit simplistic but it does the trick…

Thought I’d share this since I just used this method for the first time…

Grtz,

Steve.