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Distribution of a boot image to a PXE enabled distribution point fails in Configuration Manager

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This article describes a behavior where you can't distribute a boot image to a PXE enabled distribution point if the NO_SMS_ON_DRIVE.SMS file is on the partition that's used to host the content library.

Original product version:   System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
Original KB number:   2794136

Summary

Copying a boot image to a PXE enabled distribution point in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager fails if the NO_SMS_ON_DRIVE.SMS file is placed on the same partition on which the content library is located.

The error message below is generated in the distmgr.log:

STATMSG: ID=2375 SEV=I LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER" SYS=COMPUTERNAME.COM SITE=SS1 PID=2244 TID=3472 GMTDATE=Mo Aug 06 22:12:55.329 2012 ISTR0="["Display=\\computername.COM\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=SS1"]\\ computername.COM \" ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=1 AID0=404 AVAL0="["Display=\\COMPUTERNAME.COM\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=SS1"]\\ computername.COM \" SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 07.08.2012 00:12:55 3472 (0x0D90)
User (NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) running application(SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER) from machine (COMPUTERNAME.COM) is submitting SDK changes from site(SS1) SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 07.08.2012 00:12:55 3472 (0x0D90)
RDC: Successfully created package signature file from \\?\C:\SMSPKGSIG\CAS0000F.2 to \\COMPUTERNAME.COM\SMSSIG$\CAS0000F.2.tar SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 07.08.2012 00:12:55 3472 (0x0D90) Setting permissions on file MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=SS1"]\\COMPUTERNAME.COM\SMSSIG$\CAS0000F.2.tar. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 07.08.2012 00:12:55 3472 (0x0D90) ExpandPXEImage: CAS0000F, 16778240 SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 07.08.2012 00:12:55 3472 (0x0D90)
CContentDefinition::GetFileProperties failed; 0x80070003 SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 07.08.2012 00:12:55 3472 (0x0D90)
CContentDefinition::TotalFileSizes failed; 0x80070003 SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 07.08.2012 00:12:55 3472 (0x0D90)
ExpandPXEImage failed; 0x80070003 SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 07.08.2012 00:12:55 3472 (0x0D90)
Error occurred. Performing error cleanup prior to returning. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 07.08.2012 00:12:55 3472 (0x0D90)

More information

This behavior is expected if the NO_SMS_ON_DRIVE.SMS file is placed on the drive after using it to host the content library.

To resolve the issue, remove the NO_SMS_ON_DRIVE.SMS file from the partition used to host the content library.