I need to add a package to a DP programmatically but the SDK solution yields slightly different results to the manual solution.

Question

Hi
I have been using this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc144027.aspx
to add packages to configmgr 2007 but I have noticed that if I look at the distribution points for the package, the site name doesn't exist like it does if it has been added manually. Other than that, the package does actually appear to get physically copied
over to the DP but I am unhappy using this in production until I can sort this out.
Anyone know what I am missing? In the above example I pass the site code of the (secondary) site server (257) and the server name itself. I assume this is correct, but I must be missing something.
Additionally, I noticed that if more than one DP share exists, eg a package DP and an SMSPXE$ on the same server, it tries to put it on the last one it finds, usually SMSPXE$. I get round this by filtering the returned string but wondered if there was a
more elegant solution.
Thanks

Answer 1

OK looks like I've fixed this. I've added a new query to get the site description (sitedescriptionquery) and simply added that to the distribution point properties before saving.
Given that this is the default in ConfigMgr 2007 I am surprised the SDK code doesn't include this. The workaround to avoid putting the package on SMSPXE$ is also included below.
string query = "SELECT * FROM SMS_SystemResourceList WHERE RoleName='SMS Distribution Point' AND SiteCode='" + siteCode + "' AND ServerName='" + serverName + "'";
string sitedescriptionquery = "SELECT * FROM SMS_Site Where SiteCode='" + siteCode + "' AND ServerName='" + serverName + "'";
IResultObject listOfDescriptions = WMIConn().QueryProcessor.ExecuteQuery(sitedescriptionquery);
foreach (IResultObject site in listOfDescriptions)
siteName = site["SiteName"].StringValue;
IResultObject listOfResources = WMIConn().QueryProcessor.ExecuteQuery(query);
foreach (IResultObject resource in listOfResources)
if (resource["NALPath"].StringValue.IndexOf("SMSPXEIMAGES$") < 0)
distributionPoint["ServerNALPath"].StringValue = resource["NALPath"].StringValue;
distributionPoint["SiteCode"].StringValue = resource["SiteCode"].StringValue;
distributionPoint["SiteName"].StringValue = siteName;