Preparing New Distribution Point for Deployment

Details: ConfigMgr 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 (for some of the DP's already in production)
I have a new site opening up soon and we will be deploying a server to act as DP and PXE point. The new server is in my office where I have another production DP for the office.
My question is, can I onboard this new server as a DP and PXE point in my office, copy all the packages to it, box it up and take it to the new site, give it a new IP...all without causing a problem when it springs up in the new location. Would all the packages
need to be copied over again? Should I just create prestaged packages for everything? This scenario will come up very often when my company brings up new facilities, so I am just looking for a good way to run the process.

Yes, that will work fine. All you'll have to do is re-IP it when it gets to its destination (as you mentioned) and make sure to include it in its proper boundary group also. Make sure to update DNS also. I'm also assuming there's no domain or name
change involved as that would certainly throw a monkey wrench into it.
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com

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Hi Jeff/Torsten,
Thanks for the revert.
Just to inform you that I need to Create fresh Distribution Point on Windows 7 systems as above technet link is used once you have setup distribution points if you need not have to utilized your 128kbps bandwidth in that scenario I can prestage the content
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Hi Christian
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I suggest that you take a look at my prerequisites installation tool for ConfigMgr 2012 R2, it will make the installation process a lot faster:
1. Download the tool: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ConfigMgr-2012-R2-e52919cd
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@NickolajA

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Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys

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Hello,
I have a new distribution point that clients refuse to download application deployments from. The advertisement(s) get stuck at "Downloading 0%".
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When I take a client and put it on a different subnet, the application downloads from another working DP.
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CAS.log --->Download started for content Content_310d8d2d-9457-455b-ac4a-1a03fb4567f3.1
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Distribution Point='http://MNTH-SP-SRV01.xxxx.local/SMS_DP_SMSPKG$/Content_310d8d2d-9457-455b-ac4a-1a03fb4567f3.1', Locality='LOCAL', DPType='SERVER', Version='7958', Capabilities='<Capabilities SchemaVersion="1.0"><Property Name="SSLState"
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Any Ideas?
If anyone has the list of Operating system requirements for a DP running on Server 2012R2 it would be appreciated also.

I've just tried to reach the admin$ from a remote PC and (from the local server) using PSexec and I can read the admin$ directory without any issues so there is access to the remote DP. I haven't yet looked at the firewall logs but only because
the firewall ports are already allowing traffic to our other DP's.
do the firewall rules differ from server 2008, 2012 and 2012R2? (I have previous 2008 and 2012 servers but this is the first R2 server we are setting up as a DP.)
The firewall rules are the same for 2k8 and 2k12.
When you reach the admin$ share are you using Psexec as the system account and not your use account ? (-i -s as Torsten mentionned) ?
Do you have any other firewall maybe between the machine and the site Server ?
Do you have the SCCMContentLib folder created on the DP ? (On the drive specified in the wizard).
Benoit Lecours | Blog: System Center Dudes

SCCM 2012: failed to connect to distribution point

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I have an intermittent issue and can't figure out the reason so far.
I have a primary server and multiple distribution points. The primary does not have a DP configured. When I deploy a new distribution point, I have the following messages:
Distribution Manager failed to connect to the distribution point. Check your network and firewall settings.
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Distribution Manager failed to find or create the defined share or volume on distribution point.
DistMgr.log shows the following:
CWmi::Connect() failed to connect to \\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\root\CIMv2. Error = 0x800706BA
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Failed to find a valid drive on the distribution point ["Display=\\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=IDC"]\\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\
Cannot find or create the package share.
Error occurred. Performing error cleanup prior to returning.
However, after a while (couple of hours), it looks like everything is distributed on the DP. But this message keeps on coming back during the course of the day and every time a new DP is deployed.
I checked permissions, IIS, WMI, but I can't find out the cause of this behavior. I have events about WMI (id 5605) but I can connect to the WMI workspace (root\MicrosoftIISv2) with no issues.
Can anyone shed some light on this please? It would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Safdar.

To clarify: it's not enough to tick "Windows Authentication" in Add Roles/Features - it actually has to be enabled in IIS configuration.
There are also suggestions to run mofcomp.exe smsdpprov.mof
Tip of me hat:
http://weikingteh.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/failed-to-install-a-new-distribution-point-error-0x800706ba/

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