SCCM package distribution priority

Question

I have in my environment SCCM 2012 SP1 installed.
I created a small testpackage to test upload of that package to all my distribution Points, and created it as a Medium priority package. I saw in the content status view in the console that it was put "In progress" in a queue, I knew
there were other packages uploading to all my DPs. To speed things up, I changed the priority to High after a day or so, because I wanted that package to be uploaded first to all my DPs. No other packages has High in my environment. From the link below, this
would not affect the queue in SCCM 2007, because once the package has been created, you can't change it to distribute faster.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/76626568-a372-4996-8131-3934ed903805/deploying-packages-and-sending-priority?forum=configmgrgeneral
My question is, is this still designed the same way in 2012? Or will SCCM 2012 notice the priority has changed, and pull it in front of the queue?
Freddy

Answer 1

I tried to create a package. When the create wizard is finished and I've clicked OK, then I can go into the Properties, and set HIGH as the priority.
Then I tried to distribute.
This is what I see in the PkgXferMgr.log on the site server:
Wrote 1048576 bytes to
\\CM-DP-IRL-001.domain\SMS_DP$\04437682-dca7-4e60-9e9d-ca8c03056d25-4246D93C093AF6F7FE2ADB2685DF98571508522CA33233EC52DAD7AB8D103BCC at position 4199424
Send Request 10PAHVSM~    Job:        JQCR71DG  Destination:  CM-DP-IRL-001.domain~    State:      Pending   Status:              
Action:    None~    Total size: 0       k Remaining: 0       k Heartbeat: 15:51~    Start:      12:00    
Finish:    12:00      Retry:          ~    SWD PkgID:  VSM00339  SWD Pkg Version: 1
It finished after a few minutes on the other DPs, I don't know if they had a lot to be uploaded at the time i started the distribution. But CM-DP-IRL-001 is clearly uploading other packages first before the one with HIGH as a priority, am I right?