Troubleshooting our distribution point

Now that we have an understanding of the various features and functions of a distribution point, we should get down to the different ways in which we can troubleshoot it and what resources we have available to do so.

Console

As always, the console will provide us with good high-level, at-a-glance information about the health state of our distribution points. Looking first in the Monitoring | Overview | Distribution Status workspace, we will see that we can take a look at the following items:

  • Content Status
  • Distribution Point Group Status
  • Distribution Point Configuration Status

Content Status

The Content Status workspace will show us various details of each content item including its distribution status, which can ...

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