Hi folks,

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.

and

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

STATMSG: ID=2391 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER" SYS=BBD-SCCM-E.domain.name SITE=IDC PID=2120 TID=3376 GMTDATE=do jun 28 07:24:17.463 2012 ISTR0="["Display=\\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=IDC"]\\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\" ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=1 AID0=404 AVAL0="["Display=\\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=IDC"]\\AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name\"

ERROR DPConnection::ConnectWMI() - Failed to connect to  AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name. error = 0x800706ba

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.

• Moved by Stan White [MSFT]Microsoft employee, Moderator Friday, June 29, 2012 2:03 PM (From:Configuration Manager 2012 - General)

Hi Torsten,

I've disabled Windows Firewall and both the primary and the DP are sitting in the same subnet. No other firewall in between.

I can telnet ports and while doing a netstat -ano I can see that connections are established.

Cheers,

Safdar.

• Edited by Safdar Alibay Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:34 AM

Other suggestions to help out maybe?

Thanks,

Safdar.

Network layer issues like this are tricky to troubleshoot because there is no way for the application to know why its traffic did not go through and unless you replicate exactly what the app does, your manual testing may or may not be conclusive. The error message in this case is a clear connectivity issue thus Telneting on random ports and checking for connections on other ports is pretty meaningless as the issue may only be on a specific port (or set of ports).

Have you tried to connect to WMI on the target DP from the primary site server?  

I've been running into this same issue when trying to install a remote DP.  The remote DP was previously used as a DP for our SCCM 2007 infrastructure so connections from the Primary site to the remote site have always worked fine.

What i had to do to was to select an admin account to install the site system role rather than the Site Server computer account even though the primary site server is a local admin in the remote dp system.

• Proposed as answer by Dan_754 Saturday, December 01, 2012 12:06 AM

Is this the name of the DP or the Primary? AMB-SCCM-E.domain.name

I had the same issue. For me, uninstalling and reinstalling the DP fixed that issue.

Cheers

Sebastian

I had the same issue. For me, uninstalling and reinstalling the DP fixed that issue.

Cheers

Seb

Hi Jason,

Please let me know steps to connect to WMI on the target DP from the primary site server?

I am having a same problem. Even re-installing DP in my environment is not solving above issue. 

Hi Try this

In my case, It has worked.

While installing and configuring DP, Enable "Install and configure IIS if required by configuration manger" option.

This error will go and check the status in Distribution status (In Monitoring)

I fixed this by doing the following two things

1. Enable Windows Authentication in IIS

2. Installed IIS 6 WMI Compatability

Hopefully this helps someone else.

• Proposed as answer by Aayush Bhatt Thursday, September 18, 2014 6:55 AM

This worked like a champ.  If the need for IIS 6 WMI compatibility is in the manual somewhere I missed it.

Thank you Nick.

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/

• Edited by Oded BR Wednesday, January 14, 2015 9:55 AM

My HERO!   Finally a solution.   I was getting the infamous:

Failed to get DP locations as the expected version from MP

Tried redistributing the client package, got an error.   tried the IIS 6 WMI compatibility, fixed my issue.   Thanks mucho!