Orchestrator & ConfigMgr 2012 Install new Distribution Point

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The new ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 CU1 has given us new Powershell cmdlets ( see here and here), one of these is the Add-CMDistributionPoint cmdlet.

Well, I don’t like it, but that’s just me. I still use my own script to install a Distribution Point in SCCM 2012. (look here: How to install a Distribution Point via Powershell)

ConfigMgr / SCCM and Orchestrator combined

Because that is not enough, I went and implemented this script into an Orchestrator runbook, which you can download here: http://davidobrien.codeplex.com/releases/view/103984 or view the code here http://davidobrien.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/f97015e3f140#Install_DistributionPoint_CM12.ois_export

As usual with my runbooks, you’ll need to define your variables in the runbook and globally:

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