How to move SCCM Move Content Library to another drive

Jonathan LefebvreApril 05 20222 Min Read

Contributor of System Center Dudes. Based in Montreal, Canada, Senior Microsoft SCCM consultant, working in the industry for more than 10 years. He developed a strong knowledge of SCCM and MDT to build automated OS deployment solution for clients, managed large and complexe environment, including Point of Sale (POS) related projects.

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One of the common mistakes we still see is having SCCM Move Content Library folders on many different drives, most of the time not on purpose. Usually, this will lead to the C drive being full, or the drive where the SQL database sits. This will then cascade into a series of errors all over SCCM.

In this post, we will show how to use the SCCM Content Library Transfer tool to move distribution content folders

Prerequisites

If you are running SCCM latest build, the tool is now build-in the install folder

If you are running a version older than Current Branch 1802, you will need to download the SCCM 2012 toolkit

Important Info

Turn out that the built-in version of the Content Library Transfer in SCCM 1802 and higher as issues that should be fixed with v1810 that should release soon.

This user voice item as all the details

Move SCCM Move Content Library

Limitations

Run the tool locally on the distribution point. You can’t run it from a remote computer
Only use it when clients aren’t actively accessing the distribution point. If you run the tool while clients are accessing content, the content library on the destination drive may have incomplete data. The data transfer might fail altogether leading to an unusable content library
Don’t distribute content to the distribution point when you run the tool. If you run the tool while content is being written to the distribution point, the content library on the destination drive may have incomplete data. The data transfer might fail altogether leading to an unusable content library.

Find the drives where there are Distribution Point content folder that shouldn’t be there

You can see the Content Library folder location in a registry key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SMS\DP\

As stated in the limitation, the Distribution Point needs to stop providing content to clients. This can be achieved by multiple solutions:
- Remove the distribution point from any Boundary group
- stop network connection to that distribution point
- Stop IIS on that distribution point
Open a command prompt on the faulty distribution point
Browse to <SCCM install folder>\Tools\ServerTools
- Using the old SCCM 2012 toolkit, the path will be <Program Files(x86)\ConfigMgr 2012 Toolkit R2\Server Tools
- If this is to be run on a remote distribution point, simply copy over the ContentLibraryTransfer.exe
- Command-line: contentlibrarytransfer.exe -SourceDrive f -TargetDrive e
- You will need to repeat this if you have distribution point content on multiple drives and want to consolidate all of them

Transfer started. This will take time has it copy over all the content

Transfer completed

Content has been moved off the F drive

Put the SCCM distribution point back online

Hope you found this blog useful!

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Comments (6)

Stefan

01.13.2021 AT 05:52 AM

Hi Jonathan. Moving new content Library (disk E) to existing Content Library on Disk D I have here MECM 2010 with Disk C (System Disk) Disk D (SCCM) and a new Disk E MECM started to use E as space for Contend Lib cause D was run out of space. Now i made Disk D bigger and i would like to move the new content from Disk E to Disk D so that the whole Content Library is on Disk D. Is this also possible with that tool or only moving the whole Content Library from old disk to new disk ? Thank you very much for your feedback

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01.13.2021 AT 08:25 AM

Hi Stefan, yes this tool is designed to do exactly that. Jonathan

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ErChao,Cheng

02.20.2020 AT 09:48 PM

DISTRIBUTION POINT CONTENT FOLDERS how to move share folder

Michael

02.12.2020 AT 01:25 AM

Hi, I used that on an DP for SCCM Current Branch 1902, I set Remote DP in Maintenance Mode and used the ContentTool as stated above. It did not copy over NTFS and SMB Permissions. After I set them SCCM copied the entire Library over because he said he could not validate the Packets. Can somebody tell me what happened?

CBO

04.18.2019 AT 04:20 AM

You can now use this new SCCM 1902 Feature : DP in Maintenance mode. And move that Lib ! 🙂

06.11.2019 AT 01:39 PM

Absolutely! Thanks for the comment CBO Jonathan

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