Removing a retired DP from all your packages

posted by  mneon (8)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

When you remove an SMS 2003 Distribution Point (DP) from a site, and existing packages have been distributed to this DP, those packages may not be removed.  If you look at that package in the admin console you will notice that the the type has changed from "Server" to "Unknown".  The Package Status will also show a type of nothing instead of "Server".

To properly remove these you can use the Manage Distribution Points Wizard to uncheck the DP before removing it as a site system.  This can be a tedious task if