Courier Sender is an SMS thread component that writes SMS software distribution packages and data on physical media such as compact discs, floppy disks, or tapes to be sent to SMS sites when only very limited bandwidth is available. This flowchart documents the activity that takes when an SMS administrator at a sending site chooses Courier Sender as the preferred sender for a package and, after Distribution Manager has sent a request to distribute the package, uses the Courier Sender Outgoing Parcel Wizard to create the parcel. This flowchart also documents the activity that takes when an SMS administrator at a destination site opens and decompresses the parcel.
You enable Courier Sender by using the SMS Administrator console to create a Courier Sender address. Click on Addresses under Site Settings. Use Courier Sender to distribute packages to a child site that is connected only via a slow, unreliable, or intermittent link.
The activity illustrated in this flowchart takes place on both the sending site server and the destination site server.