How To: Initiate the “Validate” Action on all DPs for a Package in ConfigMgr 2012
From the archive (2013). Written for the tools of the time, so some details may be out of date.
Great post by fellow MVP Greg Ramsey. That guy comes up with some awesome stuff :)
ConfigMgr 2012 has a feature that allows you to validate content of a distribution point on a schedule, which works great for normal business. However, if you encounter an issue on a package and need to validate content immediately for each DP, it does require a bit of effort, as you have to go to the object in question, view the properties, then on the Content Locations tab, select a DP and click “Validate” – rinse and repeat–you must do this for each DP to validate content, as described in the documentation. This post will describe how to enable a right-click option on any content in the Monitoring tab of the admin console.