How to solve "Cannot set the current Drizzle Role status for the DP" - ConfigMgr 2012 DP

Hey guys, Here i come with another issue i ran into when i was trying to setup a Remote DP in a Configmgr 2012 Hierarchy. It starte like this, i had to place a remote DP in one of the branch location in the customer environment. I initiated the DP installation through DP configuration wizard in sccm 2012 console.
But as always, it did not go through. I was not able to distribute any packages to that DP. when i just gone through the distmgr.log i found the below snippet of error messages. and this is the first tiem i'm gettign this error message.

   STATMSG: ID=2344 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER" SYS=PRIprdsccmappdb.Rexelusa.com SITE=PRI PID=5756 TID=7752 GMTDATE=Tue Mar 11 05:47:54.280 2014 ISTR0="["Display=\\sccmdp.test.local\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=PRI"]\\sccmdp.test.local\" ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=1 AID0=404 AVAL0="["Display=\\sccmdp.test.local\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=PRI"]\\sccmdp.test.local\" SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 3/11/2014 1:47:54 AM 7752 (0x1E48)
Cannot set the current Drizzle Role status for the DP. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 3/11/2014 1:47:54 AM 7752 (0x1E48)
Error occurred. Performing error cleanup prior to returning. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 3/11/2014 1:47:54 AM 7752 (0x1E48)
Cancelling network connection to \\sccmdp.test.local\ADMIN$. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 3/11/2014 1:47:54 AM 7752 (0x1E48)
DP thread with array index 0 ended. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 3/11/2014 1:47:54 AM 11504 (0x2CF0)
DP thread with thread handle 0000000000001B7C and thread ID 7752 ended. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 3/11/2014 1:47:54 AM 11504 (0x2CF0)
Only retrying local DP update for package PRI00003, no need to replicate package to child sites. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 3/11/2014 1:47:54 AM 11504 (0x2CF0)
StoredPkgVersion (1) of package PRI00003. StoredPkgVersion in database is 1. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 3/11/2014 1:47:54 AM 11504 (0x2CF0)
SourceVersion (1) of package PRI00003. SourceVersion in database is 1. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 3/11/2014 1:47:54 AM 11504 (0x2CF0)
STATMSG: ID=2302 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER" SYS=PRIprdsccmappdb.Rexelusa.com SITE=PRI PID=5756 TID=11504 GMTDATE=Tue Mar 11 05:47:54.856 2014 ISTR0="Configuration Manager Client Upgrade Package" ISTR1="PRI00003" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=1 AID0=400 AVAL0="PRI00003" SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 3/11/2014 1:47:54 AM 11504 (0x2CF0)
Failed to process package PRI00003 after 29 retries, will retry 71 more times SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 3/11/2014 1:47:54 AM 11504 (0x2CF0)
Exiting package processing thread. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 3/11/2014 1:47:54 AM 11504 (0x2CF0)
Failed to configure IIS virtual directories on the distribution point RHUPRDSCCMHQDP.REXELUSA.COM SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 3/11/2014 5:50:06 PM 11156 (0x2B94)

I ran into google with this message, all blogs and technet websites pointed me to troubleshoot IIS. But in that server IIS was working exceptionally well and i couldnt find any uissues with that. and it drived me crazy.

I tried to reinstall the DP role on that server several time and all my efforts went in vain. While i was going through the virtual directories of default website i found that the physical path updated on the virtual directory SMS_DP_SMSPKG$ refered to a folder in a drive where the drive letter doesn't even exist. i change the physical path of that virtual directory and started the installation again. Voila the DP is up and running again.

to summarize, Make sure the virtual directories SMS_DP_SMSPKG$ and SMS_DP_SMSSIG$ exists and the physical path of those virtual directories are referring to a valid drive and path.

Hope this helps.!!

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