The Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is a component of Microsoft Windows XP and later operating systems that facilitates prioritized, throttled, and asynchronous transfer of files between machines using idle network bandwidth.
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Configure not to require the Range Header?
I am trying to get my WSUS server to download patches through a proxy.
The proxy screws up the http header. BITS requires the range header.
Is there a way to get BITS not to require the range header? I don't have access to the proxies, but I need…
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How to enable BITS Peercaching?
Beyond the obvious of setting the GPO to "enabled".
bitsadmin /peercaching /getconfigurationflags
Peercaching configuration flags:
Enable download from peers :false
Enable serving to peers :false
Thanks!
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Windows Update Servers returning Content-Length: 0 for certain networks
Would anyone know why a Windows Update server (ie: download.windowsupdate.com) would give what looks like a bogus reply on certain networks? Taking the example of a patch for MSE I get the following header using a 4G mobile network (Vodafone). I've…
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Does Windows Server backup use BITS?
I've been told that Windows Server 2008 and newer uses the BITS service to transfer files that are backed up to a UNC share (using Windows server backup/NTbackup) but I can't find any documentation to support this. Is this true? If so, is it the…
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