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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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How to force BITS to download WSUS updates in foreground in Win Server 2012?

As you know, WSUS use BITS for downloading its updates. Unfortunately BITS downloads these updates in background and use remained bandwidth of server. This is not desirable in my situation that want to get all update rapidly. I want to force BITS to…
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Canceling WSUS download process

I recently deployed a WSUS role to a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine. Test operation was successful and it downloaded and distributed a modest selection of updates. Today, I added a few products to my selection. Then, I clicked the synchronize…
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BITS Compact Server, can this be installed on Windows 10 Pro?

I'm trying to use Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter to connect to an old laptop and create a VM from it, but it needs BITS compact server installed and I can only find how to install this on windows server platforms, not Windows 10. Is this…
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BITS policies to limit bandwitdth usage is not taking effect

We have a fleet of roughly 1300 Windows 7 SP1 clients who use a centralized WSUS server to download updates from. We've implemented the following BITS policy to limit the bandwidth during working hours: For some reason this does not go into effect…
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Outlook/BITS client can't download the OAB, returns HTTP 401

We're having difficulties with Outlook clients running in cached mode. They get stuck forever on "Offline Address Book is connecting to Microsoft Exchange". The two Exchange servers in question are load-balanced by a KEMP cluster, with HTTPS…
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WSUS can't download anything, unclear why

I've got 2 WSUS servers: An old W2K3, WSUS 3.0SP2 box and a brand new 2012 server with the WSUS role enabled. The old machine works fine and pulls the updates from MS via the company proxy. (With BITS set to the default background mode.) The new…
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SQL & BITS Errors on prereq for SCCM 2012

Hey anyone that can help, I've been stumped by this problem for a while now and I've no idea what to do. I've installed SQL 2008 to run with SCCM '12. I've set Log On As a domain account with administrator privileges. I've set SQL browser to run as…
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Installing SCCM Client 2012 failed: "CcmSetup failed with error code 0x80004002"

We're using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012. And I have issues installing the SCCM Client on a Windows XP Prof SP3 PC. The Log on the XP machine says: Failed to query BITS 2.5 interface with error 0x80004002 ccmsetup …
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System Account Access Token missing groups

I'm experiencing a weird phenomena regarding Windows SYSTEM Account. Looking at these three different ways to start a process as SYSTEM: Sysinternals PSExec Task Scheduler GPO Startup Script. Processes started with these methods result in…
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Group Policy - BITS not applying on Windows10

We are upgrading our PCs to Windows 10 and are running into a few problems with updates. OUR SETUP: We have 2 sites based in the UK (Norwich & Preston) and we have a WSUS server in our Norwich site. Once we approve updates, the wsus server downloads…
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BITS service will not start on Windows 8.1

The BITS service will not start on my machine (Windows 8, 64-bit), (preventing Windows Updates from being downloaded): C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc start bits SERVICE_NAME: bits TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS STATE …
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Start-BitsTransfer Works when triggered manually from powershell but not using a windows service

I'm using BITS to transfer file from one windows 2008 R2 server to the other. When I run the command manually from powershell or regular command line it works perfectly. Now when I use the same command as part of a build script in Jenkins it fails…
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Setting up a BITS server for upload only

Often we need to have clients send large backup sets to us. We currently use ftp, however we run in to the issue of the ftp client being closed on the client's computer before the the transfer is completed. We would like to use the Background…
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SCVMM P2V conversion slow

I am trying to run some P2V conversions using SCVMM 2012 Release Candidate. The source machines are Windows Server 2008 SP2 hosts in a local network. The destination is a Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1. Unfortunately, the conversion is rather slow - I get…
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How to properly run Powershell scripts containing BITS operations from Task Scheduler?

I am trying to perform an automatic backup of some files and folders based on a configuration. This is done using Powershell 5 which in turn relies on Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). E.g.: Start-BitsTransfer $Source\* $Destination…
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