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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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Start-BITSTransfer with network share as destination

I'm using Start-BITSTransfer to download a file from the internet and place it in a network location. The location is similar to \\computername\c$\folder which the cmdlet says it can't find and that it doesn't exist. To get Test-Path to pass…
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BitsTransfer (BITS) service and events / WMI

Older versions of MS Windows had BITS Service exposed on WMI in "root\Microsoft\BITS" namespace. However since MS Windows Server 2012 this namespace is gone. Is there any "new" way to control BITS using WMI ? I was not able to google or find any…
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How can I prioritize BITS protocol traffic as Bulk class without dragging interactive web applications down with it?

Windows Update (which uses the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) protocol) sometimes monopolizes our ADSL uplink. It interferes with interactive applications such as our "in the cloud" browser based accounting system. I want to lower…
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Is there a list of server error codes for IIS BITS Uploads or a definition for 0x80070585 ("Invalid Index")?

I've got IIS 8.5 running on a couple of servers with BITS uploads enabled on a virtual directory. Looking through the logs, I see several different sorts of errors where it says (bits_error:{GUID},500,0x80070070) or some other error code. I'm able…
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WSUS and windows update make clients PC very slow

At our office, there is a WSUS server that distributes windows updates to every client PC (Windows 7) between 1:00pm and 2:00pm. The problem is that he PCs become very slow during that time. Is there any way to accelerate this process? What should…
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BITS http download job fails to connect for owner Local SYSTEM account

A service I have written that uses BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) to auto update itself is having a problem on some machines (Windows 7 so far). I have been investigating and have discovered that some of the jobs that my service…
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SCCM 2012 - some remote clients unable to download some applications, 401.2 error

I've got a small SCCM 2012 deployment with about 35 clients attached. Most of these clients are in the same network as the single SCCM host, but three are about 1000 miles away. Oddly, these three clients have stopped being able to download some…
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media is write protected when using diskshadow.exe, start-bitstransfer powershell cmdlet

i am trying to use the powershell start-bitstransfer cmdlets to transfer a file i have exposed using a vss snapshot (via diskshadow), but unfortunately i am receiving the following error: Start-BitsTransfer : The media is write protected. At…
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How do I send about a million files asynchronously with Start-BitsTransfer in PowerShell 5.1?

I am attempting to transfer about a million files of various sizes from one server to another, and due to various size, network and time constraints, I'm attempting to use BITS in PowerShell to do the file transfer. I am not able to compress the…
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Is there "bitsadmin" for jobs that use Delivery Optimization?

Download jobs under the BITS service are easy to administer via bitsadmin. Is there ANY way how to remove Download jobs under the new DO (Delivery Optimization) service? Jobs can be listed by PS>GetDeliveryOptimizationStatus, but I found no way how…
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PowerShell script using Bits-Transfer does not work as Scheduled Task

I've tried utilizing other Q/A's such as Windows Server 2008 R2 PowerShell script runs manually, but not as a scheduled task but to no avail. Basically I've got a PoSh script (apparently that's the hot abbreviation for it nowadays) that copies a lot…
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How do you setup a virtual directory for background intelligent transfer service uploads on iis 8.5 on windows server 2012 R2?

Here is what I did: From server manager installed BITS IIS Server Extension From IIS manager created virtual directory under default website (using DefaultAppPool with ApplicationPoolIdentity) From IIS manager, went to handler mappings, then edit…
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Is it possible to use an Elastic Load Balancer on an IIS Server accepting BITS Uploads?

I have a website hosted on EC2 using IIS 8.5. I've got a virtual directory with BITS uploads enabled, and everything works over http and now https when my URL points to the instance's public EIP. The design calls for using an Elastic Load Balancer…
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GPO limited by system version (Windows Server 2012)?

Windows Server 2012 I want to enable this local GPO: Where it says "Supported on: Windows 7 or computers with BITS 3.5 installed" got me confused, because Windows Server 2012 has BITS 7.6 installed. Is this GPO going to have any effect? I enabled…
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Background intelligent transfer with IIS server

I need help with setting my IIS server for BITS upload. i want to upload and download files from the virtual directory i have assigned to one of my websites. but i m not able to upload and download files using BITS. i m not getting basic setting.…
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