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If you search on the web you can find many free tools that you can use to work with BITS. As we commented in other blog, BITS has an API in .NET that you can use to create web or form applications to work with BITS. I have downloaded and tested many of them and … Continue reading SharpBits.NET Tool
Following with the methods to work with BITS, if your machine is running Windows 7 or you are uploading/downloading files from a Windows 2008 Server, you can use PowerShell commands to work with BITS in the same that we have used the bitsadmin.exe tool. In this case, we will download an installer file stored in … Continue reading BITS + PowerShell: Get the power!
One of the ways to upload/download files to a BITS server is using its command line tool, bitsadmin. You have not confuse this command line with the PowerShell cmdlets that you can use in Windows 7 and 2008. Bitsadmin.exe tool is included by default in Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista and Windows 2003 … Continue reading BITS command-line
Searching for a method to download/upload files to our servers in a secure and cheaper manner (Secure FTP licenses are very expensive, especially when you have many users downloading/uploading files), we have “re-discovered” one of the more useful (and unknown) components of Windows, Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). BITS transfers files between a client and … Continue reading Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
A very nostalgic compilation of “historic documents” in Computer Science: http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/history.html http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ You can find manuals and articles about Fortran, Algol60, Pascal, Modula-2 and many other languages, and documents about flowcharting techniques, and machine and network architectures. Enjoy it! Continue reading For nostalgic people…
Angel Perez Palacios 