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
Like everything in IIS 7, the implementation of BITS service is totally different than in IIS 6. To enable it, open the Management console and click on Features: Features Summary list will appears, click on Add Features link on the right: On the Add Features wizard select the following elements: Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) … Continue reading How to enable BITS in Windows 2008
Following with the BITS series, the next step, after to explain what BITS is and how we can implement it, is to explain how to enable it in our server. We will implement it on Windows 2003 on this post and on Windows 2008 on the next one. To enable BITS in your Windows 2003 … Continue reading How to enable BITS in Windows 2003
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)
Sometimes you need to know the number of connections from a server to other one to understand how both boxes are talking. I like to use WireShark tool to troubleshooting the network problems reported by servers managed by us, it is a very good tool with many of functionalities that could make your life more … Continue reading How to see connections in WireShark
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