Bitsadmin was first in the XPSP1 support tools updates IIRC. Currently it's in at least the 2K3 Support tools and built-in on vista.
I'm no IIS person but I believe that the bits extensions are there to support uploads, bits was download only in v1, in 1.5 they introduced upload capability which required IIS with the extensions. That's from memory as I haven't really fussed with bits since the SUS days....except on my home machine to estimate how long or how much stuff I was getting from Windows/Microsoft update. From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 8:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BITS revisited I'm not having problems with WSUS, I'm having problems determining if the clients are hogging up a T1 line with updates due to BITS not throttling correctly. I was unable to find BITSADMIN.EXE on my WSUS server, and then I discover BITS server extensions aren't installed for IIS...I'm assuming w/out that installed BITS can't work, or is that just for IIS specific stuff? The WSUS server is running the BITS service....or is that just the client side? Confused, Dave From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BITS revisited WindowsUpdate.log file should probably be the first point of call for checking issues with WSUS bitsadmin.exe /list /allusers would tell you current jobs and status I'd enable logging on the client if going down that route. Cheers Ken ________________________________ From: David Lum [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 8 May 2009 6:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BITS revisited Oh! Who knew! LOL. Would I do this on the WSUS server, or an each client? Would these steps apply as far as WSUS is concerned? http://www.it-jedi.net/2006/01/enabling-bits-logging-for-web-site.html Dave From: Rod Trent [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BITS revisited Enable logging? From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 3:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BITS revisited Does anyone know of a method to test if BOTS is actually working between point A and point B? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
