Any benefit to rolling out BITS 2.5 client for WSUS environment? "Eric Young" <youngec[ at ]hotmail.com> 6/26/2007 8:49:05 PM I see that the downloads for BITS 2.5 client have been posted on the Microsoft Downloads page. Is there any benefit to installing/using BITS 2.5 client for a WSUS environment? -Eric

Re: Any benefit to rolling out BITS 2.5 client for WSUS environment? "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)" <onsitech[ at ]community.nospam> 6/27/2007 1:51:12 AM "Eric Young" <youngec[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message news:enHfwNDuHHA.4412[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I see that the downloads for BITS 2.5 client have been posted on the >Microsoft Downloads page. Is there any benefit to installing/using BITS >2.5 client for a WSUS environment? If there is, I'd expect it'll come down through WSUS as a "WSUS Required" update. But, I'm not aware of any specific benefits that accrue to WSUS, particularly. I will do some research on this, though. This is the first I've heard there was a version update to BITS, generally available. -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP Independent WSUS Evangelist MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E Everything you need for WSUS is at http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx And, almost everything else is at http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com .....

Re: Any benefit to rolling out BITS 2.5 client for WSUS environment? "max" <max[ at ]harrowden.beds.sch.uk> 6/29/2007 10:23:36 AM KB article... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923845 extract: New features and improvements in BITS 2.5 BITS 2.5 transfers files between a client and a server. BITS 2.5 also returns to the client progress information about file upload operations and about file download operations. BITS 2.5 provides the following features in addition to the BITS 2.0 feature set: . Support for custom HTTP headers. . Support for certificate-based client authentication to help secure HTTP transports. . Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). . Improved upload performance.

Re: Any benefit to rolling out BITS 2.5 client for WSUS environment? "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)" <onsitech[ at ]community.nospam> 6/30/2007 12:26:48 AM "max" <max[ at ]harrowden.beds.sch.uk> wrote in message news:ewiXadjuHHA.3544[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > KB article... > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923845 > extract: > New features and improvements in BITS 2.5 > BITS 2.5 transfers files between a client and a server. BITS 2.5 also > returns to the client progress information about file upload operations > and > about file download operations. I doubt this is of much significance, since the WUA was, most likely, still written to the (released) BITS 2.0 API. BITS 2.5 provides the following features in > addition to the BITS 2.0 feature set: . Support for custom HTTP headers. > . Support for certificate-based client authentication to help secure > HTTP transports. > . Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). > . Improved upload performance. None of these, methinks, really have any immediate significance to WSUS or the WUA. They'd all require the product be written to support those features, and since the release of BITS 2.5 post-dates the feature cutoff date of WSUS 3.0 by several weeks, I'm highly skeptical that the 3.0 release takes advantage of any of these features. It's possible, though, that an updated WUA may be in the wings to make use of BITS 2.5 -- I'll see what I may find out, since I currently have the ears of the WUA developers working another issue for me. -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP Independent WSUS Evangelist MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E Everything you need for WSUS is at http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx And, almost everything else is at http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com .....