ToolTip: Bits Monitor

Sat, 14 May 2011 09:40:48 +0000

Bits Monitor is a small FREE utility that displays BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) activity.

Bits Monitor can be downloaded from here

BITSAdmin is deprecated in Windows 7 and 2008 R2

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:38:07 +0000

Just recently when I created a script using BITSAdmin, I noticed the following text when running the BITSAdmin executable: BITSADMIN is deprecated and is not guaranteed to be available in future versions of Windows. Administrative tools for the BITS service are now provided by BITS PowerShell cmdlets.

So BITS with PowerShell landed on my to-look-at list, but just today I came across Ashley McGlone’s Blog – Big Downloads With Powershell which contains a sample script for BITS downloads using PowerShell. With all respect to PowerShell, I do hope Microsoft is not considering replacing all the handy command line tools with PowerShell cmdlets :-)

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ToolTip: Bits Monitor

BITSAdmin is deprecated in Windows 7 and 2008 R2