Re: BITS and SMS

cierdwyn2@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Ok, I may look completely incompetent here, but I've a general lack of
pride,a nd a burning need to know this answer, so...

we've been using SMS 2003 for program distribution for several months
now. However, we are about to deploy 2 different new pieces of
software that will need to go on every pc in our 350 pc environment
over a 2 week period.

As I understand it, you can set the advertisement for a specific
date(let's say, a week from now) and specify a collection. Between now
and then, BITS should download the package from the DP to the clinet
machine, then run the package from the client cache at the specified
time. I've set the advertisement to download the package for the
install, but every time I test this in my test group, nothing happens
until the target time for the advertisement, then the 6 target pc's
all try to download the packagae, causing the choke I'mtrying to
eliminate. The clinets are all configured with a 2.5 Gig Cache, BITS
is enabled on the DP and the workstations have plenty of free space
for a test packagae that is 216 Meg.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

Clients should indeed start downloading at "advertisement start time" top of the scheduling page.
And start installing at the mandatory schedule in the middle of the scheduling page.
Are both times set for different time periods?

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