
Released in mid-2007, BITS version 2.5 added support for IPv6 and custom HTTP headers, and better HTTP security.

With Windows Server 2003 Microsoft updates BITS Version 1.5 late 2003 and brought command-line support, more upload features, and security improvements.īITS Version 2.0, released in mid-2004 as an update for multiple OS deployments, added more download features, bandwidth throttling and support for Server Message Block (SMB). Than Version 1.2 arrived in mid-2002 to add the Automatic Updates service to Windows 2000. Next Microsoft Upgraded BITS version 1.0 in Windows XP in 2001. Microsoft first Introduced Background Intelligent Transfer Service on Windows 2000 Automatically resume file transfers after network disconnects and computer restarts.Preserve the responsiveness of other network applications.Asynchronously transfer files in the foreground or background.A download job downloads files to the client, an upload job uploads a file to the server, and an upload-reply job uploads a file to the server and receives a reply file from the server application.

There are three types of transfer jobs performed by the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS).

3.3 Start / Stop BITS using Command prompt.3.1 How To Start / Restart BITS service?.3 Determining the Version of BITS on a Computer.2 Background Intelligent Transfer Service.
