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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bits has some advantages, Namely you can throttle it using a GPO<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Be warned it has a number of disadvantages, no COM interface, it self throttles 2 seconds after it detects other traffic which can be annoying<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This nearly worked…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I had to deploy to about 80 laptops on intermittent connections<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The idea was to have 2 kinds of package…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>PACKAGE: Deploy_acrobat runs once and triggers BITS. Detects if a zip file exists at the end<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>PACKAGE: Install_Acrobat depends on Deploy_acrobat, has 2 commands… unpacks the zip and runs to contained setup.bat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A single Samba share was setup with all the packages (<a href="file:///\\apps\packages">\\apps\packages</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This is used to list the contents<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Apache ran with virtualhost pointing to the same directory<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>BITS transfers files using http<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bitsadmin.exe was used as you cannot script BITS unless you use powershell (which machines didn’t have)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Each directory was compressed using 7zip into 2mb split archives (bitsadmin doesn’t allow partial transfers) and put into a directory \deploy\<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Names of folders, packages etc are kept uniform<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Below is the wrapper for the BITSadmin. It uses 2 tools bitsadmin.exe and psexec.exe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Note is a proof of concept and doesn’t handle multiple downloads<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><code><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>if [%1] == [] (<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> echo "Usage: bitsadmin.bat PACKAGENAME"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> exit /B<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> ) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>SET PACKAGE=%1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>:: Remember CASE SENSITIVE!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>:: \deploy folder should contain 7z files to be extracted<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>:: get bitsadmin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>if NOT EXIST %WINDIR%\system32\bitsadmin.exe copy /y \\apps\system\tools\bitsadmin.exe %WINDIR%\system32\<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>if NOT EXIST %WINDIR%\system32\psexec.exe copy /y \\apps\system\tools\psexec.exe %WINDIR%\system32\<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>:: runs bitsadmin as system account<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>SET BITSCOMMAND=psexec -i -s %WINDIR%\system32\bitsadmin.exe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>SET URL=http://apps.site.com/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>:: Deals with BITS In Progress by exiting<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>for /F %%I in ('c:\windows\system32\bitsadmin.exe /getcompletiontime %package%') do (<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> if /I %%I==WORKING ( <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> exit /B<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>:: Cancel anything outstanding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>for /F "tokens=1,2,3" %%I in ('c:\windows\system32\bitsadmin.exe /rawreturn /list /allusers') do ( <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> c:\windows\system32\bitsadmin.exe /rawreturn /cancel %%I <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>:: Add the job<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>for /F %%I in ('c:\windows\system32\bitsadmin.exe /RAWRETURN /CREATE /DOWNLOAD %PACKAGE%') do set GUID=%%I<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>:: Take ownership (as system)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>%BITSCOMMAND% /TAKEOWNERSHIP %GUID%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>:: Add all the files for this package from the SMB folder of the same name<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>for /F %%I in ('dir /b \\apps\packages\%package%\deploy\') do %BITSCOMMAND% /RAWRETURN /ADDFILE %GUID% %url%/%package%/deploy/%%I %windir%\temp\%package%\%%I<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>:: when complete run complete command<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>%BITSCOMMAND% /RAWRETURN /SETNOTIFYCMDLINE %GUID% "%BITSCOMMAND%" "c:\windows\system32\bitsadmin.exe /RAWRETURN /COMPLETE %GUID%"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>%BITSCOMMAND% /SETPROXYSETTINGS %GUID% PRECONFIG<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>:: START<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>%BITSCOMMAND% /RESUME %GUID%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'></code><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>At the end of the day I realised that the complexity of getting bits to run wasn’t really worth the effort. I could achieve the same results with a single package <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Transferring the data using ROBOCOPY (aka poor mans rsync)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Unzipping the contents<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Running setup.bat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I dynamically set the IPG (interpacket gap) for robocopy using this neat js for gateway detection<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><code js><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>var tsv =/^10\.10\.[0-7]\./i;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>var mky =/^10\.10\.14\./i;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>var rok =/^10\.10\.13\./i;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>var cns =/^10\.10\.12\./i;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>var cba =/^10\.10\.11\./i;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>var nextg =/^10\.10\.10\./i;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>var gap = 0;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>// Sets IPG for robocopy to use based on location<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>// set IPG to 'exit' if not required<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>var IPG = getIPAddresses();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>WScript.Echo(IPG);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>function getIPAddresses() {<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> var wmi = GetObject("winmgmts:!\\\\.\\root\\cimv2");;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> var nic = wmi.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration Where IPEnabled = True");<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> var e= new Enumerator(nic);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> for (; !e.atEnd(); e.moveNext()) {<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> var x = e.item().ipAddress(0);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> if ( nextg.test(x)) {gap = 1000;}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> if ( tsv.test(x)) {gap = 0; break;}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> if ( mky.test(x)) {gap = 200; break;}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> if ( rok.test(x)) {gap = 200; break;}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> if ( cns.test(x)) {gap = 200; break;}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> if ( cba.test(x)) {gap = 500; break;}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> }<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> return(gap);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'></code><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The other alternative would be DFS-R (server 2003 R2 and up)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2006/06/14/434190.aspx">http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2006/06/14/434190.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Michael Chinn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>PC Support Office<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Information and Communications Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>2-68 Flinders Street<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>PO Box 1379<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Townsville Qld 4810<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Ph: 07 4750 0855<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Fax: 07 4772 6093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>email: michael.chinn@gbrmpa.gov.au<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Visit us at: http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>=============================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>If you have received this transmission in error please notify us immediately<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>by return email and delete all copies. Any unauthorised use, disclosure or<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>distribution of this email is prohibited.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>=============================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> wpkg-users-bounces@lists.wpkg.org [mailto:wpkg-users-bounces@lists.wpkg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sean Kennedy<br><b>Sent:</b> 29 December 2010 14:25<br><b>To:</b> wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [wpkg-users] Using BITS to transfer files?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I'm just wondering if anyone has ever taken a look at using BITS to transfer files to the client? Having recently started a new job where I have 250+ sites that I would love to use WPKG on, I have run up against a bandwidth problem; the sites are all 128k or lower bandwidth. I got around this problem with windows updates by utilizing BITS ( built in to windows since...2000? I think ), and it got me thinking that it would be awesome if wpkg could use the built in BITS functionality as well. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Is this one of those things that was looked at but decided against? How else has everyone solved the bandwidth problem?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>