{"id":4551,"date":"2009-01-23T08:56:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T08:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2009\/01\/23\/a-bit-more-on-bits\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:12:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:12:50","slug":"a-bit-more-on-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/a-bit-more-on-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit More On BITS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in a meeting yesterday talking about BITS and what an awesome service it was.&#160; I described what it did and how it allowed people to avoid a wide range of low-class, pain in the butt problems.&#160; The question then became, &quot;why isn&#8217;t everyone using it?&quot;&#160; That&#8217;s a darn good question.&#160; The answer is that we have not educated people about it.&#160; I aim to fix that.&#160; I wrote an earlier blog on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/powershell\/archive\/2009\/01\/11\/transferring-large-files-using-bits.aspx\">BITS<\/a> HERE.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Alex Ng has just written a nice blog about it <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gotdotnet.com\/wmi\/archive\/2009\/01\/23\/introducing-bits-powershell-cmdlets.aspx\">HERE<\/a>.&#160; Check it out, try it out, tell a friend (and consider the internet a friend).<\/p>\n<p>Experiment! Enjoy! Engage! <\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]   <br \/>Windows Management Partner Architect    <br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:&#160;&#160;&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>    <br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in a meeting yesterday talking about BITS and what an awesome service it was.&#160; I described what it did and how it allowed people to avoid a wide range of low-class, pain in the butt problems.&#160; The question then became, &quot;why isn&#8217;t everyone using it?&quot;&#160; That&#8217;s a darn good question.&#160; The answer is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I was in a meeting yesterday talking about BITS and what an awesome service it was.&#160; I described what it did and how it allowed people to avoid a wide range of low-class, pain in the butt problems.&#160; The question then became, &quot;why isn&#8217;t everyone using it?&quot;&#160; That&#8217;s a darn good question.&#160; The answer is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}