{"id":993,"date":"2008-07-07T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2008\/07\/07\/enable-bits-logging\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:29:59","slug":"enable-bits-logging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/enable-bits-logging\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable BITS Logging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 uses a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/heaths\/archive\/2008\/05\/12\/changes-for-microsoft-visual-studio-2008-service-pack-1.aspx\">new bootstrap application<\/a> that chains several packages together for a seamless installation experience. Because VS2008 SP1 contains a lot of fixes and new features, it is also quite large &#8211; almost 3 times as large as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/heaths\/archive\/tags\/VS+2005+SP1\/default.aspx\">VS2005 SP1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To download all this data, we use the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/bb968799.aspx\">Background Intelligent Transfer Service<\/a>, or <em>BITS<\/em>, first and foremost. To help diagnose failures with BITS that results in falling back to other download mechanisms which may also fail, please enable BITS logging using the script <em>StartBITSLogging.cmd<\/em> available from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/heaths\/pages\/bits-logging.aspx\">here<\/a> and attached to this post. This script enables logging to <em>%WINDIR%System32bits.log<\/em>. Be sure attach this file to any bug reports filed on <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\/Feedback\">Microsoft Connect for Visual Studio<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 uses a new bootstrap application that chains several packages together for a seamless installation experience. Because VS2008 SP1 contains a lot of fixes and new features, it is also quite large &#8211; almost 3 times as large as VS2005 SP1. To download all this data, we use the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,20,23,39,45,51],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diagnosing","tag-installation","tag-logging","tag-tip","tag-visual-studio","tag-vs2008sp1"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 uses a new bootstrap application that chains several packages together for a seamless installation experience. Because VS2008 SP1 contains a lot of fixes and new features, it is also quite large &#8211; almost 3 times as large as VS2005 SP1. To download all this data, we use the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}