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  • Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:53 PMDubl D Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi.
     
    My WSUS server is taking forever to download all files necessary for updates to install correctly. Will this cause my clients to not see that there are updates ready to be installed? If so, how can I speed up the download process?
     

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  • Sunday, August 03, 2008 8:11 AMSudheer GN Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Hi,
    Yes. Until the files are downloaded on WSUS server, the updates will not be available to clients.
    By default, WSUS uses BITS service to download the files in background without impacting the network usage of other applications on the machine. Hence the downloads can be slow depending on the usage of network.
    If you wish to speed up the downloads, you can let WSUS use all the available bandwidth for downloads by setting a confiugration option in the database - BitsDownloadPriorityForeground to 1.
    Please see the article 
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922330
    for more information about the commands to set the option.

    Thanks
    Sudheer GN [MSFT]

     

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  • Sunday, August 03, 2008 8:11 AMSudheer GN Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Hi,
    Yes. Until the files are downloaded on WSUS server, the updates will not be available to clients.
    By default, WSUS uses BITS service to download the files in background without impacting the network usage of other applications on the machine. Hence the downloads can be slow depending on the usage of network.
    If you wish to speed up the downloads, you can let WSUS use all the available bandwidth for downloads by setting a confiugration option in the database - BitsDownloadPriorityForeground to 1.
    Please see the article 
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922330
    for more information about the commands to set the option.

    Thanks
    Sudheer GN [MSFT]