Comparative Advantages of Group Policy and ConfigMgr Settings for BITS

Unlike group policy settings, the settings on the Computer Client agent apply to clients that are in workgroups or untrusted domains. In ConfigMgr 2007, these were global settings for all clients in the site; however, System Center 2012 Configuration Manager allows you to apply specific client settings based on collection membership. Through ConfigMgr, you can also assign BITS settings specifically to BranchCache-enabled distribution points. Group policy allows you to control the behavior of BITS for clients in specific domains, OUs, individual computers, or AD sites. You can achieve even more granular control of group policy by WMI filtering and/or security group filtering. ...

Get System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Unleashed now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.