September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1680 pages
88h 3m
English
The Automatic Updates client was developed to automate the installation of security fixes and patches and to give users the option to automatically “drizzle” patches across the Internet to the local computer for installation. Drizzling, also known as Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), is a process in which a computer intelligently utilizes unused network bandwidth to download files to the machine. Because only unused bandwidth is used, there is no perceived effect on the network client itself.
All currently supported versions of Microsoft clients include the Automatic Updates client built in to the OS.
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