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Event ID 74 — Configuration

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Applies To: Windows Server 2008

In order for a BITS peer caching server to serve cached content to BITS clients, the server must be able to listen for requests from clients and accept the requests.

Event Details

Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 74
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Bits-Client
Version: 7.0
Symbolic Name: EVT_SERVER_SEARCH_REQUEST_HTTP_STATUS
Message: BITS rejected the client's request with HTTP status %1.

Resolve

Restart the BITS service

To resolve this issue, stop and then restart the BITS service.

To perform this procedure, you must have membership in the local Administrators group, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.

To stop and restart the BITS service:

  1. Open an elevated command prompt. To open an elevated command prompt, click Start, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
  2. Type sc stop bits, and then press ENTER.
  3. Type sc start bits, and then press ENTER.

Verify

To ensure that the peercaching server is enabled:

  • From a command prompt running as an administrator, type:

    bitsadmin /PEERCACHING /GETCONFIGURATIONFLAGS

  • Ensure that the output includes:

    Enable serving to peers: true

Configuration

BITS Infrastructure