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Event ID 16396 — 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: 16396
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Bits-Client
Version: 7.0
Symbolic Name: EVT_FIREWALL_RULE_FAILED
Message: Error %3 occurred when BITS tried to change the state of firewall rule "%1" to %2. Restarting the BITS service may correct the problem.

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