Do not allow the computer to act as a BITS Peercaching client

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

This policy setting specifies whether the computer will act as a BITS peer caching client. By default, when BITS peer caching is enabled, the computer acts as both a peer caching server (offering files to its peers) and a peer caching client (downloading files from its peers). If you enable this policy setting, the computer will no longer use the BITS peer caching feature to download files; files will be downloaded only from the origin server. However, the computer will still make files available to its peers. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the computer attempts to download peer-enabled BITS jobs from peer computers before reverting to the origin server. Note: This policy setting has no effect if the "Allow BITS peer caching" policy setting is disabled or not configured.

This policy has no additional user input fields.

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  Allow BITS Peercaching

  At least Windows Vista
• Computer
  Do not allow the BITS client to use Windows Branch Cache

  Windows 7 or computers with BITS 3.5 installed.
• Computer
  Do not allow the computer to act as a BITS Peercaching server

  At least Windows Vista
• Computer
  Limit the age of files in the BITS Peercache

  At least Windows Vista
• Computer
  Limit the BITS Peercache size

  At least Windows Vista
• Computer
  Limit the maximum BITS job download time

  At least Windows Vista
• Computer
  Limit the maximum network bandwidth for BITS background transfers

  Windows XP SP2 or Windows Server 2003 SP1, or computers with BITS 2.0 installed.