Policy

Timeout for inactive BITS jobs

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassComputer
CategoryNetwork > Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
Supported onWindows XP or Windows Server 2003, or computers with BITS 1.5 installed.

Supported OS tags: WindowsServer2003, WindowsXP

This policy setting specifies the number of days a pending BITS job can remain inactive before the job is considered abandoned. By default BITS will wait 90 days before considering an inactive job abandoned. After a job is determined to be abandoned, the job is deleted from BITS and any downloaded files for the job are deleted from the disk. Note: Any property changes to the job or any successful download action will reset this timeout. Consider increasing the timeout value if computers tend to stay offline for a long period of time and still have pending jobs. Consider decreasing this value if you are concerned about orphaned jobs occupying disk space. If you enable this policy setting, you can configure the inactive job timeout to specified number of days. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the default value of 90 (days) will be used for the inactive job timeout.

Internal name
BITS_Job_Timeout
Policy ID
6b18b229c67e
Elements
1

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

ElementTypeRegistry mappingConstraints & behavior
Inactive Job Timeout in Days:
ID BITS_Job_Timeout_Time
decimal
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\JobInactivityTimeout
Type REG_DWORD
Range: 1 to 999

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