bitsadmin peercaching and setconfigurationflags

• Applies to:

  ✅ Windows Server 2025, ✅ Windows Server 2022, ✅ Windows Server 2019, ✅ Windows Server 2016, ✅ Windows 11, ✅ Windows 10, ✅ Azure Local, versions 23H2 and 22H2

Sets the configuration flags that determine if the computer can serve content to peers and if it can download content from peers.

Syntax

bitsadmin /peercaching /setconfigurationflags <job> <value>

Parameters

Parameter	Description
job	The job's display name or GUID.
value	An unsigned integer with the following interpretation for the bits in the binary representation: To allow the job's data to be downloaded from a peer, set the least significant bit. To allow the job's data to be served to peers, set the second bit from the right.

Examples

To specify the job's data to be downloaded from peers for the job named myDownloadJob:

bitsadmin /peercaching /setconfigurationflags myDownloadJob 1

Related links

• Command-Line Syntax Key

• bitsadmin command

• bitsadmin peercaching command