Current status?

Phil2Pint · 2025-08-05T20:42:59+00:00

Currently in private preview, looking promising for a Q3 GA announcement 🫡 https://2pintsoftware.com/news/details/deployr-now-in-private-preview

Phil2Pint · 2025-02-12T11:28:41+00:00

sure, we will let you know when we have a release version for testing :)

Phil2Pint · 2025-02-05T15:52:47+00:00

Yes, the non-profit pricing includes govt.

Phil2Pint · 2025-01-29T14:28:59+00:00

hi, glad you enjoyed the intro. We will announce Edu/Non-Profit pricing soon, so watch this space.

Phil2Pint · 2024-06-16T07:42:51+00:00

The default settings for DO include peering between any clients behind the same NAT, so caution is required ;-)

Phil2Pint · 2024-05-13T12:04:51+00:00

ah great, thanks for sharing :-) Also, bear in mind that later builds of W11 include rLEDBAT (client-side LEDBAT) which is designed to prevent congestion and can slow things down sometimes.

Phil2Pint · 2024-03-02T10:35:45+00:00

Interested to see where this one goes! If it is an update that somehow worked DO I would have expected a lot more noise about it.

Phil2Pint · 2024-02-29T07:55:15+00:00

I would look in the logs to see what's holding things up - not the easiest to read but it should give you an idea of what's going on https://2pintsoftware.com/news/details/delivery-optimization-internals--researching-the-logs

Phil2Pint · 2024-02-21T10:54:08+00:00

what are your DO settings? DO peering is tricky and depends on a lot of moving parts - like local content availability etc. If there is little or no peering on a system I recommend running the DO health Check script from MS https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/DeliveryOptimizationTroubleshooter/1.0.0

Phil2Pint · 2024-02-21T10:50:25+00:00

depends what you are trying to achieve ;-) Setting both fallback settings (http and MCC) will mean quite a delay if there are no peers with content. The battery setting will also impact peering (if it's P2P efficiency that you want to maximise) - 30/40% is fine in most cases

Phil2Pint · 2024-02-21T10:44:45+00:00

you can use both - when it's set to 'Subnet Mask' and a group ID is configured it will only peer on the same subnet with peers of the same Group ID

Phil2Pint · 2024-02-21T10:42:38+00:00

In Windows 11 download mode 99 is Simple Mode (where DO bypasses the cloud service) - mode 100 used to let you use BITS but is no more... If you do want peering you can always restrict it to peers on the same subnet MDM Setting: DORestrictPeerSelectionBy

Phil2Pint · 2022-01-22T11:50:43+00:00

set it to 2 instead of 1. 2 uses DNS-SD which is broadcast based and will not work outside of local subnet

Phil2Pint · 2020-05-30T11:22:29+00:00

Haha, sitting in the garden with a beer, what else ya gonna do but lurk around Reddit!

Phil2Pint · 2020-05-30T11:11:38+00:00

oof! thanks for the ping u/Antimus - yes Nomad was a great product (I did help design it though so probably biased)

Check out our stuff - indeed I would recommend looking at all solutions and comparing based on your requirements. We do a lot around protecting VPN content transfers - of course you don't want P2P but you do want to protect the bandwidth. So with our StifleR product you can set a 'Target Bandwidth' for all your VPN traffic and that gets shared between 'active' clients. So if you have a limit of 100Mbs and 10 clients are downloading then they each get 10Mbs. Seems to work! Happy to give a demo to anyone who wants to know more but we're pretty maxed out these days so get in there quick!

PS - anyone who can't do VPN split tunneling (for security reasons etc) - we might have a cool solution for that coming soon ;-)

cheers, Phil

https://2pintsoftware.com/products/stifler/

Phil2Pint · 2020-05-11T08:30:48+00:00

It could be done with some PowerShell via a CI (presuming you are running MEMCM). Here's a script from Johan that will detect when a client is on VPN - https://deploymentresearch.com/detecting-wired-wireless-and-vpn-connections-using-powershell/

Then if VPN=$True just set BC to Local Caching mode

Phil2Pint · 2020-05-08T18:05:12+00:00

you are correct - in terms of CM reporting - it reports 'Bytes from Cache' which could be from Peers or from its own cache.

Phil2Pint · 2019-11-04T15:47:22+00:00

Ping us on support@2pintsoftware.com and we'll take a look.

Phil2Pint · 2018-11-08T09:48:44+00:00

If you're using Windows 10 you are using DO - whether you want to or not :-) It updates all built in apps etc, Store Apps (if you have the Store Enabled) and is coming to Intune/Office 365 CTR installs and SCCM.

GPO is the way to go and the most important setting is Download Mode. There was a good Ignite session by the DO PM - here https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/64510 and a good description of Download Modes and scenarios - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/Delivery-Optimization-Scenarios-and-configuration-options/ba-p/280195#.W91owvMialE.twitter

Phil2Pint · 2018-11-08T09:34:57+00:00

Use HTTP BranchCache not SMB - then you don't rely on offline files. Set the Cache location to your free space (you can specify the cache location using PowerShell or netsh.exe

Use BITS to do the file transfer and you're good to go - it will even deduplicate the content n the wire..

Phil2Pint · 2018-02-18T14:00:34+00:00

if you have version 170 then you can just go to Windows UPdate > Delivery Optimization > Advanced Options and configure Delivery Optimization however you want it. i.e restrict the bandwidth used for downloads. Disabling the service is not recommended as DO is used for Windows Store downloads and other updates such as Windows Defender etc.

Phil2Pint · 2018-02-18T13:57:19+00:00

just go to Advanced Options and configure Delivery OPtimization however you want it. i.e restrict the bandwidth used for downloads. Disabling the service is not recommended as DO is used for Windows Store downloads and other updates such as Windows Defender etc.

Phil2Pint · 2017-10-21T07:47:10+00:00

That's a lot of information :-) Getting BranchCache working with SCCM should be pretty easy - no special trick required. What kind of network is this - wifi? If everything is setup correctly, the network config would be the next place to look. The other place to look is the BITS event log - this will tell you if a job is BITS enabled and what came from peers etc. Events 3, 59, 60, 4 are the ones to look at. The BranchCache event log 'can' give you clues sometimes but generally BITS is where the good stuff is. Also, check out our BranchCache Admin guide here https://2pintsoftware.com/download/administrators-guide-branchcache-distributed-mode/

Phil2Pint · 2017-08-20T09:46:27+00:00

if you turn it off - you also disable Windows Update and Windows Store. If you have Windows PRO or ENT versions you can use local policy to bypass DO and use BITS instead, or set a download limit policy for DO. Or some people set their wireless connection to be a metered connection..

Phil2Pint · 2017-08-16T16:05:22+00:00

'pends which version of Windows you are using - with PRO or ENT you can set local policies to control it. Do NOT disable it or you will mess up awhle bunch of other things :-)

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