Perhaps Microsoft had decided that IE download manager is good enough? When you hit the download button, FTM would automatically pop up and take care of it. Before, MSDN downloads were handled by a small program called File Transfer Manager (FTM). So I guess my options were only either relying on the Lady Luck, or get a download manager program that can handle automatic download retry/resume.Īllow me to sidetrack a little bit. I could redownload for the third time, but I would get the same result without a reliable download method. Looks like the download got interrupted, and there’s no way for me to resume the download. Oh well… I concluded that it must be MSDN who were having problem. I also tried different computers with different operating systems and different browsers, and all of them had the same result. Our backup line was working perfectly fine during the download duration. Except that it’s not I still got incomplete files! All was well and several hours later the download window said it’s done. Not wanting to spend that day’s energy wasted for nothing, I connected to our backup network and restarted the download. But hey! I supposed to get several gigabytes total, but the files were only several megabytes! Drat–was it network problem? Or MSDN site had a problem? The next day I came to work, the downloaded files were sitting nicely and ready to be burned to DVDs (they are ISO image files).
By morning time it should be ready, and we can start the installation.
In order to limit the impact on our network/bandwidth, I started the download during night time, where our network usage and workforce is low. So anyway, while R&D was setting up the machine, I was in charge in downloading the software via our MSDN subscription. Read on if you are also having problem with your downloads and are looking for a solution.
Unfortunately the project is confidential so I can’t disclose it’s nature But at least I can share with you readers and fellow IT professionals about my experience with downloading-and redownloading for soooo many times-stuff from MSDN, and also the discovery of a free program that allowed me to resume/retry interrupted downloads. And this project will save us time and money when it’s live. A pretty big one, which requires a couple of new servers running Windows 2008 R2 64-bit and SQL Server 2008 R2, with IIS (Internet Information Services) running and hosting local websites. We are having a big project in my company.
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