I was checking with a fellow sysadmin and debating whether it was better to bundle a large install, say Adobe CS5, into a single self extracting installer or leave it as a bunch of smaller files when distributing with SCCM.
My argument for bundling it into a single binary was to reduce file transfer overhead for each file where as he pointed out that a large file can be interrupted and will have to restart the entire download.
The question here becomes does SCCM handle partial downloads with BITS so that they can be interrupted or does it need to start at the beginning and does it transfer files as individual files or does it just transfer a bit stream transparently?
