Handling large downloads with JSS

gmce87
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Hi, we're trying to deploy High Sierra in our org and struggling. We have a Windows server with ISS enabled, and a HTTP file share set up on this server which is hosting the CasperShare DP. When we test with a couple of machines the High Sierra PKG deploys successfully, but when we scope the policy to all our machines, it seems like there's too much network utilisation for the machines to successfully download the PKG. Some machines complete, but the vast majority of them failed. Here's an example of one of the machines in the policy logs;

Executing Policy Deploy High Sierra Installer
Downloading Install macOS High Sierra.pkg...
Downloading http://fileservername/CasperShare/Packages/Install%20macOS%20High%20Sierra.pkg...
The network connection was interrupted while downloading the package from http://fileservername/CasperShare/Packages/Install%20macOS%20High%20Sierra.pkg. Attempting to reconnect...
The network connection was interrupted while downloading the package from http://fileservername/CasperShare/Packages/Install%20macOS%20High%20Sierra.pkg. Attempting to reconnect...

[repeats dozens of times]

The network connection was interrupted while downloading the package from http://fileservername/CasperShare/Packages/Install%20macOS%20High%20Sierra.pkg. Attempting to reconnect...
Downloading Install macOS High Sierra.pkg...
Resuming download of http://fileservername/CasperShare/Packages/Install%20macOS%20High%20Sierra.pkg...
Error: Could not connect to the HTTP server to download Install macOS High Sierra.pkg.

Does anyone else experience this? This same file server handles the majority of the installs we throw at it for regular apps like iTunes, Pages, ARD etc. Not sure where to go from here, right now we're just having to deploy to a couple computers at a time which is involving a lot of manual work adding machines into the scope policy and waiting for the machines to check in etc.

Thanks

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