Get the skinny on the benefits and drawbacks of BrancheCache and DirectAccess, arguably the crown jewels of the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 releases. Also included: a guide to implementing ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

The BranchCache feature in Server 2008 R2 is a large-scale “macro” application of the caching concept. The idea is that a branch office, separated from corporate HQ by slow and/or intermittent WAN ...

You’ll need to set up the cache host server with a certificate, because the clients use TLS when talking to the caching server. Import the certificate with the Certificates MMC snap-in, and associate ...

We've got our main SCCM server here in HQ and a DP in every office where we push images down to. That all works fine. What we want to be able to do is have the windows updates work the same way, where ...

Turn on BranchCache Set BranchCache Distributed Cache mode Set BranchCache Hosted Cache mode Configure BranchCache for network files Set percentage of disk space used for client computer cache Answer ...

BranchCache BranchCache improves the branch office experience by caching commonly used files locally, either on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server or user workstations, rather than forcing users to ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...