System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Unleashed

ConfigMgr and BranchCache

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager leverages the BranchCache functionality provided by the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems (and later with SP 1 installed). BranchCache is also available on Vista and Windows Server 2008 with BITS 4.0 installed. BranchCache provides caching of content from remote servers at a local site, so each client at the site does not have to transfer the content across a WAN link. BranchCache supports two modes: Hosted Cache mode and Distributed Cache mode. BranchCache also supports both the SMB or HTTP protocol suites. ConfigMgr 2012 uses the Distributed Cache mode only for HTTP transfers using the BITS protocol. The following discussion therefore pertains to BranchCache ...