Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
BranchCache File Access
New to Windows Server 2008 R2 and further expanded in Windows Server 2012 is a role called BranchCache. BranchCache is a technology that provides users with better access to files across a WAN. Normally, if one user accesses a file, the file is transferred across the WAN for the user, and then when another user accesses the same file, the same file is again transferred across the WAN for the other user. BranchCache acknowledges that a file has been transferred across the WAN by a previous user, and instead of retrieving the file across the WAN, the file is accessed locally by the subsequent user.
BranchCache requires Windows 7 or Windows 8 on the client side and can be set up so that the file is effectively retrieved in ...
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