Hi

I have set up a 2012 R2 hosted Branchcache and all looks good on my servers and clients. However when testing and viewing perfmon there doesn't seem to be any activity. I have even set Configure BranchCache for network files to 0 in my GPO. I think that the problem is that I'm using Windows 8.1 Pro and I need to use Enterprise? I've searched quite a bit and there seems to be conflicting advice! Can someone clarify this for me?

Thanks.

Richard

What are you trying to do with BranchCache? Access a website? Use it with WSUS or ConfigMgr? Or just speed up filecopy and access in explorer?

Explorer (SMB) and native HTTP support requires Enterprise clients. BITS works in Windows Pro.

//Andreas
http://2pintSoftware.com

Hi

Speed up file access which does mean I need Enterprise. Thanks.

Richard

As a follow up I upgraded my test clients to 8.1 Enterprise but I still couldn't see any activity on the host cache server. However when I looked at the status on the clients I got the below info.

I'm surprised that local cache is showing something? My host cache shows the below with nothing in the cache?

Yeah, you got data in the cache, but where did it come from? As Enterprise also BC enables both BITS and any HTTP connection using wininet.dll (internet explorer) or winhttp.dll (any service or app), they could have put the data in there. Best is to flush the cache before any testing is done.

Remember that SMB is triggered by default below 80ms latency (GPO) so make sure you set it right or to 0 to force BC.

//Andreas
http://2pintSoftware.com

• Proposed as answer by Vivian_WangMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, December 22, 2014 7:32 AM
• Marked as answer by Vivian_WangMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Wednesday, December 24, 2014 3:18 AM
• Unmarked as answer by rjp1977 20 hours 3 minutes ago
• Unproposed as answer by rjp1977 20 hours 3 minutes ago

Had to install the web certificate on the content server as you would if using Windows 7 and this also got Windows 8 PC's to work.Rich

• Marked as answer by rjp1977 20 hours 2 minutes ago

That shouldnt be required though... so it was probably something else? Reboot?

According to the Microsoft documentation for 2012 you don't need the certificate for Windows 8, which I was trying initially. I only installed the cert to see if it would work with Windows 7 and it worked with both which surprised me. Had been rebooted a number of times already!