Comments on: Fully utilizing workstation storage

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:18:54 +0000

I have not found much technical details about BranchCache – I actually learned about it when I did the beta of the Win 7 MCTS exam ! (not a good way to learn about stuff!)

And indeed I wonder how stuff is encrypted, I mean, EFS or not, it needs to be encrypted else it would totally defeat the point of NTFS access rights on the shares you replicate..

By: admin

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:28:04 +0000

I honestly had not heard of that before today. Our lab computers currently run Windows XP, but we definitely plan on upgrading to Windows 7 soon. The “Distributed Cache mode” looks very promising. The next hurdle (after I get it installed) is making sure data on lab machines isn’t accessible by users. If this can work with EFS or similar encryption, BranchCache may be the answer I’m looking for. Thanks for the feedback!

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:21:21 +0000

Have you looked at branchCache? It can be useful though not exactly what you need…

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd637784(WS.10).aspx

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:14:53 +0000

I have wanted to do this for years. My direction of thought has always been towards a modified P2P client that would just use a percentage of the currently unused storage on our workstations and integrate with Windows, etc. to allow the mapping of drives to the storage.