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BranchCache With DeDuplication – Miley Cyrus Version
2Pint Software Howdy Boys & Girls! Sometimes the public image of something is not a correct image, you might think that something/one is really quite sh*t at something when it really isn’t. I never...
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Bandwidth Management in Windows using Microsoft LEDBAT++
2Pint Software Windows 10 (and Server 2016) now has the built-in ability to transfer content completely in the background using only unused bandwidth How? Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBaT)...
View ArticlePeer-to-peer’s big brother: Peer-to-Server & Server-to-Peer (P2S2P) aka MS-PCHC
2Pint Software So recently there was a Twitter discussion that sparked my interest, it was about a very common scenario that we have been discussing with our customers over the last few years. The...
View ArticleAvoiding BranchCache Firewall Rule Bloat
2Pint Software OK I’ll keep this one simple and to the point.. If you enable BranchCache via ConfigMgr Client Settings – you might end up with a TON of duplicate Firewall rules relating to BranchCache....
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DHCP & PXE Test Client – In PowerShell
2Pint Software Had a thought the other day, why do I have to keep PXE booting these devices just to see what file name and other options, if any, I would get from my DHCP, proxyDHCP or IP...
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BranchCache Capabilites
2Pint Software Some third party companies spend a lot of time badmouthing Microsoft’s peer-to-peer technologies and highlight their own. I wonder what would be in their interest to do so? Hmmm… Anyhow,...
View ArticleBCMon 1.3
2Pint Software Release, get your version here: https://2pintsoftware.com/products/branchcache-monitor/ This tool supports several new command line options, listed below is the full list of switches:...
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5 Things You’ll Love about BCMon
2Pint Software 5 Things You’ll Love About BCMon (BranchCache Monitor) Did you know that it is possible to view your BranchCache traffic and performance in real-time and even interact with it? Without a...
View ArticlePicking the Right Compression Algorithm for BranchCache
2Pint Software Archiving ConfigMgr package content using archivers like Zip, 7-Zip, or WIM, is especially popular for large applications, and for driver packages used for Windows 10 deployment and...
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Picking the Right Compression Algorithm for BranchCache – Take two!
2Pint Software Johan wrote a great article blog two days ago ( https://2pintsoftware.com/picking-the-right-compression-algorithm-for-branchcache/ ) about the best format for distributing drivers as...
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The updated OSD Toolkit Turbo feature
2Pint Software One of the things that comes into play when doing any P2P stuff with BranchCache is the odd speed that you always seems to get. The same type of machine seems to almost always get the...
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Using BranchCache with the MEMCM Task Sequence HTTP downloader
2Pint Software Did you know BranchCache can be used with ANY http download that goes through the winhttp.dll or wininet.dll (i.e most stuff on Windows)? This includes downloads made by the MEMCM Task...
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MEMCM Bug! Enhanced HTTP Causes Degraded BranchCache Performance
2Pint Software This is a very long and complicated blog post. We haven’t gotten to the bottom of everything yet, but we have been working this for a few months now, and we finally have a pretty good...
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Troubleshooting Windows Error Codes Like a Pro
2Pint Software I deal with errors every day. I got used to it. My day is basically one big error. So I needed to learn early on in my life how to figure out what these numbers actually mean. I often...
View ArticleHow does BranchCache avoid overloading LANs with Multicast discovery?
2Pint Software Network admins are screaming, network is overloaded, Broadcast storms are seen. (Please note that BranchCache does not use Broadcast but Multicast). Exponential concerns. Yada yada yada....
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USB & BranchCache – what sorcery is this?
2Pint Software With no blogs in almost a year, you might think things have died down here at 2Pint Software? On the contrary my dear Watson, we have been too busy onboarding new customers and fiddling...
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Creating P2P Test Packages in ConfigMgr for Peer Cache and BranchCache
2Pint Software When setting up ConfigMgr for P2P – either via Peer Cache or BranchCache – it help a lot having a set of test packages available that are used for verifying your setup. These test...
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Delivery Optimization Recommendations for Microsoft Intune
2Pint Software For those of you still having machines in an office type setup, you can reduce the load on your Internet link, and speed up downloads from Microsoft Intune quite a bit, by creating a...
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Delivery Optimization Internals – Researching the Logs
2Pint Software Delivery Optimization (DO) is what Microsoft defines as a self-organizing distributed cache, available in Windows 10 and later, or as we like to call it, a P2P solution. DO is enabled by...
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Delivery Optimization Internals – Get Win32 App Download Info
2Pint Software Here is a follow-up post to our Delivery Optimization Internals – Researching the Logs post, with some download details on Win32 apps from Intune. I found it quite useful to tap into...
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