Branchcache Compliance-Baseline

ConfigMgr–Compliance Baseline for BranchCache on Windows 8

Posted by Alex Verboon on Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Here’s a ConfigMgr Compliance baseline that checks the BranchCache configuration on Windows 8 clients. With the release of Windows 8 and Server 2012 Microsoft also made available PowerShell cmdlets for BranchCache, so creating a script based configuration item in ConfigMgr becomes a pretty straight forward task.

The below Compliance Baseline checks the following 3 things.

  • Is BranchCache Enabled

  • Is the Service Running

  • Is BranchCache operating in Distributed Cache mode

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    The following PowerShell commands are included within the configuration items.

$bcstat = get-bcstatus | Select-Object -Property BranchCacheIsEnabled
$($bcstat).BranchCacheIsEnabled
#True

$bcsrv = get-bcstatus | Select-Object -Property BranchCacheServiceStatus
$($bcsrv).BranchCacheServiceStatus
#Running

$bmode = get-bcstatus | Select-Object -ExpandProperty ClientConfiguration 
$($bmode).CurrentClientMode
# DistributedCache

The result is as following (when all is compliant.

 

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Or as following when things are NOT Compliant. 

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You can download the exported Win8-BranchCache.cab fie from here: http://sdrv.ms/GKMDyE

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