SCCM 1710 - Client Data Source Report incorrect

Question

I have 800 clients that I have enabled Branch Caching on, however when deploying a package, I do not see the Client Data Source report showing clients having used the Branch Cache.

I have waited 48 hours after deploying the package, but it still shows in the report that all of the content was served by the server.

What I have seen via Perfmon on the three clients:

Deployment to a single client

• BITS: Bytes from Server and Retrieval: Bytes from Server is populated with the 20mb I expect from my package.

Deployment 30 mins later to two other clients on the same subnet

• BITS: Bytes from Cache and Retrieval: Bytes from Cache are populated with the 20mb I expect from my package.
• On the initial client, I also see Retrieval: Bytes Served at around 40mb, consistent in proving that it has sent cached content to the two other devices.

Client configuration:

• BITS enabled
• Client Cache Enabled with following settings
  • Configure BranchCache - Yes
  • Enable BranchCache - Yes
  • Maximum Cache Size - 10%

Package Configuration:

• Allow clients to share content with other clients on the same subnet is checked.

This would indicate that the content is coming from the cache.

Answer 1

There are 3 things that need to be configured for branch in SCCM 1710. You need to enable branch cache on client, enable branch cache on server and enable branch cache on the deployment.

It sounds like you have it enabled on the client and the deployment, but what about the server side. The DP serving the client should have branch cache enabled. If the client is in boundary group for more than one DP, the DP it is trying to download from needs to have branch cache enabled.