File Sharing Services. Here the business problem is our users are
storing pirated media in their network home folders, or our users
are synchronizing their entire music library into their home folder
on the network and we're running out of space on the file server,
these sorts of things.
So what we have is a collection of role services in Windows Server.
The role is File and Storage Services, and the
specific services include File Server,
which gives you the ability to create and manage shared folders in a
more robust way than you can normally in Windows Server. We have the
File Server Resource Manager toolset,
or FSRM. This has a number of neat features,
but AZ‑800 only calls out two. One is file screens, and this is where
you can create file types that are simply forbidden.
So if a user tries to store MP3s in their home folder,
for example, Windows Server just will not let them.
The other thing is to help your file servers not run out of space is
that you can put quotas on volumes and folders, again,
useful in a home folder context for sure.
BranchCache for network files is the BranchCache element.
You already know this because of our demo.
You need this one when you're doing the file server, the web server cache.
And then there's the BranchCache feature, which you use for
hosted cache or the BITS content server.
So let's do a demo now where we'll look at these
File and Storage Services. Again, particularly we'll look at shared folders, file screens, and quotas.