SOLVED Remote Differential Compression, Peer/Branch Cache enabled clients.

[Sam Banford]

While doing some casual reading on Server 2019 I noticed the following on the "Features removed or planned for replacement starting Windows Server 2019" page @ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started-19/removed-features-19 :
Remote Differential Compression API support

The w-pedia page for RDC states "by 2019 is not being developed and is not used by any Microsoft product." which seems to be in direct conflict with the "Site and site system prerequisites for Configuration Manager" page @ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/plan-design/configs/site-and-site-system-prerequisites where it's still listed. Not to mention I'm pretty sure DFS-R still makes use of RDC.

I'm wondering why RDC is on the chopping block if SCCM and DFS-R are using it? I'm starting to wonder if SCCM is actually making use of it where enabled. Is anyone aware of system logs that report on RDC use?

Has anyone who has dipped into any early documentation on SCCM 1906 seen anything regarding dropping the RDC implementation?

Currently utilizing RDC and P/BC on a few multi-site setups where client content sourcing tends to shift to the caches pretty rapidly.

 

[Prajwal Desai]

Hi Sam, sorry for the late response. I checked with some of my MVP friends and Microsoft, for now do not consider what is mentioned in the w-pedia page. Microsoft will make an announcement if it is going to remove the feature.

 

[Sam Banford]

Not a problem. Works for me, hoping they keep RDC in.