Are preposition jobs limited to CIFS requests?

[bakinbits]

I have a situation where one of our internal applications will be generating a ~50mb update that will go to all of our end users throughout the network.  The update isn't pushed to them using CIFS; it goes via HTTPS I believe.  Can I still preposition the file (pointed to the WAEs via CIFS) and still have it cached in DRE? 

Thanks,

David

[Bhavin Yadav]

Hi David,

Yes, you can certainly do that.

More details can be found from one of the yesterday's post on CIFS preposition:

"Your PC build files that were part of the preposition job are stored in the CIFS cache within a directory structure which correlates to the specific server (the same goes for on demand CIFS caching as well).  So, as you have found if you preposition file A from server X, but then when your client accesses file A from server Y, this will be a CIFS cache MISS (assuming file A wasn't accessed via server A by another client or preposition job).  However, you will receive a DRE cache hit, assuming the relevant DRE signatures that represent the bytes for file A have not been aged out."

Hope this helps.

Regards.

PS: Please mark thsi as Answered, if this answers your question.