Setting up Windows Server 2019 work folders
Accessing data from wherever you happen to be is becoming more and more important with today's mobile workforce. Given this, it makes sense that more and more technologies are being designed to allow access to this data from more locations and more device types. This is what Work Folders in Windows Server 2019 is all about. It is a way to publish access to files and folders to the multiple device types that users may be logging into. These files are accessed via a web listener that is configured on the Work Folders file server, which enables this data to be accessed from inside or outside the corporate network, from both domain-joined and non-domain-joined systems.
Configuring a full-fledged Work Folders environment with all its moving parts and components is far too much data to be contained in a single recipe. Instead, we will focus on the steps that need to be taken on the file server itself in order to make it ready for hosting...