Setting up Windows Server 2012 R2 Work Folders

Accessing data from wherever you happen to be is becoming more and more important with today's mobile workforce. Given that, it makes sense that more and more technologies are being designed that allow for the accessing of this data from more locations, and more device types. This is what Work Folders in Windows Server 2012 R2 is all about. It is a way to publish access to files and folders to multiple device types that the users may be logging in to. 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 of the moving parts and pieces is far too much data to be contained in a single recipe. Today we will focus on the steps that need to be taken on the file server itself in order to make it ready for...