Pro SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery and High Availability

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Caching has the largest impact where there is a high ratio of content consumers to producers and where the content changes infrequently. This is generally not the case with SharePoint, which aspires to make all users contributors and for updates to be fast and frequent. But caching can be set by the administrator to react differently depending on the profile of the user. If the user is anonymous, it can be assumed the content will change less often for them so the content is kept warm. With authenticated users, the content is assumed to be colder and so the caching is not as frequent. SharePoint gives you a range of options to manage the caching of page ...