Team Foundation Server Proxy and Source Control

This post introduces the Team Foundation source control proxy, detailing its design for boosting network performance by caching source control files locally. It explains the basic operation from both client and server perspectives, including cache management based on last access time. The post also outlines essential maintenance tasks, such as monitoring performance counters (Current Cache Size, Total Cache Hits, Total Download Requests, Total Files in Cache, Total Cache Miss), and describes the security mechanism using a pre-authenticated ticket scheme with public/private key signatures for user authorization.