Generating hashes for multiple shares in one folder using BranchCache Publish-BCFileContent -Path

Question

When using Publish-BCFileContent to generate hashes for multiple shared directories that are all within the same parent directory, can I just specify the parent directory as the "-Path" parameter or do I need to run the cmdlet for each share
separately?
For example:
My file server has 3 separate shared folders:
E:\Shares\Documents
E:\Shares\Music
E:\Shares\Pictures
(E:\Shares is not directly shared)
To generate hashes for all 3 shared directories to export to a remote hosted cache computer could I run the Publish-BCFileContent cmdlet just once with just E:\Shares as the -Path parameter?
Publish-BCFileContent -Path E:\Shares -StageData
Or do I need to run the cmdlt 3 separate times as below?
Publish-BCFileContent -Path E:\Shares\Documents -StageData
Publish-BCFileContent -Path E:\Shares\Music -StageData
Publish-BCFileContent -Path E:\Shares\Pictures -StageData

Answer 1

Hi CharlesPool,
If there are only these three subfolders under the directory E:\Shares, you can try the cmdlet:
Publish-BCFileContent -Path E:\Shares -StageData -Recurse
Use the recurse parameter to specify that hashes are created for content in subfolders. If you do not use this parameter, then hashes are created only for content in the top folder and no hashes are created for content in subfolders.
If there are other folders under D:\Shares, you need to run the cmdlet separately, and you can also use the cmdlet foreach to loop every folders (E:\Shares\Documents, E:\Shares\Music, E:\Shares\Pictures):
$folders = "E:\Shares\Documents","E:\Shares\Music","E:\Shares\Pictures"
Foreach($folder in $folders){
Publish-BCFileContent –Path $folder –StageData}
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