Barry Mews 
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| 12/30/2007 08:51 PM |
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ok so i've now got 3 xp pro laptop clients that have made the switch from an workgroup with offline files/folders to a workstation acting as a fileserver. The question is what are the recommendations or best practices about setting up offline folders within an SBS domain? Additionally, I've typically got users who like to store files on their desktops. Are there any recommendations for making sure that their files are stored somewhere on the server and consequently backed up.
Thanks in advance.
Barry,
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Stewart Brown
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| 12/30/2007 09:51 PM |
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I work mostly from a laptop, a big heavy HP desktop substitute, and I find the easiest thing for me both in and out of the office is just the briefcase. I have the my documents folder redirected to the server, as all clients have in my organization. That works ok for mostly personal stuff for me, but for project folders we use the briefcase. So I have on my desktop several briefcases that I work out of that synch up with respective folders on the servers. We do this on other machines in the office also, even other desktops. Especially ones that do a lot of scanning. If you do a lot of document scanning (I mean like dozens or hundreds of sheets at a time) what you will find is that it's a real pain to try to scan to a network drive - it just slows the process down too much. So we scan to the briefcases then synch the scans to the servers.
But I always like to find betters methods so I'm all eyes for what tricks others have. |
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Barry Mews
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| 12/30/2007 11:02 PM |
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they were using offline files/folders which sync'd up upon log in and log out. Worked fine in the workgroup scenario, just wondered if it was a simiilar setup for sbs.
thanks again for the responses. Much appreciated.
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Allan Brownsdon
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| 1/13/2008 07:28 AM |
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Hi Barry,
Don't know if it this is a bit late, but a product I have used with workgroups is Syncbak SE. It works a treat and can also be used for server shares etc quite reliably. There is also a freeware version, but for logon/logoff jobs, I'd try the Shareware version, its very reasonably priced.
As for Desktops, there is a GPO policy setting somewhere that can be used to deny writing of files to the desktop. I've also tried making the Desktop folder read-only but as well as locking the desktop, it makes logon very slow!
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Barry Mews
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| 1/29/2008 01:59 PM |
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Hi Allan,
many thanks for your reply. The standard offline folders seems to be working well albeit some filetypes are not allowed such as pst. but other than that it's ok.
Thanks again.
Barry
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william warren
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| 1/29/2008 02:57 PM |
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| you can modify the registry to allow .pst and any other files they don't allow. |
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Barry Mews
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| 1/29/2008 07:56 PM |
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Hi William, Thanks for the reply. Care to point me in the direction of where I can find some instructions on modifying the registry for this?
Barry
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william warren
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| 2/05/2008 05:25 PM |
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/252509
I'm assuming this is tied into a AD environment. If not let me know as there is another route.
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