They're not available.

Unless you use Offline Files, which in my experience is a nightmare. YMMV

I would definitely recommend something like OneDrive Pro or DataNow to do a 
sync to on-premise storage.

Sent from my (new!) BlackBerry, which may make me an antiques dealer, but it's 
reliable as hell for email delivery :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: J- P <[email protected]>
Sender: [email protected]: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:31:46 
To: [email protected]<[email protected]>
Reply-to: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] File sync laptops to server

If i redirect MyDocs and Desktop to \\server\redirect\UserHome , what happens 
when they are out of the office?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jean-Paul Natola

 


> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] File sync laptops to server
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 23:50:57 +0000
> 
> I forgot to mention this earlier, but one problem with Robocopy is that you 
> can't do bidirectional syncing with it.  If you don't need bidirectional 
> syncing though, then robocopy is perfect since it's built in and hence 
> available automatically on all computers.
> 
> We use bidirectional syncing to allow a laptop user to switch back and forth 
> between a laptop (where we have FreeFileSync installed) to a desktop (where 
> we have folder redirection implemented) and have the same Desktop and 
> Documents.  However, this may not be needed depending on your environment.
> 
> -Aakash Shah
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Terry Dickson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:39 PM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] File sync laptops to server
> 
> In the past one office I worked for wanted a free option, I just used 
> Robocopy in Windows 7 to accomplish the task.  Worked better than the 9+ 
> Months I tried to get offline files working.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of James Rankin
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:06 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] File sync laptops to server
> 
> I redirect special folders to something like c:\users\user\DataNow\Documents
> 
> Then the DataNow client syncs it up with the remote location of 
> \\server\share\user\DataNow\Documents when they're in the office.
> 
> Lots of other solutions work the same way (DropBox, Google Drive, etc.)
> 
> 
> On 28 January 2014 23:01, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>         All laptops here.  They work remote almost daily.
> 
> 
> 
>         I used the word 'workstation' where I probably should not have.
> 
> 
> 
>         From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rankin, James R
>         Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 4:41 PM
>         To: [email protected]
>         Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] File sync laptops to server
> 
> 
> 
>         You can use Folder Redirection GPOs effectively to redirect your 
> users' special folders to the place required
> 
>         Sent from my (new!) BlackBerry, which may make me an antiques dealer, 
> but it's reliable as hell for email delivery :-)
> 
> ________________________________
> 
>         From: "Sam Cayze" <[email protected]>
> 
>         Sender: [email protected]
> 
>         Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:37:13 -0600
> 
>         To: <[email protected]>
> 
>         ReplyTo: [email protected]
> 
>         Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] File sync laptops to server
> 
> 
> 
>         A lot of these solutions offered depend on your users actually 
> putting files in certain locations on your disk, or initiating the backup.
> 
> 
> 
>         If you want something totally automated, you need to set something up 
> that grabs the user's files.
> 
> 
> 
>         Such as:
> 
>         My Docs
> 
>         Desktop
> 
>         Signatures
> 
>         Firefox Profile (Or just the bookmarks file).
> 
> 
> 
>         I skip My Pictures and My Music (User are trained NOT put work 
> related files here)
> 
> 
> 
>         Possibilities:
> 
>         Script it from the server to go out and grab these files.  Or, I 
> personally use SyncBack Pro on a server to grab these files from all 
> workstations every 3 hours throughout the day.  It provides one central place 
> to manage them.  I've also configured it to do a lot of reporting and alerts. 
>  All these backups go to one Folder, with a subfolder for each workstation.  
> Each night I back up the top level folder with my normal encrypted backups 
> that go offsite.
> 
> 
> 
>         If you want something more hand-off, I'd suggest Mozy Pro for 
> Business or CrashPlan.  (But I recall you specified no 3-rd parties).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>         From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P
>         Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 12:01 PM
>         To: [email protected]
>         Subject: [NTSysADM] File sync laptops to server
> 
> 
> 
>         Hi all,
> 
>         A small office (5 users laptops with docks) 1x 2012 server (can add 
> more if required , hyper-v)
>         All laptops are windows 7 pro, what would be the recommended solution 
> (preferably windows as software is charity pricing)?
> 
>         They are out of the office about 50% of the time, all office docs and 
> PDF's
> 
> 
>         thanks
> 
> 
> 
>         JP
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> James Rankin
> ---------------------
> RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization 
> Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
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