Re: Offline Files Best Practises

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The best advice I ever stole from Lanwench for laptops is to use Second Copy
to sync files with the laptop instead of Offline Files. I sync a small
number of files successfully with Offline Files, but with 2 GB, I'd be using
Second Copy (which is what I do use for my own laptop users with large
amounts of data to sync).

http://www.secondcopy.com/


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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David Parkes <wibble@xxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Hi Peeps!

I was wonder what you guys would consider best practise for off line
files. We have many users and some of these are syncing nearly 2Gb
worth of data and they are constatly having problems. What would
recommend is the maximum amount of data that can be sync

I don't use offline files for LAN-connected (desktop) users at
all....that's my solution. I'm not overly fond of it for laptops, even.
What makes you want to keep it going in the first place? It invariably
complicates things & causes more problems than it purports to solve, in my
experience.



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