Offline Files Alternative

[Andyt_uk]

I'm trying to find an alternative to the dreaded Offline files feature of XP. Practically all of our users have laptops and need to work offline, so we have offline files setup to sync their home folders with their local my docs folder.

Trouble is that theres seems to be lots of problems with machines going offline when they move about, switching between wireless and wired connections. Sync'ing quite often fails as theres no easy way to exclude certain types of files (although i know you can do this with reg entries)

So, basically wondering if anyone has any alternatives that they use for this type of situation at the mo? I've started looking into SyncToy but it seems as though it could be a bit of a pain to script and deploy to everyone.

Anyone have or use any alternatives?

Cheers,

 

[Andyt_uk]

cheers, shall take a look and see about getting some quotes. How much were licenses when you brought them and is it one per machine?

also, anyone had any success in doing this with Synctoy or any other free alternatives?

Cheers

 

[Andyt_uk]

hmm, i was thinking robocopy may be ideal, maybe in a scheduled task to run every few hours and before logoff.

Currently all files are stored on the network, so it would need to copy them locally first and then just sync from local to network. Unless of course robocopy can copy 2 ways.

Will check it out somemore