New file server and offline files

[jamin100]

I need to move our staff files from a very old 2003 storage server to a new 2012R2 Virtual Server.

 

The server is already setup and serving files for our shared areas but id like a bit more information before moving the staff files and more specifically offline files.

 

in GP staff have a policy to sync the H:\ drive. So if the file server name changes but the files in the H:\ drive are still the same will sync continue as normal ?

[synaesthesia]

As bloody awful as offline files are, would it perhaps be worth looking at something else instead? Office 365 and Onedrive maybe also with a decent remote access system like HAP? Be far more reliable and less likely for files to wander off constantly.

[edutech4schools]

I would use this time to ditch offline files as it's such a poor service and is not reliable.

[jamin100]

Yeh we do use HAP and are looking into O365 at the minute but we do have quite a lot of staff that don't have Internet access!

[sted]

you could try work folders it will work over the internet or just internally and can be configured with group policy and I believe though havnt tested you can redirect my docs etc to it so it looks like offline files without being offline files