Automated Synchronization with AD?

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Mike Gray

Greetings!

I'm thinking about trying out w2k server and active directory in my
home office. At the moment I have a peer-to-peer network with one
server and four laptops, all running w2k pro. I have a large and
complex set of data (mostly files) that I want kept in sync among all
five machine - and the directory structure involved makes the w2k
offline files feature useless (since offline files reduces the whole
structure to a huge puddle.)

At the moment I'm using copyto - a file synchronization utility - and
it does a pretty nice job. But more people are going to be using the
machines in the future, and I don't want to have to trust them to
manually sychronize their work. What I'm looking for is an automated
system that will work behind the scenes, and ask questions only as
needed.

Will w2k server + active directories help me here?

Intellimirror seems like it might be able to handle this, but the
whole thing also seems horendously complex. Any tips out there??

TIA,

Mike Gray
 
For Intellimirror to do the trick, you'd need to be running 2000 server on
each machine, and have Distributed File System setup. I'd recommend that you
just have everybody save to a central place, frankly. Plan B is a logoff
script with some sync commands.

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