Mapped Drive - Security Token Expires - Users Loose Access

Hi Mo,

I was just about to create a new discussion about this very issue.

I have a very small company (<30 Users) who wanted to get rid of some of their infrastructure and get some cloud gains (like anywhere access)

Initially their two main Network shares were migrated into SharePoint document Libraries and the Mapped Drives were set up so that the users have a very similar familiar experience to work with whilst at the same time the remote users have better than ever access.

The reason for not using the ODFB Sync Client has a few reasons.

• Old Sync Client is extremely unreliable and multiple users inputs and syncs would cause some massive sync conflicts
• It would require much user training on making sure they all went to the new libraries and initiated the sync (or we could roll out some logon script I guess)
• We'd have to split down the document libraries much further to make sure it met the 5000 item limit

For smaller companies like this adding an additional subscription for them to pay for them just to have the same functionality they previously had is just not acceptable for them. Thus why we try and use mapped Drives and have to deal with the token expiry consequences.

I do imagine some of the need could easily be resolved if Outlook included the same SaveAs functionality as Word/Excel etc. Because then we could train the users to work from the open/save menus of the applications.

We've toyed with the idea of putting the data into OneDrive and then using the NGSClient to Sync to a Server and then Map to there (Better Sync Client, No auth issues from clients to Server) but that also means we're still reliant on infrastructure.

We're about to do some testing around using Azure Authentication on the Computer to see if this solves the token expiry issue without having to involve another third party tool.

Any insight you can provide on accomodating for these habitual mapped drive users, ODFB failings and lack of saveas functionality in Outlook would be appreciated without using additional third party software would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Antony