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SharePoint Files in desktop/Windows Explorer solutions
Good afternoon, Our business is in the process of building an intranet/document management system in SharePoint and we're anticipating the push-back from users to be that they won't be able to br...
Thank you both. ChrisWebb, Zee Drive is still having you utilize a server just like a shared drive, correct? So at the end of the day, it's not really moving to a cloud environment, right?
ZeeDrive maps a SharePoint Library / Folder to a Network Drive. So your files are still in the cloud (SharePoint) but to the use, it looks just like the same network drive they always wanted.
I had to use it for our Finance group because they had a large number of "Linked Excel Files" hard coded to our Network S: Drive, so ZeeDrive was the solution. We moved those folders over to a library, same structure, and created a mapped S: Drive. Their computers don't know any difference, nor does it work any different than a network drive.
You don't get the 'Share' and 'Open in browser' context menu's you get with OneDrive sync, with ZeeDrive etc. There are a couple new context menu things for coauthoring etc. but nothing crazy. I prefer OneDrive sync with the shortcuts cause you get all the features, but if you got stubborn users that refuse to change and or linked file issues preventing a move, then zee drive is way to go. Also Zee Drive can handle larger document libraries, with sync you can only have 300k supported synced files at a given time in your local sync.
I had to use it for our Finance group because they had a large number of "Linked Excel Files" hard coded to our Network S: Drive, so ZeeDrive was the solution. We moved those folders over to a library, same structure, and created a mapped S: Drive. Their computers don't know any difference, nor does it work any different than a network drive.
You don't get the 'Share' and 'Open in browser' context menu's you get with OneDrive sync, with ZeeDrive etc. There are a couple new context menu things for coauthoring etc. but nothing crazy. I prefer OneDrive sync with the shortcuts cause you get all the features, but if you got stubborn users that refuse to change and or linked file issues preventing a move, then zee drive is way to go. Also Zee Drive can handle larger document libraries, with sync you can only have 300k supported synced files at a given time in your local sync.