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SharePoint without Sync (Advice Needed)
Our biggest challenge with SharePoint is how to roll it out to End Users with no SharePoint Experience (many of these users are engineers/site based on slow(ish) internet connections. We have lar...
Another alternative is to look at SharePoint apps that mimic Windows Explorer in the browser. See e.g.
This provides a light-weight and familiar interface to SharePoint. Caching and other performance measures (e.g., only refresh part of a screen) combined with the smart use of thumbnails to view files reduces the network footprint dramatically. See example for photos:
Using search a list with all accessible sites (security trimmed) allows users to navigate efficiently between many sites.