The only way to work on a laptop: folder redirection and offline files

posted by  jhorra (5)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I might bitch about eating our own dogfood, but a lot of the time it's actually pretty damn tasty.

For example, I can't remember how I ever used a laptop without the combination of folder redirection and offline files. Microsoft's technical support staff use folder redirection to give each of us a gigabyte of storage space on a central server, mapped to My Documents. This is pretty nice in itself - since they back up that server, there's no need for me to bother with all the hassle of backing up my personal machines. In this sen