Comments on: Sharing files on your SBS03 server with external parties using Microsoft FolderShare http://davidschrag.com/schlog/397/sharing-files-on-your-sbs03-server-with-external-parties-using-microsoft-foldershare From the mind of David Schrag Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:54:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave Shackelford http://davidschrag.com/schlog/397/sharing-files-on-your-sbs03-server-with-external-parties-using-microsoft-foldershare/comment-page-1#comment-21519 Dave Shackelford Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:09:52 +0000 http://davidschrag.com/schlog/397/sharing-files-on-your-sbs03-server-with-external-parties-using-microsoft-foldershare#comment-21519 David, I actually set this up over a year ago, and it worked without any heavy tweaking. A partner and I created a folder that was shared on both our laptops, a workstation, and an SBS Server. The nice thing was that the server could back up our data each night, and since the volume we were using had shadow copies enabled, we could use the Shadow Copies to grab previous versions of spreadsheets in a pinch. Then, within months after Microsoft bought the product, they pushed an update that disabled FS on servers and made it a workstation-only product, as far as I could tell, and the service would no longer start on our SBS box. So since then we've been using it on the workstations, but can tell that M$ broke it to push people toward Live Mesh... David, I actually set this up over a year ago, and it worked without any heavy tweaking. A partner and I created a folder that was shared on both our laptops, a workstation, and an SBS Server. The nice thing was that the server could back up our data each night, and since the volume we were using had shadow copies enabled, we could use the Shadow Copies to grab previous versions of spreadsheets in a pinch.

Then, within months after Microsoft bought the product, they pushed an update that disabled FS on servers and made it a workstation-only product, as far as I could tell, and the service would no longer start on our SBS box. So since then we’ve been using it on the workstations, but can tell that M$ broke it to push people toward Live Mesh…

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