Best practices for Mapping SharePoint 2007 site as a network drive on XP?

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  Hi,

  metadata is not handled in windows explorer or explorer view. If you copy many document into SharePoint by using explorer and have required columns, the documents that you are copying into SharePoint will not be checked in until the he required columns are filled in...

   

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  Saturday, July 9, 2011 11:01 PM
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  You must check these links and decide:

  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikewat/archive/2006/12/09/file-shares-vs-sharepoint.aspx

  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joelo/archive/2007/11/08/what-not-to-store-in-sharepoint.aspx

   

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  • Proposed as answer by Entan MingModerator Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:28 AM
  • Unproposed as answer by imtiaz.ahmed Thursday, July 14, 2011 8:58 PM

  Monday, July 11, 2011 12:06 PM
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  Thanks for the links. I realize the difference between SharePoint and normal file shares. We defenitely are going ahead with SharePoint. However, a particular segment of users have special requirements and would prefer to use mapped drive instead of SharePoint UI (just for couple of initial months).

  Thats why I am more interested in what would be drawbacks of mapping a SP as a drive? (It is def. the least desired option. I want to collect facts/analysis to give users heads up on this for clear expectations).

   

  Monday, July 11, 2011 6:21 PM
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  Can anyone please shed some light on this? I have to finalize my analysis soon. Thanks :)

  Thursday, July 14, 2011 8:57 PM
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  Please have a look at these links to know some of the issues users have faced:

  http://blog.makeitcomplete.com/2008/09/map-sharepoint-document-folder-to-a-network-drive/

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointadmin/thread/f31e9286-8c86-45db-9ef2-557f7f7fddf1

  http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices/browse_thread/thread/318840f24128a15d/ad1b6fed50ce630a%23ad1b6fed50ce630a?pli=1

   

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  • Marked as answer by Wayne Fan Monday, July 18, 2011 5:50 AM

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