I have been using SharePoint Workspace to keep an offline copy of my MOSS document libraries, since there are many situations where i want the documents and i may not have an available connection.
After recently upgrading my PC to Windows 8 (that's another tale!), I also upgraded to Office 2013. When upgrading i had removed my previous Office 2010 install, and was surprised to find that SharePoint Workspace was no more.
Reading up on this some links i found that Microsoft has finally moved out the last remaining client based on the Groove product for peer to peer file sharing and collaboration. The first solution was to have Office 2010 to continue to coexist and use the Workspace product with Office 2010.
However reading a bit more, i found that the ability to sync with a remote document library is possible with the SkyDrive Pro, and you use Windows Explorer rather than a separate client for file browsing and managing.
The new feature seems to be working fine for now, will update more as i use it further.
Some links:
http://www.jasperoosterveld.com/2012/09/office-2013-sharepoint-workspace-is-no.html
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/grooveserveritpro/thread/0508d418-7cc2-40c0-8914-b863bf5e6892/
Been using it for a while but finding that is not a true replacement for Workspaces. For instant you do not have the very important ability of checkin and checkout.
ReplyDeleteFor that you have to select file, and say go to browser and do the check-out or check-in process.
So you can end up working on a file and realizing only when you go to the browser that someone else has worked on it.
Another issue is that if you upload from SkyDrive, the file is stored into MOSS, but it cannot be seen by anyone since it does not check-in the file. Again you have to manually go and check-in for it to be available for others.