RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-18 Thread Victor Isakov
Hmmm: Looks like it's no longer a free product. That's a shame: (Only had a very quick look.) DocAve 5 Extender was a free product when I talked about RBS at a some conference a couple of years back: http://www.avepoint.com/news/2010/02/24/avepoint-introduces-free-tool-for-sh arepoint-blob

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-18 Thread Ishai Sagi
Remote desktop (citrix etc) will not have latency...files never leave the network. From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Tuesday, 19 August 2014 3:27 PM To: ozMOSS Subject: RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-18 Thread Paul Noone
I was hoping to a void a third-party solution, Ishai, but the DocAve solution does look very good. Nothing's going to solve latency when off-network. I might look at demoing both and will let you know. From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Victor Isakov S

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-18 Thread Victor Isakov
Which is why I suggested Drop Box. Offsite back = good Over the Internet access from virtually all popular O/Ss = good And it integrates into NASs, file servers, etc seamlessly without affecting what you do at the SPS level or anything else. But I completely understand if a business do

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-18 Thread Paul Noone
We don't want any third party solutions or off-site storage. >From what I can find (and information is hard to come by) I can bind the BDC >model to an assembly, which means I can write custom actions for file >interactions. Is it hard just to expose them as a list (filename,size,modified date)

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-18 Thread Victor Isakov
What about something like DropBox? From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Tuesday, 19 August 2014 12:25 PM To: ozMOSS Subject: RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library SharePoint is available over the Internet. I

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-18 Thread Ishai Sagi
I doubt BDC is your solution. It will only expose the files as links to the file share- not allow you to deal with them as if they are files in the database. Mind you - I may not be as familiar with BDC as I once was (circa 2007) From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-18 Thread Paul Noone
SharePoint is available over the Internet. I mean when the user is not directly connected to the network. I agree speed will be an issue. But this is more about providing remote access when required. They need read/write capability. I've never seen an example of a BDC connected list in action s

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-18 Thread Ishai Sagi
If the user is off the network, doesn't that mean that sharepoint will not be available either? Or is sharepoint available through the internet - which only raises more worries - a CAD file would make a dent in most download allowances, not to mention potential speed issues with the uplink... I

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-18 Thread Paul Noone
Thank Victor. I couldn't agree with you more! So much damn contradictory info. And thanks for the explanation, Ishai. All the files already exist on a file share. Users download large files to their system to work on to avoid network latency. My goal is simply to give them access to this file s

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-18 Thread Ishai Sagi
Paul - the "collaboration" refers to databases that are used for about equal amounts of read\write, as opposed to "document repository" (think document centres and record centres) which is a mostly read, rarely write database - and Microsoft supports up to 4TB in those types of databases - with

Re: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-18 Thread Sutha Thavaratnarajah
Good explanation Victor. Thanks for this thread guys. Informative. Sutha 0450076504 Sent from my iPhone > On 18 Aug 2014, at 4:45 pm, "Victor Isakov" > wrote: > > OOC are you using SQL Server Enterprise Edition? > > This whole RBS / FILESTREAM area is a bit of a mess with lots of > miscommu