Webdav stands for Web based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. It is a networking protocol defined as a set of extensions to the standard HTTP protocol. Standard HTTP protocol supports only read only operations, you can see the data that is present on the web server, but you can’t write data to the web server. Webdav … Read more
Windows OS supports access to webdav shares using webclient service. Webdav is a network protocol that support both read and write access on web directories. See the references at the end of this post to know more on Webdav. This web client service is available on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 and Server 2003 … Read more
Windows XP SP2 support tools can be downloaded from the below link. //www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=49ae8576-9bb9-4126-9761-ba8011fabf38 List of tools available in this kit. acldiag.exe activate.doc activate.exe addiag.exe adprop.dll adsiedit.dll adsiedit.msc apidll.dll apimon.cnt apimon.exe apimon.hlp apmstat.exe bindiff.exe bitsadmin.exe browstat.exe cabarc.exe clonegg.vbs cloneggu.vbs clonelg.vbs clonepr.dll clonepr.doc clonepr.vbs depends.cnt depends.dll depends.exe depends.hlp dfsutil.exe dhcploc.exe diruse.exe dmdiag.exe dnscmd.exe dsacls.exe dsastat.exe dskprobe.cnt dskprobe.exe … Read more
If you have upgraded from XP to Windows7 you will see lot of changes in offline files feature. It works more robustly when compared to XP. Below are the steps to enable offline files in Win7. Open Control Panel from Start button. Open Sync center (If you don’t see sync center select ‘Small Icons’ in … Read more
If you are not seeing Offline files tab in Folder options, it could be because of one of the following reasons.1)You are using XP home edition. Offline files is not a supported feature on Windows XP Home edition. Solution :You need to switch to a supported edition to use offline files. In the below two … Read more
If you are seeing Make available offline option grayed out in the context menu for a network folder, there could be different reasons possible. If it shows Make available offline option selected and grayed out then it could be a administratively pinned folder which a normal user can’t change. If it shows Make available offline … Read more
Question from a blog reader: The share I made offline has been moved to a new server but offline files is trying to sync with the old server. Is there any way to make it sync with the new server? I do not want to delete the files and begin everything from scratch with the … Read more
What kind of shares can we make offline? In XP, offline files is integrated with SMB protocol. So it works only for SMB shares. It can be used on DFS shares also, as DFS shares also work on SMB protocol. Do we need to configure anything on the server machine to use offline files? Though … Read more
Offline files periodically synchronizes the cached files with the server copies at regular intervals of time. If the network speed is very low, this sync will consume more time and the user will also have latency issue in accessing the files as the requests go to server only for each and every file access. To … Read more
Sometimes users see “enable offline files” option greyed out in the Offline Files tab. This happens when the group policy is set to disable offline files. This locks the offline files UI and users will not be able to change any setting. You might have to contact the administrator of the computer domain to get the the … Read more