Chapter 11. Work with Offline Files

  • Understand offline files

  • Enable offline files

  • Configure Sync Center

  • Manage sync conflicts

  • Create sync partnerships

MOST PEOPLE who use a laptop in an office setting store their critical data on a company server or network share. The reason is because a network share makes it easy to store data and back it up regularly, and it makes the data available from anywhere you can obtain access to the network (such as through the company’s intranet or the World Wide Web).

If you use a laptop at work (or work from several different offices toting a laptop to and from each), you’ll appreciate the offline files feature in the Windows Vista operating system. With offline files, you can take data that’s stored on a network drive ...

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