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Creating multiple websites in IIS 6 for student projects

gcastner — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:38:00 GMT

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Making files available offline

gcastner — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:18:00 GMT

Many faculty and students in the Lundquist College of Business use their I: Drive to store files. Sometimes, however, you can't connect to your I: drive. You might be travelling or your Internet connection might be down. You can still work with your files, however, if you make them available offline. You can then synchronize your files when you are reconnected to your I:Drive.

Note that making files available offline only makes sense on your own computer because a copy of the files is stored on your computer. Don't try to do this on a lab computer.

Here are the steps (steps 1-7 need only be performed once):

1. Open the folder that you want to make available offline (e.g. your I: Drive folder)

2. Click on Tools from the menu

3. Click on Folder Options

4. Click on Offline Files

5. Click on Enable offline files

6. Choose your prefered synchronization times (my preference is to synchronize only when logging off).

7. Click OK.

8. For each folder that you want available offline, right click the folder and select 'Make available offline".

That's it - hope it helps.

Changing location of My Documents folder

gcastner — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:56:00 GMT

You can change the location of my documents to any folder that you like. For example, if you are a LCB student or faculty member, you might want to point your My Documents folder to your I: Drive so that it is accessible from any computer at work or home. Here are the steps:

1. Right click on your My Documents folder.

2. Click on properties

3. Click on the Move button

4. Select the folder in which you want to store your files (e.g., your I: Drive)

5. Click OK

To access your I: Drive from home, see my blog posting on the topic: Connecting to I: Drive from home

If you want to make your documents available offline so that you can still work with your files even when you can't connect to your I: network drive, see my blog post: Making files available offline.