Groove and Sharepoint Syncronization

[CeeJayEm]

We are in the process of implementing a MOSS2007 intranet with Groove Server
alongside this but we have a specific question which we cannot find an answer
to. I am hoping someone may be able to help here. I have put an example of
the potential problem below.

User A and User B share files on the sharepoint drive. Both have synced this
area to a Groove workspace. User A has to go on a business trip and works on
a file during the journey. When he gets to a second company location he needs
to “resync†the file. Meantime User B has edited the same file. The question
is how Groove/Sharepoint can handle this? A couple of thoughts sprung to
mind. Firstly if this happens, assuming versioning is on then this should
mean both copies of the file would be kept. That said it would be useful if
User A had a warning that the file has been edited since he took his copy,
and by who so he could talk to User B and find out what the changes were.

Does this make sense and if so can anyone shed any light on this?

 

[Gregg Johnston [MSFT]]

Hi,

Yes, you actually have the behavior correctly stated. Versioning will make
the first person to save the default document and the second person to save
as their version. Although there is no warning in place now, look for
SharePoint integration to vastly improve with the release of SharePoint
Workspace – the successor to Groove.

Gregg