Configuring e@syfolder discussion group

[Chris Mitchell]

We've started using e@syfolders in a Corporate or Workgroup environment.

I've been testing this with a colleague, and we've discovered a flaw in the
way we were hoping to use these.

We had hoped to be able to put Word documents in the DD such that individual
team members could update it with Track Changes enabled so that we could see
who had done what and when.

I got my colleague to open a test document from the e@syfolder DD on his PC
whilst I already had it open. I then asked him to make some changes and
save it which was all OK. I then made some changes from my PC on the copy I
already had open, but when I tried to save this Outlook wouldn't let me
because the file had been changed, presumably by my colleague.

Is there any way we can configure things such that only one copy of a
document can be open at any one time such that we don't overwrite each
others updates?

Or is there a better/easier way of achieving the same effect, with or
without e@syfolders?

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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

What did the e@syfolders developers say? (What is the web address for them?
Google is drawing a blank.)

Word keeps open documents locked, so this message is expected, however,
since few (if any) of us here are familiar with them, you'll get better
answers from the developers of the program.

Have you tried Windows Sharepoint Services? It does versioning and should
handle it better.

 

[Chris Mitchell]

It's not eATsyfolders, it's easyfolder as in Outlook/Public
Folders/Easyfolders/Team its just that MS call them e@syfolders and I didn't
remove the hyperlink that OE automatically created because it had an @ in
it! Sorry.

We don't have SharePoint and it is extremely unlikely that we would get it
even if we asked very nicely.

Any other suggestions as to how we coudl do this.
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