I have a website that works fine with the WebDAV redirector.
When "Web Folders" were supported, there used to be a FOLDER= parameter in the URL, that would allow a (domain) user browsing an HTML site to click on a link and 'open' (single click) an Explorer (Windows explorer) window with that folder visible; files could then be copied / pasted.
Although we're a consulting company, I have a large number of users that cannot seem to be able to follow instructions to map a shared drive. Honestly, "Drop Box" and the like really is an easier interface.
Is there any easy way to have a web page (could be asp.net, etc) that has a 'link' that you can click on and allow you to upload, download, and rename files?
Note: we do not have a license for SharePoint, the owners have decided it's too expensive.
I've looked at some of the new Server 2012R2 functionality, but nothing seems quite as simple as "click on a link and explorer opens up" (not IE, windows explorer) that we used to have back in 2003.
The folders I'm talking about are also 'shared' folders; for example, the "Sales" folder, or "Project" folder. Although Work Folders looked promising, this note:
Users sync to their own folder on the file server - there is no support for syncing arbitrary file shares (e.g.: sync the sales demos share to my device)
pretty much kills that (this is exactly our scenario).
Of course, SkyDrive professional would probably do it, but our owners want to keep our content in-house.
Any suggestions for a way to do this with 2012R2?
== John ==