Using LiveMesh in Work Environments.

One of the paradigms that 3Metas (www.3metas.com) is trying to break has to do with physical offices. Most of the people who work with us stay in their homes most of the time but even those who are on site with our clients work from their homes sometimes.

In order to support this type of operation and the geographic expansion we have in mind it is necessary to establish tools that replace the ones we are used to using in traditional offices. One of those tools is Live Mesh (https://www.mesh.com/welcome/default.aspx)

With Live Mesh each of the people on our team can have the documents and/or files related to a project or even to the company synchronized at all times, this is a different approach from the one traditionally given to this system to allow synchronization between several machines of a single user. Below, a super quick guide on how to use Mesh in work scenarios

1. Go to the Mesh page and authenticate yourself with your Windows Live, Messenger or Hotmail user.

2. Once you authenticate and are in the device administration window, click on the add devices icon and install the Mesh application on your computer.

3. Once the installation process is finished, log in from the client application and select the folder you want to share with your work team.

4. Then you can invite other users to have access to these documents.

5. When users make changes to the files in the folder everyone will receive a notification.

Mesh folders now appear in blue.

The above process is for the first person who shares a group of files. For the people who are part of the work group and who are invited for the first time to use a shared resource in Mesh, the process is more or less like this:

1. Go to the Mesh page and authenticate yourself with your Windows Live, Messenger or Hotmail user.

2. Once you authenticate and are in the device administration window, click on the add devices icon and install the Mesh application on your computer.

3. Once the installation process is finished, log in from the client application

4. Click on the link of the invitation to the shared folder that arrives in your email.

5. An icon will have been created on the desktop, double-click on this icon and verify the path in which you want to store the files that are synchronized from Mesh.

6. Done, you are now using Mesh.

Every time you or someone from the work group modifies a file, everyone will be updated. There is no version control yet and the system reports conflicts from simultaneous modifications, it is better to establish a bit of order to avoid problems but in general it has been a very useful tool for us.

If it is still not clear to you what LiveMesh does, think of it as a shared network resource, but that is on the Internet. (The P, Z, X drive or one of those in which they force you to save the things they want backed up and that are generally on a network server).

Juan Pelaez
CTO
3Metas.

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