There must be many ways to do this, I am interested in knowing what
options exist.
We have a mainframe system that publishes many reports on a weekly,
monthly, quarterly basis. Some of these reports can become large (too
large to email). Currently, we burn the reports to CD-ROMS and stick
them in the mail to our remote employees. We are trying to think of a
way to better distribute the reports to the users as well as reduce
cost/resources.
For now, we are planning to create a file-share on a server that the
mainframe will FTP the reports to. The share will have permissions set
for the appropriate users. Next, we are going to use a page-viewer
web-part (configured to the shared folder path) in SPS2003 to "viewport"
the folder to a WSS site. The users can then go and retrieve the
reports when they need them while the files themselves sit securely on
the file server (as opposed to living inside the SPS Content dB)
Question is, are there any other ways to get documents, reports, files
"INTO" a document library from outside of SsharePoint? Our requirements
above are pretty basic, so I was thinking the ftp/share method explained
was the lowest overhead. This is for SPS 2003 (although if there are
better mechanisms to accomplish this in MOSS2007 - I would love to hear
those as well)