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Mirrored Configuration

When two or more workgroups connect in a mirrored configuration, each workgroup will inherit each other's data and any changes made to the data in one workgroup will be reflected in all the other workgroups.

The advantage of a mirrored configuration is that all users, regardless of which database they come from or where they are physically located, appear as if they all belong to the same local Workgroup.

This means that a user can view the diary of a user belonging to another workgroup, just as if that user was a member of the same workgroup. In addition, all users will share the same contact address book, meetings, planners and projects etc. It also means that a user, visiting another site, can access his own diary from that site and see his changes reflected exactly at his own site.

All this may be considered an advantage for certain Organisations, but a disadvantage for others where less intimate data sharing is favoured.

One disadvantage of the Mirrored Configuration is that the data you access will not be up-to-date with the actual data held in the remote workgroup since the data that you access is a copy of the original data. The accuracy of your data depends entirely on how frequently data is synchronised.


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