Mobile Document Access (For Councillors and Staff) Using WebDAV
Overview All Councillors have Apple iPads (and iPhones) Council documents are distributed to Councillors electronically using WebDAV. Councillors download documents using Readdledocs and/or iAnnotate Both apps store local versions of the docs on the iPad It’s reliable, easy, quick and the accepted way 2
What is WebDAV? Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning Many modern operating systems provide built in support for WebDAV WebDAV gives you a private cloud with full Windows security Many iPad applications support WebDAV 3
iPad WebDAV Applications Readdledocs iAnnotate GoodReader Pages Numbers Keynote WebDAV Nav+ iStorage My WebDAV OverTheAir And more… 4
Security Each iPad user must have a domain login In the iPad app, the external URL and domain login is required Back at the office… on the network share, create user folders and add authorised users drag and drop content into the user-folders Apps behave differently. Some hide, others grey-out, unauthorised users 5
Some Examples 6
Internal use We make a network share available to all staff, mapped to “T” for Temp Every Friday content older than 1 week in T is deleted We map “T” to a WebDAV login that staff can use to access content on iDevices T drive 7 Readdledocs on an iPad
Known Issues The Windows built-in WebDAV client is problematic No Business Continuity 8
How to… on-windows-server-2008-r2/ 9
Contact Details Brandon Cheshire Manager Information Services Mornington Peninsula Shire Mobile: