I decided to have a play with Live Mesh tonight. I’ve wanted a way to synch my Favourites folder between laptop, desktop and my work laptop. That rules out using folder redirection on my network at home – anyway I’m thinking of flattening the SBS box and reusing the machine for something else.
I installed it from the web site and synched the favourites from my personal laptop. I could then sign into mesh on my work laptop and view the folder contents. I was then able to install the client on that machine and view the folders. I opened Favourites from my personal laptop (on my work machine) and copied in the work machine’s Favourites. They instantly appeared over on my laptop. They now stay in synch whenever I change a file.
It looks like you can share your files via Mesh as well. You could think of it as a very limited (in function and size) version of Groove.
I also tried out the remote desktop feature. It appears that is uses Remote Assistance tunnelled over HTTPS. That bypasses those ISP’s who’ve been blocking "work" network protocols such as PPTP, RDP and IPsec. The performance was quite good. The only downside was that it required an approval for the connection on the target machine.