I have been playing around with Mesh a bit of late. Mostly good other than on a few of my machines, Mesh refused to install. Either the install itself failed or it just never allowed me to sign in.
But, I figured out one use for Mesh this morning that made it all come together: sharing IE Favorites. After installing Mesh, share the following folder on each machine:
Xp, 2003:
C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Favorites\Links
Vista, 2008:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Favorites\Links
Make sure when resolving the share location of the folder on subsiquent machines, you browse to the location above.
Now your IE links are synced across machines.
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http://sync.live.com/ is better for sharing Favorites and whatnot. Mesh is ok, but it has a limited storage space and stores your folders in the cloud as well as on your computers while Live Sync just syncs your computers. I would think that Microsoft would merge these two services eventually and take the stupid 20 folder limit away from sync providing a switch or something to sync to their Live Desktop in the cloud or not.
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