Mike,
I did not find an equivalent post from you yet on the Inventor forum (
http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=78).
To help you out without losing to much time, here is some insight on what you might want to do. Use local desktop content when on the road and use ADMS when plugged in the network. This switch can be set in the Application Options on the Content Center tab. One big caveat though: when you create content on the road, you will be creating files on his local drive that are duplicates of files that exist on the server.
But once again, try
http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=78 , there are a ton of savvy Inventor users out there that will give you even more valuable advise on Inevntor specific functionality.
Bob
Inventor Product Support Technical Lead
Bob Van der Donck
Principal UX designer DMG group