MaxShadowCopies and Windows 7 client limits

I'm using Shadow Copies on my Windows 2008 R2 server to make snapshots of volumes that are presented to my Windows 7 clients as network shares. This has enabled my users to restore their own files in the event that make a mistake, overwrite or corrupt a file. I make three snapshots a day (6am, noon, 6pm) which has worked really well.

What I have discovered is that Shadow Copies only preserve the past 64 snapshots by default. For three snapshots a day, that's about three weeks worth of snapshots. I've looked adding the registry key MaxShadowCopies to increase the number of Shadow Copies. From what I've read, this works fine on the server side but there is a problem with clients.

The downside of this is that Windows 7 only displays the first 64 Shadow Copies made. Thus, if I set MaxShadowCopies to 100, the first (aka oldest) 64 will be visible to the Windows 7 client but the other 36 (ie, the newest) will not be visible at all. This would be fine if it was the newest 64 but the oldest 64 is not feasible.

I've read (http://www.thatcouldbeaproblem.com/?tag=maxshadowcopies) that you can disable SMB2 on the server and the clients will see all the Shadow Copies but I'm not so keen on that idea since I'm not sure what the impact on my clients will be since they transfer large files back and forth to the server frequently.

Has anyone dealt with this issue and come up with a good solution?