Re: Offline Files Group Policy Issue

From: Bruce Sanderson (bsanders_at_junk.junk)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:34:04 -0800

Unfortunatly, you've closed the barn door after the horse escaped!

Any folders that are already marked "make available offline" are not
affected when you enable the "Do not automatically..." setting.

See
Computer Configuration
   Administrative Templates
      Network
         Offline Files
            Allow or Disallow use of the Offline Files feature: Disabled 

-- 
Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing
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It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
"Sandy Wood" <sandy.wood@nospam.com> wrote in message 
news:CAA3E725-CEE3-4986-960D-2349A879BC71@microsoft.com...
> We recently started re-directing our user's My Documents to a home 
> directory
> share on our Windows 2000 file server. All users have Windows XP Pro. We
> noticed that initially, all users were synchronizing their My Documents 
> and
> as we did not want this, we enabled a GPO to 'Do not automatically make
> redirected folders available offline'. We've noticed that many users are
> still getting the 'Synchronizing' display at logoff and are apparently 
> still
> synchronizing their folders. The shares on our Windows 2000 file server 
> are
> set to allow Manual Synchronizing. I'm wondering if we need to visit each
> machine now and un-check the offline files option? Or, is there another 
> GPO
> setting I need to add or consider?
> -- 
> Sandy Wood
> Orange County District Attorney

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