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Do not automatically make redirected folders available offline, does that cause overhead?

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  • Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:34 PM
     
     
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    We had the "Do not automaticaly make redirected folders available offline" setting Enabled in User Config/Admin templates/Network/Offline files.  We want to turn it off, but not sure what the ramifications are.  We currently use roaming profiles, and those are deleted at logoff via another GPO setting.

    If we set this policy to disabled, I'm assuming all their icons will get the little offline logo put over every icon and when they log off they'll get a syncing files dialogue box now.  But since we delete the profile, does that mean every day it will pull down a local copy of all their redirected folders, which is probably a GB or more for some users who have redirected desktops, application data, my documents, etc?  or does it only make a local copy when you actually use a file rather than making a local copy of everything at login, which then gets deleted when the profile gets deleted every day?

     

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  • Friday, February 15, 2013 2:42 AM
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    Hi,

    Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet forums.

    There should be no problem if we disable this setting. If this setting is enabled, we might encounter some problem:

    You encounter a long logon time after you enable the "Do not automatically make redirected folders available offline" Group Policy setting in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2525332

    Here is an article which can help us understanding Folder Redirection and Offline Files:

    Folder Redirection, Offline Files, and Roaming User Profiles overview

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848267.aspx

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    Kevin

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  • Friday, February 15, 2013 8:43 AM
     
     
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    Thanks, I will take a look at the articles.  In the meantime, I set the pocliy to "Not Configured", and tried to log on once to a Win7 laptop with a user who has redirected desktop, application data, etc while on the network, that worked fine, but then when I tried to log on with the network cable unplugged, it logged on but it complained because it couldn't find the path to the redirected desktop.

    The policy we have in place currently is the same one we use for our XP desktops, perhaps Win7 needs a different redirection and offline files policy setup...

     
  • Friday, February 15, 2013 1:42 PM
     
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    Hey Kevin, in a follow-up to my reply, I found something interesting looking at the drive properties of the drive that has the shares for all the redirected folders on it.  Not sure if this could be causing my problem or not, what do you think?  It's a Server 2003 server.  The first picture is on the caching settings for the E drive of the server itself, the 2nd picture is the caching settings of the Users share we have, where each user has a subfolder under it, then within their individual folders, they have a folder for the redirected Desktop, Application Data, etc.

     
  • Monday, February 18, 2013 2:48 AM
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    Hi,

    Yes, this could be the cause of the problem. We could try changing this setting as a test.

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  • Monday, February 18, 2013 1:38 PM
     
     
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    OK.  I'll have to find some down time when I can try changing the setting.  I should only have to change it on the share itself, right?