Remove Items To Synchronize In Synchronization Settings

[DaveP]

I have a situation which may take a little setting up, so please bear with me. We use Symantec Ghost to image/update our workstations and laptops. A little while ago the imaging server crashed taking the images with it (Why no backup I hear you cry: Well that's another issue for another day)

I am now recovering the lost images by taking stations, syspreping them and capturing the syspreped state. This works well except where a laptop is allocated to a specific member of staff. I cannot remove/delete the last owners' synchronization settings. Logged on as that user, logged on as domain administrator, logged on as laptop administrator. Nothing works.

I have thought of taking the tick out that says make availible off line, but it is greyed out. I have taken out the ticks in tools/folder options/Offline Files restarted logged on again and the re-enabled off line files: The old setting come back. I have even hunted down the registry keys and deleted them.

Upon restarting and logging on again the synchronize setting have been recreated. What else can I try?

Have you tried deleting all previous users and local profiles and disable offline files before the sysprep / create image task?

[Iain]

Try reinitializing the offline files cache, take a look at the bottom of:

Managing the Offline Files Folder

also make sure there aren't any administratively assigned offline files in any GPOs that are applied to the laptop.

Iain

[DaveP]

Try reinitializing the offline files cache, take a look at the bottom of:

Managing the Offline Files Folder

also make sure there aren't any administratively assigned offline files in any GPOs that are applied to the laptop.

Iain

Thanks Iain, it worked a treat.

[plexer]

The other way to reinitailise the cache is with a reg entry as indicated in this KB article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230738

Also the csccmd tool can be used to move shares and also delete them if you get the latest version.

Ben