Can't stop Syncrososing of folders after removing policy

[Kyle]

I had a policy set in GPO to sync users files on log off and on for laptop users. I have moved away from this with a couple of users and removed the users and laptop s to 2 completely different OU's. but the files keep increasing, I have done a GP Update Force, rebooted thee laptops and still it synchronizes.

 

Have i missed something here? How do i stop this?

[joe90bass]

Not sure how you've got your user areas setup. On the share tab you can prevent the folders being cached offline, if each user area is shared should be a case of job done, if it's the folder above that's shared I'll pass that over to someone else for suggestions!!

[Iain]

If you just changed the GPO setting Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Network/Offline Files/Synchronize all offline files before logging off/on to disabled, this doesn't actually switch offline files off, it just causes the Synchronization Manager to performm a quick synchronization instead of a full one.

 

To completely disable the offline files feature you need to set Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Network/Offline Files/Allow or Disallow use of the Offline Files feature to disabled.

 

You could also try reinitializing the offline files cache on the laptops, take a look at the bottom of:

 

Managing the Offline Files Folder or at How to re-initialize the offline files cache and database

 

Hope that is of some help,

 

Iain.

[Kyle]

Thanks Iain I will try that