Staff Domain Laptops: Folder redirection, offline files home use

[haggistheoriginal]

Hi All

 

I have been searching around quite a bit for an answer to this one

 

I have a simple Server 2008 R2 Domain I took over this network about 2 years ago and while I have been able to improve most areas of the school's IT the one bit that causes me the most stress is when staff take laptops home

 

Now so far I have Staff as their normal domain accounts non local admin, obviously when they go home there are certain things that are network only disappear (icons on desktop) get the temporary profile warning and cant save things like favourites

 

Do I have offline folders for Staff laptops and folder redirection for all computers and laptops that stay in school

 

What have some of you done with this in your environments

 

I am just not sure how to proceed to make things better

 

Any help greatly appreciated

 

Dave (Haggis)

[Steve21]

Once you enabled offline files "don't" specify what folders you want syncing and it'll automatically sync all redirected areas. e.g. Start Menu/Desktop/N Drive etc.

 

Shared drives won't, but any GPO redirected will

 

Think that's where a lot go wrong as by saying they want N:\ for example, it won't sync redirects as you never told it to

 

Steve

[haggistheoriginal]

Hi Steve,

 

Thanks for that. I will give just pure offline files a go. I didn't know what the relationship was between the Offline and folder redirection and it was causing some stress!

 

The PC's and Laptops that stay in school, pure folder redirection works as expected its just the offline users that cause the stress

 

Thanks for your help

 

Haggis

[Joanne]

Just to note - I've got 2 members of staff who have 128GB SSDs in their laptops and you have to watch out for offline files taking up all the hard drive space!

[Michael]

The other thing to check is whether Offline Files has been disabled on your Icon distribution share. By default it's on, but if it's been turned off previously, then it'll still fail even with the Offline Files service enabled.