Folder Redirection and Offline Files Long Login times

[Mr.Ben]

So it seems I have come up againt my first major stumbling block with W7.

 

I have an OU, Roaming Laptops which allows offline files to sync the redirected folders.

 

This means that staff (when away from the school) have a full copy of their Documents available.

 

This worked fine in my initial tests, however when I put 4GB of files into the folders the machines take 20+ minutes to log on, hanging at 'Applying Folder Redirection Policy'. There is a lot of disk activity going on as well as network activity, so I assume that a sync is occuring.

 

The users only experience this when logging onto a 'Roaming machine'.

 

Anyone got any ideas on how to stop this?

 

Thanks in advance!

Edited April 28, 2011 by Mr.Ben

[Iain.Faulkner]

I've got exactly the same issue! Driving me round the bend!!

[ZeroHour]

Just to confirm, the share that the redirection points to is enabled for offline files?

[Mr.Ben]

Hi Zero Hour,

 

The share has 'Only the files and programs that users specify are available offline'

 

Then I adminstratively assign the folders to be cached through a gpo and also take away the ability for users to assign there own folders.

 

This worked and logon times are acceptable (30-40 seconds) during my intial testing, however I only tested it with 10 files!

[Mr.Ben]

Solved: False Alarm on the being flummoxed - My Google Fu was failing me:

 

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

 

This hotfix does the trick!

[ZeroHour]

Solved: False Alarm on the being flummoxed - My Google Fu was failing me:

 

You encounter a long logon time after you enable the &#34Do not automatically make redirected folders available offline&#34 Group Policy setting in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2

 

This hotfix does the trick!

 

Cool, add that into the http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/47835-windows-7-gotchas-tips-fyi.html if you have a chance.

[Mr.Ben]

Added to the Gotchas list!

[Iain.Faulkner]

Solved: False Alarm on the being flummoxed - My Google Fu was failing me:

 

You encounter a long logon time after you enable the &#34Do not automatically make redirected folders available offline&#34 Group Policy setting in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2

 

This hotfix does the trick!

 

Just tried it on one of our laptops, login time reduced from 10-15 minutes (yes it was that bad!) to under a minute! If I could thank you a 100 times for this then I would :-)