I signed up just to thank AlexB for the FSRM suggestion, I have 1200 users and was battling this desktop.ini problem by running scrips that created dummy desktop.ini files in folders all over the network, then other scripts that blocked "read" permission to them for "everyone." This was working until offline file synchronization (6 months later) started throwing synch errors for everyone trying to synch their (now access denied) desktop.ini files. I searched everywhere 6 months ago and this is the only place that a file screen was suggested, it is definitely the way to go, simpler, easier, will work for future user/folder creation, and allows for synching to work without error. I'm still surprised that we have to find work arounds for this and there's no official solution.
Thanks again, -KH
