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Hi all I'm gonna to scream in a minute but i cant quite fathom whats occurin' with this one. Difficult to explain this one without giving some insight as to what we have setup so here we go: With our computer replacement scheme, and some long hours by me, we've got a Windows 7 deployment system setup, along with a DFS Storage Share where the win7 roaming profiles and redirected folders point to (which as far as i can see / tested / used, is working a treat). However, user naturally have to use shared documents on older storage systems - think the big old EMC Celera's type NAS systems - as this is a gradual process at the moment. We've discovered, quite annoyingly, that users are getting a very strange issue when they access files on shared documents of these other storage systems that arent the roaming profile store. For example, Word 2010 seems to create a .tmp file when the user uses a document from this shared area (permissions shouldnt be a problem as on this particular folder on this share, as 'Everyone' is set with Full Control), he's able to edit the document as normal, but when he saves it, it doesnt save it in the UNC path, although transparent to the user, it has, but it seems to have only saved it in the user's cache on his machine, and this .tmp file gets left in the UNC location. Seemingly, this is Windows automatically caching files that the user uses on the network, however, I dont recall asking windows to do this, so is this "by design" and is there a way to turn it off so that only the roaming profile / redirected folders does it, and not every file on a share that the user connects with? To note, I did try using the GPO setting "Prohibit 'Make Availabe Offline' for these files and folders" and removing the CSC etc etc, which after sorting out the users' profile, didnt seem to have the files re-cache, and I was hoping that this would help prevent it from happening but no dice unfortunately As the description of that GP setting shows, it seems very much a GUI / prevent users from manually choosing to do it etc. Cant seem to find any [obvious] setting to prevent windows from doing this.... just wondered if anyone has any ideas on this as this obviously is pretty rubbish and delaying me from finalising our new deployment of win7 etc, along with the few users that are piloting it at the moment. Many thanks for anyone that can help with this one or has ideas on it Nath.

hi Was wondering if there is a piece of software similar to the apple caching server. where it doesn't use proxies but uses the public IP address to cache content. The reason I am asking is because I would love to be able to cache some of the youtube videos that the student play to take some load off our firewall decrypting the videos. If anyone has any software or know of any then could you please help. Thanks Nathan

Dear all, Can anyone recommend a good caching and filtering system? We currently use RM Smart Cache and it is just awful. I am looking to change to something else that actually works! I have used Smoothwall School Guardian in the past which I liked. However I am not sure if they do caching or just filtering. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

I work at an overseas school with limited internet bandwidth trying to support an exponential increase in IOS devices etc! I currently use an equiinet CachePilot to mirror the EducationCity.com website which make it usable, but I'd like to get rid of the CachePilot and put a Linux based squid proxy in place to cache IOS/OSX Apps and updates (I've found a solution), however I am finding it difficult to find a Linux same box solution for mirroring the EducationCity.com website. I am unable to use the Apple Caching Server as a solution for the Apps/updates as it will only Cache Apps/updates for for Apple ID's that are registered in the same country as the caching server is hosted. Any suggestions? Steve