Offline Files & disabling My Docs subfolders

[Jovah]

One of our employees uses offline files to sync his My Docs folder from a network share (H:\username) to his laptop & this works fairly well. The problem is that he has several PST & database files that cannot sync & generate error messages every time. He'd like to exclude certain subfolders from Offline File sync but that option is greyed out for all subfolders. For folders other than My Docs, he can deselect subfolders at will. Is there a way to fix this? I've pored over our Group Policy settings but have found nothing that changes this behavior...

Matt

 

[Jovah]

I know I can get around this by setting his My Docs to a different folder and/or moving the non-syncing files elsewhere, but I'd prefer to find a way to deselect sub folders in My Docs...

Thanks,

Matt

 

[Jovah]

Aha, I think I just found the answer. This setting became the default w/ Windows XP:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/xpusrdat.mspx

Redirected Folders Automatically Made Available Offline

By default in Windows XP, any redirected shell folders such as My Documents, Desktop, Start Menu, and Application Data are automatically made available offline. This is in contrast to Windows 2000, where to ensure all files in the redirected folders were always available offline an administrator had to configure the “Administratively assigned offline files” policy setting. This setting was difficult to use with advanced folder redirection, and involved extra administrative overhead.

The default behavior can be overridden by enabling the “Do not automatically make redirected folders available offline” policy. This setting can be found in the Group Policy Editor in the User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\Offline Files section.