disturbedone
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I'm trying to force offline files for laptops. I have 2x GPOs - one for computer and one for user.
With this configured files are not automatically available offline. The users' folders are redirected via another GPO to \\domain.com\users\users\%username%\ and this is configured in the user GPO under 'Specify administratively assigned offline files'.
When going to 'Sync Center' in Control Panel and clicking 'Manage Offline Files' it says 'Offline Files is currently disabled' and there is a button to 'Enable offline files'. Sure, if the user selects this then files are synced but they shouldn't have to do this - it should be automatic.
What's missing to automate this for the users?
After a LOT of Googling I finally came across this. Some call it a "bug", some call it a "feature". It has only just stopped working in build 1511.
It appears that 'Offline Files' is not the way to go. It looks like the way forward is with 'Work Folders' so I'll need to do some reading on that.
UPDATE: It doesn't look like this is the issue. The 'Continuous Availability' setting is on W2K12 but I've got W2K8R2. I've checked the shares anyway and the offline ability is enabled. The CA issue also says that offline files can't be enabled manually but I can do that - the issue is that I can't get it to enable automatically. The use of 'Work Folders' is quite different and would require some deep investigstation and configuration.
As 'Offline Files' works but only when enabled manually there appears to be a problem with the automatic configuration of this in Win10 (specifically I'm using 10586.494 - July 2016 update).
Anyone come across this issue and got 'Offline Files' working? Or have any thoughts?
With this configured files are not automatically available offline. The users' folders are redirected via another GPO to \\domain.com\users\users\%username%\ and this is configured in the user GPO under 'Specify administratively assigned offline files'.
When going to 'Sync Center' in Control Panel and clicking 'Manage Offline Files' it says 'Offline Files is currently disabled' and there is a button to 'Enable offline files'. Sure, if the user selects this then files are synced but they shouldn't have to do this - it should be automatic.
What's missing to automate this for the users?
After a LOT of Googling I finally came across this. Some call it a "bug", some call it a "feature". It has only just stopped working in build 1511.
It appears that 'Offline Files' is not the way to go. It looks like the way forward is with 'Work Folders' so I'll need to do some reading on that.
UPDATE: It doesn't look like this is the issue. The 'Continuous Availability' setting is on W2K12 but I've got W2K8R2. I've checked the shares anyway and the offline ability is enabled. The CA issue also says that offline files can't be enabled manually but I can do that - the issue is that I can't get it to enable automatically. The use of 'Work Folders' is quite different and would require some deep investigstation and configuration.
As 'Offline Files' works but only when enabled manually there appears to be a problem with the automatic configuration of this in Win10 (specifically I'm using 10586.494 - July 2016 update).
Anyone come across this issue and got 'Offline Files' working? Or have any thoughts?