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How to move Redirected Folders with Offline Files from UNC to DFS share

We want to move to a new file server. We are using Folder Redirection and Offline Files. I figured it would be best if we moved from a straight UNC path to a DFS name path as we have multiple file servers in our network and it would be nice to see…
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Is Background Intelligent Transfer Service responsible for Client Side Caching in Windows 7?

I'm reading documentation about Configuring Offline Files and it keeps mentioning a background sync service, but doesn't tell you what it is called!!! Is the service called Background Intelligent Transfer Service? It's the closest thing I could…
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While using Offline Files users cannot rename files when changing case only

I recently setup some new computers (running Win8.1) for the staff here. These machines use folder redirection (as we always have) with Offline Files sync. I have not traditionally used Offline Files but I've turned it on to give a bit of extra…
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How do I recover files from the Offline Files Folder after unjoining a PC from a domain?

While on the domain, the PC had Folder Redirection and Offline Files enabled. After it was unjoined, My Documents is empty, but all of the files that were previously synced to My Documents are stuck in the Offline Files Folder. I've attempted to…
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How activate Offlines files windows server 2008 r2 to use with IIS Shared Configuration?

I need to activate the Offline Files on my web server. This solution is for solve trouble with IIS shared configuration. There is the reason why I need to activate the Offline…
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Remote VPN User - Domain Credentials

Morning, We have a client who uses a Windows 7 laptop and connects remotely to an SBS2011 network via VPN that terminates at a Watchguard device. This is a recent upgrade, the server was SBS2003 and the clients laptop was XP but the Watchguard has…
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Windows 2008 R2 Offline Files via command line

I would like to enabled Offline Files on my Windows 2008 computer so I can access a remote share even when it is gone. Is there a way I can configure this via command line, rather than going through the SyncCenter GUI?
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Can't resolve offline file conflicts

We use roaming profiles on our Server 2008 R2 domain, with folder redirection for 'desktop', 'my documents' and 'application data'. But as our network is split across two sites, we have one file server at each site, which are configured to use…
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Disable 'Offline Files' in XP without VNC/Remote Desktop

A bunch of my XP users now have offline files enabled for their My Documents folder. 1) Is there any way I can turn this off without having to go to each user's Desktop, or VNC in? 2) How might have this become enabled? I did set the My Documents…
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Offline Files sync not working, desktop items have a gray 'X' over them - Surface Pro 4, Win10 Pro x64

I've rolled out a Folder Redirection/Offline Files GPO as of Monday and it's (mostly) been smooth. I deployed it at our other 2 "remote" sites that are connected to us via MPLS first and not a single blip at either one. I setup Desktop, Documents…
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Backup Exec - Restoring Offline Files Cache

We have a set of mobile users who use Windows XP SP3 offline files to synchronize changes between network shares and their laptops. We recently had an incident where a user's offline cache was not synchronizing and several weeks worth of changes…
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Turning off Offline Files & Folders for a roaming profile share

Here at work we have roaming profiles on one share, and redirected folders on another share. When we configured these shares we did not know that you shouldn't enable the option ""All files and programs that users open from the share will be…
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Has anyone used WMI_OfflineFilesCache::RenameItem to rename offline files?

The reason I ask is that I have been researching how to rename items once an offline files target has been changed. It seems that so far there are two options: CSCCMD.exe - Which appears to be a legacy utility from XP WMI - The method I chose to go…
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How to clear the Offline Files cache on Windows XP

We had a server rename/migration and I was using the Offline Files feature on Windows XP SP2. Every so often, my "Offline Files Status" icon appears in my Taskbar and let's me know that the old server is "Offline: Unavailable to reconnect". I have…
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Offline Folders, and Redirected Folders - Laptop cannot start up when disconnected from the network

I have rolled out Redirected Folders to a number of users to test, and everything seemed fine, until I noticed a laptop that was not connected to the network attempting to log on, and everything froze up. I am assuming this is because of the lack of…
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