Re: [ActiveDir] Folder Redirection & Offline Files

[CoCoKola]

No one else has this problem or some suggestions?

The recent question on offline files & Folder redirection reminded me of a related situation that I suspect others are dealing with:

 We have several users who wouldn't normally travel, so they are given desktops. Say this user does travel to a location that has typical T1 WAN connectivity back to the server where their "My Documents" are stored. They log onto another user's pc - twice. Upon the second logon, XP happily pulls their "MyDocs" across the WAN, causing the network folks to dislike XP. Since this happens before logon completes, a user with a large "MyDocs" ends up thinking the pc is hung, and they have no way to stop the process.

 If only Microsoft would provide a Group Policy to enable a "cancel" button or a button labeled "Click here if you are using this pc temporarily" while folder redirection is coping all their data when they log onto a pc. Even better would be to disable the local copying for future logins for that user.

 Does anyone have a solution for this? Some things we have come up with are:

* Identify folks who travel infrequently, make sure they have laptops ($$)

* Provide hotel pcs at each location that has offline files disabled for all users $$

* Write some sort of script that disables offline files whenever a user from another ad-site logs in. Problem is when the primary user logs back in, it may have to re-sync.

 Any thoughts?

 Thanks,

RP