Thanks Scott. The only GP setting I found that I thought might help is "Do not automatically make redirected folders available offline", with details shown in this link - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc759721(v=ws.10).aspx
We have it disabled, but it's not helping. I'm trying to get the sync-center partnership on the local pc rebuilt automatically without having the user do anything after logon. More details from the link above are below: By default, makes all redirected shell folders, such as My Documents, Desktop, Start Menu, and Application Data, are available offline. This setting allows you to change this behavior so that redirected shell folders are not automatically available for offline use. However, users can still choose to make files and folders available offline. Do not enable this setting unless you are certain that users do not need access to all of their redirected files in the event that the network or the server holding the redirected files becomes unavailable. This setting does not prevent files from being automatically cached if the network share is configured for automatic caching, nor does it affect the availability of the Make Available Offline menu option in the user interface. Don K From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2014 1:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Can sync center be re-initialized automatically on Windows 7 after a user mgiration? Don't have it in front of me, but group policy has a setting for pinning files to be always available offline. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kuhlman, Donald Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 4:06 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] Can sync center be re-initialized automatically on Windows 7 after a user mgiration? Hey folks. I'm working on a user data migration from Windows 2003 fileservers to 2012 R2 file servers for Windows 7 clients. We're using a pretty standard process for the backend migration. 1) Copy the user's data from old server to new server. 2) Set/verify perms and ownership on the files on new server. 3) Chang the user's AD profile to point their H: drive to the %homedrive% environment variable. 4) Logoff/Login We've enabled Offline Caching on the new server for each user's directory. We are using a "My documents" redirection GP to point their docs to the H: drive. The issue I'm seeing is where if the user had "Always available offline" set so that they would get any offline files synched back to the server when they re-connected, it's off after we move their profile and they log back on. It looks like the sync partnership from sync center on the machine is out of date with the old server's settings. Does anyone know of a way to automatically re-create the sync partnership on a user by user or computer by computer basis after this type of migration without the user having to right click and choose the "Always available offline" setting, or by manually going to sync center to set things back up ? Thanks, Don K
