Ack! accidental paste, my name is not Carlhttp. Still getting used to a laptop keyboard.
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SOLVED: Issues w/offline files on Vista SP1 and Office 2k7 SP1 I should have thought of this sooner - when first turning on encryption I got "some files were not encrypted" and no matter how many times I told it to encrypt again, it was never able to totally succeed. Carlhttp://www.google.com/search?q=windows+currentcontrolset+services+type From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SOLVED: Issues w/offline files on Vista SP1 and Office 2k7 SP1 Offline folder cache encryption was changed in Vista. In XP it was done using a machine cert, and that wasn't secure at all. In Vista this was changed to be encrypted using a user cert (so each user would have their own encrypted files). Now, I wonder why this behaviour is happening though. Cheers Ken From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 31 March 2008 5:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SOLVED: Issues w/offline files on Vista SP1 and Office 2k7 SP1 FYI, offline files were set to encrypted, and decrypting them solved all problems. Things below got even worse when I couldn't save any file to an offline folder that was in fact offline. I contemplated turning off offline files entirely, but decided to decrypt them first. Offhand, I'd say encrypting of offline files is badly broken in Vista SP1 but this is based on just one machine so far. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Issues w/offline files on Vista SP1 and Office 2k7 SP1 I'm trying to make the transition to year-old technology now that all have gotten to SP1, but running into a serious roadblock. At first I was operating with UAC enabled and then turned off UAC to see if that would fix it. The results were the same. My report below is from operating with UAC off and my domain user is a member of the local admins group. Vista Business, member of the domain, no other issues Home directory is on a Windows 2003 SP2 server, and is also a redirected "My documents" folder, available offline, and sync'd. I start Excel 2007 and open a file in the home directory. This file is owned by MYDOMAIN\myusername. I make no change and exit Excel. The file I just opened is now offline and not-synced. All other files the folder are online and synced. The file goes offline as soon as Excel opens it. It is the only file that is offline in the folder. If I make a change in Excel, it can't be saved to the same file. If (with Excel no longer running) I sync the now-offline file, it goes back online but now the owner is shown as "Administrators". That's the *local* administrators group. So I tried a .doc file and Word. I see the file go offline just the same when opened, but when I save it it comes back online and with the correct owner. So Word works, Excel doesn't. But there's another hitch. I can't re-sync either (Word or Excel) file previously messed with - it appears that the older offline file overwrites the newer online file, and then it says the sync failed. There's no similar trouble using Notepad to modify text files. I ran a 'sfc /scannow' and it reported that it "found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them" and referred me to a log file. I checked the log file, and it ends with "Verify and Repair Transaction completed. All files and registry keys listed in this transaction have been successfully repaired." Another wonderful Microsoft consistency of reporting. The only corrupt file talked about in the log was gpmc.chm. So I doubt that is causing these issues. So this may be an Office issue or an offline files issue, or both. My environment shouldn't be all that unusual but if everyone has this problem there should be an uproar and there's none that I can google. I'm up to date on all patches offered by Windows Update. Anyone else have the same or different behavior? thanks all... Carl ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
