We recently decommissioned a server, but a number of XP machines are still 
trying to synch files with it using the Offline Files feature.

I found this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230738

But on the SP3 machines we've checked, there is no "Offline Files" tab under 
Folder Options. Besides, we have too many machines doing this for us to 
manually go around to each one.

Anyone know of a way to clear this up en masse (group policy, login script, 
etc.)?

This appears to be unique to XP; offline files don't behave the same way with 
Vista. With XP, every time any user logs in or out, the machine tries to synch 
offline files for any user who has ever logged into that machine (even if the 
current user has no offline files). And if it hits an error-which it always 
will, because it's trying to synch with a server that no longer exists-the 
machine will hang on shutdown until the user clicks a button.



John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
www.taylor.k12.fl.us<http://www.taylor.k12.fl.us>


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