Are these offline file administratively assigned, and has that list been updated? My guess is yes to the former, no to the latter based on the fact that users couldn't modify offline files. Of course, I could be talking out of my hat, because I'm out of my experience base. I stamped out Offline Files here a while ago. The previous admin was in love with it, me not so much, and it caused some problems for a number of our applications.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:25 PM, John Hornbuckle < [email protected]> wrote: > One thing I should add… I’m not looking to disable offline files. We’re > still using that feature—just with a different server. So I need XP to stop > trying to synch with the old server that no longer exists (or to at least > stop fussing that it can’t reach that server)… > > > > > > > > *From:* John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:16 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Offline Files Question > > > > Crap… Just realized I had applied those policies at a higher level than I > meant to. So they were applying to everyone, rather than just a specific > subset of users who need offline files. Gotta fix that. > > > > > > > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:05 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Offline Files Question > > > > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc759721.aspx > > > > Per the article, the behavior you're describing looks like you've disabled > user configuration of offline files, but haven't disabled offline files. > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:01 PM, John Hornbuckle < > [email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
