A university would not. An organization that is supporting Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) cannot.
On 7/1/2013 11:44 AM, Coy Hile wrote: > Wouldn't most organizations disable these defaults via a global GPO? > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] on behalf of Jeffrey Altman > Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 4:09 PM > To: OpenAFS > Subject: [OpenAFS] Windows 8.1, SkyDrive and Roaming Profiles > > Last Wednesday Microsoft released the one and only preview release of > Windows 8.1 in conjunction with the Microsoft Build conference which I > attended. The one big change relating to file systems is the > integration of SkyDrive into the Shell and its selection as the primary > storage location for end user documents. > > The SkyDrive integration adds shell recognition for files that are > located in the locally sync'd copy of the SkyDrive directory tree but > which have not been copied locally. Microsoft now represents these > files with a new Reparse Point (Tag: 0x80000015) which is a "sparse > file" and an "offline" file. The file will not be visible to > applications that browse the directory from the command line but will be > displayed in the Explorer Shell and Modern application views of the > SkyDrive directory. > > The SkyDrive folder tree is stored in the user's profile at > \Users\<username>\SkyDrive. When the profile is on NTFS this works > fine. When the roaming profile is stored in AFS this is going to cause > problems because at logout an error will be generated when attempts are > made to copy this new reparse point to AFS. > > I urge organizations to begin testing Windows 8.1 Preview immediately > and to file bug reports with Microsoft as soon as possible. This is a > feature that will not be altered once Windows 8.1 RTM is cut. It is > critical that Microsoft hear about issues that will effect their > customers while there is time to make adjustments. > > Jeffrey Altman > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info >
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