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Web-Junkie · 22-04-2011, 23:16

Just had some new Dell laptops delivered to my workplace with Vista Home Basic so we PXE booted a pre loaded Win7 Pro image we made onto them which already has all the software we use in the image and set it up as we would our XP machines, put it on the domain and tried to get offline files working but it's changed from XP!!

Anyone have experience with this as we've never setup a win7 machine and thought it would be straight forward, yeah right! We created a new user and test GPO with just the desktop redirected to a share on the server (Server 2008 R2) in the User Config part of the GPO, exactly the same settings as our XP GPOs and when connected to the network the files get redirected to the server correctly, but when offline it doesn't find the desktop and throws up the 'not available blah blah' error! Apparently 'Make available offline' is always enabled by default in Win7 Pro, but to be sure we enabled an option in the User config\AdminTemplate\network\offline files part of the GPO, but still won't find the desktop offline! Strangely, if you type the UNC of the share offline, it finds the share, user folder and the desktop folder with all the files?

We use the redirect like thus: \\share\commonfolder\%username% so all users get their own folder created in the 'commonfolder' of the share! Reading a few forums it seems Win7 doesn't like the %username% variable, but we tried with an absolute path and it did the same! Even trying the 'Sync All' option in Sync Center didn't work, in so much as the desktop is still missing and causes an error when offline!

Anyone have a clue, as we don't?

22-04-2011, 23:16	#1
Web-Junkie Inactive Join Date: Aug 2004 Services: 30mb BB Posts: 1,556	Problem Configuring Offline Files in Windows 7 Pro! Just had some new Dell laptops delivered to my workplace with Vista Home Basic so we PXE booted a pre loaded Win7 Pro image we made onto them which already has all the software we use in the image and set it up as we would our XP machines, put it on the domain and tried to get offline files working but it's changed from XP!! Anyone have experience with this as we've never setup a win7 machine and thought it would be straight forward, yeah right! We created a new user and test GPO with just the desktop redirected to a share on the server (Server 2008 R2) in the User Config part of the GPO, exactly the same settings as our XP GPOs and when connected to the network the files get redirected to the server correctly, but when offline it doesn't find the desktop and throws up the 'not available blah blah' error! Apparently 'Make available offline' is always enabled by default in Win7 Pro, but to be sure we enabled an option in the User config\AdminTemplate\network\offline files part of the GPO, but still won't find the desktop offline! Strangely, if you type the UNC of the share offline, it finds the share, user folder and the desktop folder with all the files? We use the redirect like thus: \\share\commonfolder\%username% so all users get their own folder created in the 'commonfolder' of the share! Reading a few forums it seems Win7 doesn't like the %username% variable, but we tried with an absolute path and it did the same! Even trying the 'Sync All' option in Sync Center didn't work, in so much as the desktop is still missing and causes an error when offline! Anyone have a clue, as we don't?