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AD00000136
Posts:0
 | | 09/20/2005 8:12 AM |
| The recent question on offline files & Folder redirection reminded me of a related situation that I suspect others are dealing with:
We have several users who wouldn't normally travel, so they are given desktops. Say this user does travel to a location that has typical T1 WAN connectivity back to the server where their "My Documents" are stored. They log onto another user's pc - twice. Upon the second logon, XP happily pulls their "MyDocs" across the WAN, causing the network folks to dislike XP. Since this happens before logon completes, a user with a large "MyDocs" ends up thinking the pc is hung, and they have no way to stop the process.
If only Microsoft would provide a Group Policy to enable a "cancel" button or a button labeled "Click here if you are using this pc temporarily" while folder redirection is coping all their data when they log onto a pc. Even better would be to disable the local copying for future logins for that user.
Does anyone have a solution for this? Some things we have come up with are:
* Identify folks who travel infrequently, make sure they have laptops ($$)
* Provide hotel pcs at each location that has offline files disabled for all users $$
* Write some sort of script that disables offline files whenever a user from another ad-site logs in. Problem is when the primary user logs back in, it may have to re-sync.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
RP | | | |
| robertpresson
Posts:0
| | 09/28/2005 6:40 AM |
| The recent question on offline files & Folder redirection reminded me of a related situation that I suspect others are dealing with:
We have several users who wouldn't normally travel, so they are given desktops. Say this user does travel to a location that has typical T1 WAN connectivity back to the server where their "My Documents" are stored. They log onto another user's pc - twice. Upon the second logon, XP happily pulls their "MyDocs" across the WAN, causing the network folks to dislike XP. Since this happens before logon completes, a user with a large "MyDocs" ends up thinking the pc is hung, and they have no way to stop the process.
If only Microsoft would provide a Group Policy to enable a "cancel" button or a button labeled "Click here if you are using this pc temporarily" while folder redirection is coping all their data when they log onto a pc. Even better would be to disable the local copying for future logins for that user.
Does anyone have a solution for this? Some things we have come up with are:
* Identify folks who travel infrequently, make sure they have laptops ($$)
* Provide hotel pcs at each location that has offline files disabled for all users $$
* Write some sort of script that disables offline files whenever a user from another ad-site logs in. Problem is when the primary user logs back in, it may have to re-sync.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
RP | | | |
| jpsalemi
Posts:0
| | 09/28/2005 7:28 AM |
| Well, using offline files on desktops is really not worth the hassles..On
laptops it's more than handy, on desktops, no real value we've found. So,
you could just have a policy that does turn it off for desktops, if the
machines they log into are desktops.
But....
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811660 has the
following, which may help
Prevent admin pinning of files for non-primary users
A user who has been assigned offline files for administrative purposes
caches content on every computer the user logs on to. This scenario may
cause unwanted content to be cached on some computers. To prevent this
scenario, this hotfix introduces a modification to the processing of admin
pinning. With this hotfix, admin pinning does not override the primary
user list that is described in the "Purge files for non-primary users at
logoff" section. If the current user is not in the primary users list,
per-user admin pinning will not occur for that user on the current
computer. To prevent per-user admin pinning for non-primary users, follow
these steps:
1.
Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2.
Locate and click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache
3.
Click Edit, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4.
Type AdminPinForPrimaryUsersOnly, and then press ENTER to name the
value.
5.
Double-click AdminPinForPrimaryUsersOnly.
6.
In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
John
CoCoKola
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No one else has this problem or some suggestions?
The recent question on offline files & Folder redirection reminded me of
a related situation that I suspect others are dealing with:
We have several users who wouldn't normally travel, so they are given
desktops. Say this user does travel to a location that has typical T1 WAN
connectivity back to the server where their "My Documents" are stored.
They log onto another user's pc - twice. Upon the second logon, XP
happily pulls their "MyDocs" across the WAN, causing the network folks to
dislike XP. Since this happens before logon completes, a user with a
large "MyDocs" ends up thinking the pc is hung, and they have no way to
stop the process.
If only Microsoft would provide a Group Policy to enable a "cancel"
button or a button labeled "Click here if you are using this pc
temporarily" while folder redirection is coping all their data when they
log onto a pc. Even better would be to disable the local copying for
future logins for that user.
Does anyone have a solution for this? Some things we have come up with
are:
* Identify folks who travel infrequently, make sure they have laptops
($$)
* Provide hotel pcs at each location that has offline files disabled for
all users $$
* Write some sort of script that disables offline files whenever a user
from another ad-site logs in. Problem is when the primary user logs back
in, it may have to re-sync.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
RP
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| | 09/28/2005 10:48 AM |
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From: ActiveDir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of CoCoKola
Sent: Thu 29/09/2005 4:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Folder Redirection & Offline Files
No one else has this problem or some suggestions?
The recent question on offline files & Folder redirection reminded me of a related situation that I suspect others are dealing with:
We have several users who wouldn't normally travel, so they are given desktops. Say this user does travel to a location that has typical T1 WAN connectivity back to the server where their "My Documents" are stored. They log onto another user's pc - twice. Upon the second logon, XP happily pulls their "MyDocs" across the WAN, causing the network folks to dislike XP. Since this happens before logon completes, a user with a large "MyDocs" ends up thinking the pc is hung, and they have no way to stop the process.
If only Microsoft would provide a Group Policy to enable a "cancel" button or a button labeled "Click here if you are using this pc temporarily" while folder redirection is coping all their data when they log onto a pc. Even better would be to disable the local copying for future logins for that user.
Does anyone have a solution for this? Some things we have come up with are:
* Identify folks who travel infrequently, make sure they have laptops ($$)
* Provide hotel pcs at each location that has offline files disabled for all users $$
* Write some sort of script that disables offline files whenever a user from another ad-site logs in. Problem is when the primary user logs back in, it may have to re-sync.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
RP
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