Re: Offline files in a 2000 AD
From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 11/27/03
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:56:03 -0500
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wrote:
> I have some Windows XP laptop users who log into a Windows
> 2000 AD domain. My customer wants the XP laptop users to
> use offline files to make their home drive available when
> they are away from the office. Fair enough.
>
> The real problem is that the customer has recently
> introduced a new premises, which is in its own AD site,
> with its own DC. The link between the sites is slow (1MB,
> but quite well used), so they want laptop users visiting
> the new site to use their cached copies of their homedrives
> rather than hitting the WAN with file requests. Again, not
> an unreasonable request.
>
> My issue is that I cannot find any simple way of doing
> this. In a lab, the home drive is always mapped, no matter
> at which site the laptop is connected. I am aware that:
>
> 1 - There is a "slow link" detection process that *should*
> detect a slow link and not connect offline folders to the
> server, but this doesn't work properly
> (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811525)
>
> 2 - There is no Group Policy item in Windows 2000 AD that
> addresses this "slow link" parameter (although I believe it
> may exist in 2003), so I can't administer it from the AD
> even if it did work properly.
>
> 3 - There is a cmscmd command-line utility to force offline
> files to go offline, but this is only in XP (2000 Pro
> doesn't have it).
>
> My current plan is to use Group Policy applied at AD site
> level to run a login script that will call the cmscmd
> utility. I will use group policy filtering (modify the
> "Apply" rights on the GPO) so that only the appropriate
> users get it.
>
> I can't believe that this is such a complex issue - does
> anyone have a straightforward solution? Am I missing
> something obvious? Surely people must have wanted to do
> this before Windows 2003/XP?
>
> Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
>
> Barnski.
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