As annoying as the old balloon messages "you're now working offline" etc. However his laptop was stolen around christmas time from our own office amazingly , of course the damn thing wasn't syncing correctly when he was in the office. He lost a few excel spreadsheets that he deemed important. Now i have turned off offline files for him on his computer and make him use the vpn when he travels. I appreciate everyone chiming in to confirm that it does suck, but I have to admit that I was really hoping someone had a magic bullet for this.
Anyone else want to weigh in? We're willing to spend money if the software does what we want - particularly keeping mapped drives available seamlessly. Also I'd like to avoid a solution that takes files off of our system ie.
From what I can tell poking around those links that's what those are. Thanks for the input though :. If mapped drives for remote users is your only concern, just use a VPN client.
We use Greenbow client with a batch script that runs on connect to set the DNS server for the client. That, or RDP into a terminal server. Those are the best options i know of to keep your files in one location. Even with offline files, you have a CSC and if it was built by a human, one can break it and get the files. The laptop users do utilize a VPN when they have an Internet connection, and we've just recently gone to a WAN optimization solution to help to make it more feasible to do the kind of work they do engineering over that connection Details required :.
Cancel Submit. Azeez N. Sync Center is used to manage your Offline Files from your network. The ability to use Offline Files is enabled by default in Windows 7, but can be disabled. NOTE: This will restart the computer immediately. Be sure to save anything that you have open first.
If you enabled Offline Files, then all you need to do now is to make the network files or network folders you want always available offline. Prepare a shared folder and make sure Everyone have at least Read permission. CreateObject "WScript. Make sure to put the startupscript. Quit the Group Policy Editor. Then the startup script will run to apply the registry change the next time your workstations reboot.
Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? SQL Server. Sign in. United States English. Further clarification: 1. Yes, previously I was able to keep files in sync. I don't know when it stopped, although the Sync Center et al were reporting a last succesful sync date back in September. Security software: yes.
Non-MS sync software: no. Since this seems to have been going back quite a ways, yes, there have been changes, but I have no idea what they were -- probably quite a few by now! Also, there are no options available for resolving the sync conflict within the Sync Center, just the message in the properties "Unable to sync at this time.
I tried following the troubleshooting methods doing a clean boot, and still the same result. One puzzle I'm working through -- even trying to do the clean boot from the KB article you linked, I'm still getting programs starting up that I deselected. Which is weird, but after killing all non-MS processes, and verifying no non-MS services are running, still the same result. Thanks, -Tim K. In reply to timkjr's post on February 12, Hi, 1.
Did you try to restart the computer and try to sync the files? Did you try in a new user account? Run the system file checker SFC scan to fix the corrupt system files. Thanks, Syed Microsoft answers support engineer. In reply to Waseemulla Shariff's post on February 12, Further update: 1. Yes, I restarted a number of times, and had the same result: "Unable to sync at this time. Yes, I tried a new user account, and had the same result: "Unable to sync at this time.
I created a brand-new account, and had the same results. In reply to timkjr's post on February 13,
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