Disable Offline Files

Am trying to devise a package to push to W2K (fully-patched) workstations
that will disable Offline Files (in Windows Explorer, Tools - Folder
Options - Offline Files tab - uncheck Enable Offline Files). It turns out
that it is not an easy, quick reghack. Additionally, we "lock down" our
users, users are USERS and not administrator-equivalent. We are using
client 4.91 with mixed SP1 and SP2. We use ZEN 3.2 SP3. Server is NetWare
6.5 SP?
The following regkeys are part of the disabling process:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Applets\SysTray]
"Services"=dword:00000017
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\NetCache]
"DefCacheSize"=dword:00000415
"Enabled"=dword:00000000
However, just using those keys don't disable the feature (if you enter
these, it doesn't disable the function - the function stays retained).
I found the following additional information:
C:\Winnt\CSC is a hidden directory, and when you Enable Offline Files, 2
"system" files are created (if they didn't exist) - 00000001 and 00000002.
You can delete 00000002 anytime, but not 00000001 unless you disable
Offline Files. You can not delete 00000001 unless you disable Offline Files.
I can easily push out a reghack for just about any other program with no
issues, but this is something else (and, nevertheless, frustrating).
Problem: Just inserting the regkeys manually, clicking on the REG file, or
pushing the keys via ZEN, does NOT disable the Offline Files option.
QUESTION: Has anyone used ZEN to successfully push out a method to disable
Offline Files, and if yes, what is needed to disable that functionality?
Thank you.

Use a Group Policy:
\Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\Offline Files\Allow
or Disallow use of the Offline Files feature
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> Am trying to devise a package to push to W2K (fully-patched) workstations
> that will disable Offline Files (in Windows Explorer, Tools - Folder
> Options - Offline Files tab - uncheck Enable Offline Files). It turns out
> that it is not an easy, quick reghack. Additionally, we "lock down" our
> users, users are USERS and not administrator-equivalent. We are using
> client 4.91 with mixed SP1 and SP2. We use ZEN 3.2 SP3. Server is
> NetWare
> 6.5 SP?
>
> The following regkeys are part of the disabling process:
>
> **************************************
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Applets\SysTray]
> "Services"=dword:00000017
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\NetCache]
> "DefCacheSize"=dword:00000415
> "Enabled"=dword:00000000
>
> **************************************
>
> However, just using those keys don't disable the feature (if you enter
> these, it doesn't disable the function - the function stays retained).
>
> I found the following additional information:
>
> C:\Winnt\CSC is a hidden directory, and when you Enable Offline Files, 2
> "system" files are created (if they didn't exist) - 00000001 and 00000002.
> You can delete 00000002 anytime, but not 00000001 unless you disable
> Offline Files. You can not delete 00000001 unless you disable Offline
> Files.
>
> I can easily push out a reghack for just about any other program with no
> issues, but this is something else (and, nevertheless, frustrating).
>
> Problem: Just inserting the regkeys manually, clicking on the REG file, or
> pushing the keys via ZEN, does NOT disable the Offline Files option.
>
> QUESTION: Has anyone used ZEN to successfully push out a method to disable
> Offline Files, and if yes, what is needed to disable that functionality?
>
> Thank you.
>
>

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(Sorry for my bad English)

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Is there any chance someone's going to be able to help me with this? I've currently spent £500 on a box that I can't use. If it can't handle Offline Files satisfactorily, it's no use to us.
I've been looking at this a bit more - if appears that each user can make files they have created available offline, but files created by other people cannot - the error message that appears is: "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process".
I'm getting desperate here...can anyone help?
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Sorry, but I don1 speak very good english..
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If I connect to any other FTP server, sometimes requieres from me ftp login and password. It is OK, but if I assign login and password, after connect me to this FTP server, i see folders and files on this server, but without reason connecting fall down.
Few seconds later if I connect to the to same FTP server, sometime either not request login and password and connection fall down.

Offline Files and DFS-R (Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2)

Hey,
We are planning to migrate from full roaming profiles to folder redirection instead.
I am testing this at the moment and one thing that's happening is we're getting Sync Errors on the clients. The weird thing is that the errors come from folders that aren't even available offline (set on the Caching tab within the Advanced Sharing
tab on the server).
So the only folder available for Offline use is:
\\corp.domain.com\dfsnamespace\Users
But the sync errors are reporting these:
\\corp.domain.com\dfsnamespace\Public\Templates\...
\\corp.domain.com\dfsnamespace\Public\Resources\...
etc. The Details column shows 'The request is not supported.'
So it seems it's trying to sync any folder in the dfs root folder (\\corp.domain.com\dfsnamespace\*). And I assume 'the request is not supported' error comes up because the folder is not actually available for offline use.
How do I stop this?

Hi,
Do you configure “Always available offline” on the clients? If so, disable it to check if the issue still exists. The Offline Files feature must be enabled on the client computer for files and programs to be automatically cached. Additionally, the
Optimized for performance option does not have any effect on client computers using Windows Vista or newer.
For more detailed information, please refer to the articles below:
Working with network files when you are offline
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/working-with-network-files-offline#1TC=windows-7
Configure Offline Availability for a Shared Folder
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755136.aspx
Best Regards,
Mandy
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