Provision offline files in Windows 8.x

Hi there,
I stumbled across a problem. I want to make certain folders offline available for all users. For this I am using the Group Policy setting "Administratively assigned offline files" under "Administrative Templates / Network / Offline Files". Unfortunately,
both, the user part setting and the computer part setting, do not work.
All paths are specified as UNC paths in the "name" column of the provided table in the Group Policy Editor.
Any suggestions, how to get this working?
----------------------- Greetings from Germany, Martin

Hi,
I made a test in our testing enviroment. It works fine when enable this policy. Both my test account could access Offline Files.
Therefore, please check your group policy setting. Make sure sharing folder path correct.
Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->Network->Offline Files
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

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Hi,
Please know that Offline Files in Windows 7 uses Bitmap Differential Transfer. Bitmap Differential Transfer tracks which blocks of a file in the local cache are modified while you are working offline and then sends only those blocks to the server. In Windows
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How the synchronization in Windows 7 Offline Files works
http://blogs.technet.com/b/netro/archive/2010/04/09/how-the-synchronization-in-windows-7-offline-files-works.aspx
That should be the cause of the issue that your script didn't work.
Considering that the issue should be related to the script, I suggest to post the question on Script Center forum for further help.
Script Center forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/home
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CariocaDaGema wrote:
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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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Hi,
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Hi,
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Repair Office 2010.
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Traverse Folder/Execute File
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I'm using the offline files feature in Win7 (much better implementation, btw - kudos!) and I've run into a problem: the CSC is using up all the drive space on C:\. I'd like to move the CSC to D:\, however I've been unable to do so.
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Are there any other ways of doing this?
Thanks!

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1) reset the content of the old cache by adding the following command in a batch file and running it (of course you can add the parameter in the registry manually, but it's quite handy to have the batch ready whenever you need to reset the cache):
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Type: REG SZ (string)
Name: CacheLocation
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5) Reboot (not sure if it's necessary, but better safe than sorry)
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EDIT: if you sync a lot of files and get a lot of errors, try to reset your offline files again following the above procedure (steps 1-2), disable offline files, reboot, enable offline files, reboot, and resync your files. Again, it worked for me...

Problem to make able Offline File Windows 7

Hi, I need your help to solve this problem whit the offline files.
This is the step-by-step of what i done:
I opened the control panel in windows 7
I Clicked on the sync center icon
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I Clicked on the enable offline files button
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Hi,
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Hi,
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/bbf5890c-b3d7-4b38-83d8-d9a5e025fb2b/how-to-move-clientside-caching-to-a-new-location?forum=w7itproinstall
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<offline>
     <winDir>
          <path>C:\Windows</path>
          <path>D:\Windows</path>
          <path>E:\</path>
     </winDir>
     <failOnMultipleWinDir>1</failOnMultipleWinDir>
</offline>
You can also refer t othe details at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824880.aspx
Regards
Wade Liu
TechNet Community Support

"Windows could not start the offline files service on local computer. Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified"

Using Windows 8.1 Pro on Toshiba Satellite i7 Laptop with 8Gb Ram
After upgrade from Windows 8 Pro to 8.1 Pro, the Offline Files/CSC service refuses to start and gives the error message:
"Windows could not start the offline files service on local computer. Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified"
Before the upgrade, offline files worked fine... how do I re-enable offline files?

I had a similar issue - couldn't make any files available offline.
I found that the offline folder service would not start
This was because the CSC permission were totally screwed. I had to take ownership of each folder and file, one by one, then grant everyone full access.
then delete the full contents of the CSC folder
format the CSC database using the registry fix then reboot
in control panel, disable the offline files, reboot, then re-enable. and now its working :)
2hrs to resolve this, with grateful thanks to this thread and some others.
damn windows8

Offline file issues with windows 8.1 not responding

Hi,
I am trying to make a teachers home folder available offline so the teacher can access his work at home. I am using windows 8.1, and offline files is enabled. When I select the folder to make it available offline nothing happens, usually it should go through
a process of making the folder available offline.
Any help or advice will be helpful
Thanks in advance

Hi,
Please check the offline setting in Sync Center first.
Open Control Panel, then type offline in
search bar and press Enter.
Make sure Offline file is enabled.
Also you can try to use a little txt file for test if it could be offline access.
If problem persists, please check Event Viewer if it identify this problem.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

Windows Offline Files / Sync Center - 99GB?? bug?

Currently have a laptop connected to a domain where the user's My Documents folder is set up in Sync Center... while the laptop is on the network everything is fine and dandy, however once the user disconnects a good portion of the files and folder show
a gray X indicating that they haven't sync'd over a local copy. When going into the 'Disk usage' tab for Sync Center, everything shows as 99GB used, 99GB available and the drive size is 999GB. If I do a manual sync I see that it fails due to not enough offline
cache space. Attempts to change it with the 'Change size' button have failed as nothing shows up when I click on that button. Free disk space shows up as roughly 24GB free and Windows Scan Disk reveals nothing wrong with the drive. Help!

Hi,
Did this issue occur before ? Did the machines in the domain share the same issue with you?
1.If the issue occured occasionally, I recommend you to manually re-initialize the offline files database/client-side cache following this link:
How to re-initialize the offline files cache and database in Windows XP (Win7 takes with the same path)
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/230738?wa=wsignin1.0
2.This issue may be caused by the group policy,please check the following policies according to the path.If you have no permission to change the policies ,please contact with your administrator.
Here is the policies path:
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\Offline Files
Limit disk space used by off line files
Default cache size
Prohibit user configuration of Offline files
Here is the link for reference:
Fixing OffLine File Cache Problems Using Group Policy
http://www.falconitservices.com/support/KB/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=158 (link from official website would be better)
NOTE: This response contains a reference to a third party World Wide Web site. Microsoft is providing this information as a convenience to you. Microsoft does not control these sites and has not tested any software or information found on these sites.
3.If the issue persists, please check the Event Viewer for related error information.
This path may be helpful:
Event Viewer \Applications and Services\Microsoft\Windows\Offline Files
Best regards

Provision offline files in Windows 8.x

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