Windows 7 Greyed Out/Missing Documents

Folder redirection and offline files?

Wehave been having an issue where users on Windows 7 computers will suddenly have their desktop icons become greyed out and have an "X" appear in the lower right-hand corner of each one. Their documents also disappear from their "My Documents" folder.Even when using theFile Explorer to drive directly to the affect user's files on the file server from the affected user login and computer shows that they have all disappeared. With-in ten minutes or a restart, the documents reappear and everything is fine again.This issue appears to strike at random with no computers being invulnerable to it (Even here in the IT department the issue has happened a couple of times).Since all of our users have redirected desktop and document folders, I assume this has something to do with the computer losing its connection to the file server where the...
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