You are right. No...file redirection and offline file sharing are 2 different tasks. As a matter of fact, at my organization, I have offline file sharing disabled for everyone BUT my laptop users, but everyone still has folder redirection (i.e. My Documents). It works fine. Shane M. Williford Systems Administrator MCSE, MCSA Sec, Sec+, Net+, A+ Mazuma Credit Union 9300 Troost Kansas City, MO 64131 shane.williford@xxxxxxxxxx 816-361-4194 x6012 -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of prankmonkey Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:34 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Folder redirection and offline files relationship Apologies for the confusion. I should probably clarify. I understand how offline files and folder redirection work. However, for instance we redirect Application Data. When the user is on the network, any application trying to write to the %APPDATA% environment variable say during installation will get written to the network location and not C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data. As far as I understand, if a user disconnects from the network, the folders are in offline mode and applications trying to write to the Application Data folder are held in the offline files cache. Once it reconnects to the network the synchronization manager attempts to sync the files that are in the cache with the redirected folder. Essentially, if we turn off offline files, then (I assume) we have to turn off folder redirection for those users? -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shane Williford Sent: Friday, 30 May 2008 11:35 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Folder redirection and offline files relationship Prankmonkey, Your question is a tad confusing, but let me give it a shot... Yes, by default, if you set folder redirection, offline file/synchronization occurs as well. If you have Offline Files enabled, synchronization will occur when a user logs off/shuts down their laptop and that places (yes) a copy of folders & files locally on their system. Once re-connected to the network, synchronization will reoccur and any file/folder modifications made locally will be updated on the network. So yes, the only way the network file would get updated is for the user to reconnect to the network. Shane M. Williford Systems Administrator MCSE, MCSA Sec, Sec+, Net+, A+ Mazuma Credit Union 9300 Troost Kansas City, MO 64131 shane.williford@xxxxxxxxxx 816-361-4194 x6012 -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of prankmonkey Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 8:27 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Folder redirection and offline files relationship We currently have offline files enabled for our laptop fleet and we also utilise folder redirection, redirection My Documents and (ahem) Application Data. It is my understanding that once folder redirection is enabled then those folders that are redirected are set to synchronize. If we turn off offline files how does folder redirection work if the user is offline? In other words, if they are not connected to the network, yet we have offline files enabled do the files simply stay on the local system and never get synchronised or ....? *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************ *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************ *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************ *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************