Administrators can enable offline files feature for all the members in a domain by configuring group policy settings. Given below are steps to configure this. Open group policy object editor. (See How to Open group policy object editor ) Expand Computer Configuration node Expand Administrative templates node Expand Network Select offline files. Now in the [...]
Below is a question asked by a blog reader regarding recovering offline files from the d* directories. I am writing this as a separate post assuming that it will be useful to others also. “Is there a way to recover offline files without the original index database? Here’s the situation… we had a tech accidentally [...]
As mentioned in previous posts, offline files cache is stored in %systemdrive%windowscsc folder. This systemdrive is usually c: drive. Initially you may have enough free space on c: but as the system gets older you would have installed lots of new software and you may feel like freeing up the space on c: drive. In [...]
CSCCMD.exe is an useful tool to configure and control offline files operation. Various options available with this command are described below along with examples. Note that this tool works only on Windows XP & Server 2003 operating systems. It is not supported on Windows Vista and Windows 7. To check if Offline Files is enabled [...]
Registry keys related to offline files are explained below. DatabaseLocation DatabaseLocation is offline files related registry parameter and it exists under the following node. HKLM\Software\\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache This key contains the path of the folder where information about offline files is stored. Note that with the default settings you will not see the above key in the [...]
Windows enables users to redirect some of the user folders like My Documents, My pictures, My applications etc to network shares. Offline files is, by default, enabled for redirected folders. We do not need to explicitly mark them for offline availability. So when you redirect your My Documents folder to some network share and even [...]
We know that in order to use a network folder in offline mode, we need to mark that folder for offline cache by right clicking and then selecting “Make available offline”. But we can have few special folders which does not require this step and are still available offline. These files/folders are called administratively assigned [...]
How to Use/enable Offline Files?The first thing you need to do is to enable Offline Files feature on your machine. You should have administrator privileges to do this. Open My computer from start menu Click on Tools from the menu bar. Now select Folder options and then click on Offline Files tab in the Folder [...]
Administrators can disable Offline Files usage for all the members in a domain by configuring group policy settings. Steps for this are given below. Open group policy object editor. (To know how to open this read the post Opening group policy object editor in 2003 DC ) Expand Computer Configuration node Expand Administrative templates node [...]
Where is the offline files folder located? It’s normally in C:windowsCSC (this won’t be visible unless you enable view system files ) However offline files folder can be changed by modifying registry key. See next question for more details. My offline files folder is in c:windows. My c: drive has become full, I want to [...]
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