Force sync of network folder

Question

_{Monday, January 29, 2018 7:45 PM}

I have a network that I have to connect to manually via Cisco's VPN client, at which point the network drive mounted on Windows becomes available. However, "Always available offline" isn't showing up for anything on this drive but I feel it should be possible via a registry hack or something.

Thanks!

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_{Monday, January 29, 2018 8:15 PM | 1 vote}

Hi Akababa,

there might be a Group Policy setting that prevents Offline Files from being enabled. The Group Policy setting that controls this is:

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\Offline Files\Enable

To see if this Group Policy setting is applied, run Gpresult.exe in verbose mode on the client computer. Look at the output of this tool and compare its output to the following sample:

KeyName: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\NetCache

ValueName: **del.Enabled

ValueType: REG_SZ

Value:

If the output of Gpresult.exe on your client contains this text, this Group Policy setting is applied and you have disabled Offline Files. In this case, it is not possible to enable Offline Files until this Group Policy setting is changed.

Regards

Simon

_{Tuesday, January 30, 2018 7:27 AM}

Hi,

Please try the following configuration through Group Policy:

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\Offline Files

Configure Background Sync = Enable

Exclude files from being cached = Disable
Enable Transparent Caching = Disable

For detail information, we could visit: Configuring New Offline Files Features for Windows 7 Computers Step-by-Step Guide (It should apply to Windows 10)

I would be very appreciate if you could feedback any result of action.

Bests,

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