limit offline files

[Guest John]

What is the recommended practice for allowing offline files from a shared

file server? I have one user that has huge amounts of data set to be

available offline and I suspect this could be a problem. Is my suspicion

warranted? I think if everyone was doing it it would be even worse so why

allow one to do it...

 

client xp pro sp3

server 2003 r2 latest sp...

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: limit offline files

 

John <jadams@nospam.nospam> wrote:

> What is the recommended practice for allowing offline files from a

> shared file server? I have one user that has huge amounts of data

> set to be available offline and I suspect this could be a problem. Is my

> suspicion warranted? I think if everyone was doing it it would

> be even worse so why allow one to do it...

>

> client xp pro sp3

> server 2003 r2 latest sp...

 

I personally don't enable offline files for LAN connected users at all. I

don't see the point, and I *have* seen people lose data using offline files

in the past (particularly large amounts) when they worked offline on

laptops, even. I am not a fan of the feature and won't use it anymore.

 

That said, many people do use it successfully. My question for your company

would be along the lines of, "What is the reason you want it enabled?"

[Guest David Shen [MSFT]]

RE: limit offline files

 

Hello John,

 

Thanks for posting here.

 

Actually, we don't recommend you make large amount of network share data

set to be available offline on the client side.

 

If the target network share is too large in size, it will make the client

computer take a long time for the Client-Side-Caching engine to see the

network as available and attempt to synchronize data next time the network

share is changed.

 

There is no limit on the number of files in offline cache. However, the

offline files cache size cannot be bigger than 2 GB on the client side.

This 2 GB limit applies to only temporarily cached files, which means those

cached files that have not been explicitly "made available offline".

 

Hope it helps.

 

David Shen

Microsoft Online Partner Support

[Guest David Shen [MSFT]]

RE: limit offline files

 

Hi,

 

I am just writing to see how everything is going. If you have any updates

or need any further assistance on this issue, please feel free to let me

know. I am glad to be of assistance.

 

David Shen

Microsoft Online Partner Support