Berkson Wein
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Set Offline Files (CSC) to NOT sync by default - and allow user to override for specific folderr
Have a client with a Windows 2008 R2 domain (will likely be upgraded soon)
Mostly Windows 10 clients these days
Many users' laptops have pretty small SSD drives. Offline files work well, but drives but we don't have the luxury of having huge CSC limits.
I'd like to set a GPO (or local policy) on machines with small drives that will:
1) Keep offline files enabled but with
2) some magical setting that will have the system NOT make files/folders in network shares available offline unless
3) users (non admins) select specific folders to sync, space permitting
I know that we can set limits on the amount to use on a drive, and we have, but we'd like to let users determine which folders need syncing and which don't.
I know we can change a share or folder to not cache as an admin, but we're not monitoring every folder that a user creates.
For example:
If a user goes to \\server01\groupshare and visits \\server01\groupshare\clie ntdata and \\server01\groupshare\BobV acationPho tos, we want the user to be able to specifically say to cache the client info folder (because that's important and would be nice to have if there's space) and have the BobVacationPhotos, which contains 1500 personal vacation photos that were shared temporarily by a very excited employee, to NOT be cached by default (without the viewing user having to do anything).
And I'm not talking bout the "always available offline" flag, I'm talking about stopping the 1500 recently opened photos which where put in a folder that has caching enabled on the share NOT be cached unless the viewing users says to.
What we're seeing is that a user with 20gb of total cache space available to the system, might have work related documents cached. Then they at lunch they go through Bob's vacation photos, which are 40gb in total size. They then get on a plane and realize that the work documents aren't available, because they weren't opened as recently as the vacation photos from the network....
SO, in summary
1) Share set to allow caching
2) Users have to tell their system to cache specific folders or files (maybe even with the option to have subfolders follow the rule)
3) Unless the user specifies to cache, shares, when visited, will NOT cache.
I'm all ears if there's a better way!! (I know we could have a policy that says don't put your photos on share, but that's not the point here - there's other types of work related large document shares that people can put up on their own that shouldn't be cached by default, but some users might need specific files from those cached.
Thank you
Mostly Windows 10 clients these days
Many users' laptops have pretty small SSD drives. Offline files work well, but drives but we don't have the luxury of having huge CSC limits.
I'd like to set a GPO (or local policy) on machines with small drives that will:
1) Keep offline files enabled but with
2) some magical setting that will have the system NOT make files/folders in network shares available offline unless
3) users (non admins) select specific folders to sync, space permitting
I know that we can set limits on the amount to use on a drive, and we have, but we'd like to let users determine which folders need syncing and which don't.
I know we can change a share or folder to not cache as an admin, but we're not monitoring every folder that a user creates.
For example:
If a user goes to \\server01\groupshare and visits \\server01\groupshare\clie
And I'm not talking bout the "always available offline" flag, I'm talking about stopping the 1500 recently opened photos which where put in a folder that has caching enabled on the share NOT be cached unless the viewing users says to.
What we're seeing is that a user with 20gb of total cache space available to the system, might have work related documents cached. Then they at lunch they go through Bob's vacation photos, which are 40gb in total size. They then get on a plane and realize that the work documents aren't available, because they weren't opened as recently as the vacation photos from the network....
SO, in summary
1) Share set to allow caching
2) Users have to tell their system to cache specific folders or files (maybe even with the option to have subfolders follow the rule)
3) Unless the user specifies to cache, shares, when visited, will NOT cache.
I'm all ears if there's a better way!! (I know we could have a policy that says don't put your photos on share, but that's not the point here - there's other types of work related large document shares that people can put up on their own that shouldn't be cached by default, but some users might need specific files from those cached.
Thank you
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Work Folders sound like the way to go.
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