AD, GPO and excluded file list not working

[Greg]

Hello,

I have been banging my head on this issue for
several months now.

I have one area in my environment that has students using
a Windows XP
Professional computer lab for MS Office and other products
training.

All systems are in a single Active Directory domain. The
users and systems
are in their own OU.

I created a policy that provides support for various
applications and
settings (some security, some for other things).

These students are training on applications that use the
MS Access
extensions. The students are not always at the same
machine and I have
several classes throughout the day with different students
in each class.

This coupled with other factors has led me to decide on
Offline Folders and
Folder Redirection for this group of users.

Everthing works great except for the files with MS Access
extensions. I have
enable the Computer Configuration / Administrative
Templates / Network /
Offline Files/ Files not cached in the GPO with entries of
exclusions from
the Offline Folders synchronization process (yes, the MS
Access extensions
are NOT included in the list) and have ensured by time
and manually running
GPO updates from the desktop systems that the policy is
propagated.

Upon logoff, the synchronization process occurs as
expected EXCEPT the MS
Access extensions are excluded.

What am I doing wrong? Why will it not synchronize when it
appears
everything is configured "correctly"?

Please help

Greg

 

[Chriss3]

Greg, Can't remember but I think you should set the policy setting to
disabled. Have you seen:

Error Message: Files of This Type Cannot Be Made Available Offline:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;252509

 

[Guest]

Chris,

Yes, I have sen that article and some others. This is
where I obtained the information to change the list of
excluded files. As I understand it (so far) if it ain't in
the exclusion list it gets synchronized (supposedly).
Everything else is working, but this one file type.

Argh! I neglected to mention that there are GPO's at the
domain level and GPO's on some OU's (including the
Students OU that I am fighting with).

Could the GPO's at the domain level be overriding the OU
GPO's? I thought the order of processing for GPO's was
site, domain, then OU.

Greg

 

[Chriss3]

Greg , inline answers!

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Regards
Christoffer Andersson

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Chris,

Yes, I have sen that article and some others. This is
where I obtained the information to change the list of
excluded files. As I understand it (so far) if it ain't in
the exclusion list it gets synchronized (supposedly).
Everything else is working, but this one file type.

Argh! I neglected to mention that there are GPO's at the
domain level and GPO's on some OU's (including the
Students OU that I am fighting with).

Could the GPO's at the domain level be overriding the OU
GPO's? I thought the order of processing for GPO's was
site, domain, then OU.

[Christoffer Andersson] if the policy option no override is set at i higher
level object i suspose. Use the command-line based tool gpresult to find out
how your policys applices to the particular computer.