I have manage a network with 10 sites, about 3000 users. Windows 2003 R2 DC at each site. All in one domain. I’m using GP to redirect the “My Documents” folder to servers at the site at which they work. In other words everyone’s documents are stored on the DC located at the site they work at; thus, faster than pulling documents across slow WAN link.
I have had a problem where a user logs in and finds documents from other users (along with their own) in their My Documents folders. It doesn’t appear to be one specific location or user. It happens very rarely, considering the number of users, but has been brought to my attention several time. We hypothesized that maybe someone never logged out of their computer and another user worked on it. But this doesn’t seem to be probable for as many times as we’ve seen it.
Also, I’ve disallowed offline files at all my sites. (Most users are kids at school and wouldn’t allow folders to synchronize at logoff anyways). But I still see some machines trying to synchronize. IF they once had used offline folders, will they try to synchronize EVERY time until it’s successful?
Thanks.