Offline Files

At the lab I work at here on the MSU campus we replaced our main server with a new one from Dell. I set this second one up as a domain controller, like the first it will run Windows Server 2003 Standard. After setting up the server as a domain controller, it had a copy of the group objects. I then installed the DNS server software and configured a forward and reverse zone. I then had to set it as the new Global Catalog server (Administrative Tools --> Active Directory Sites and Services --> Sites --> Default-First-Site --> Server --> I then shut down the old server and rebooted all of the client workstations. The workstations all came backup, received IP addresses (DHCP), group policies and logged into the domain just fine. After the desktop loaded though, in the notification area, was a little computer icon about offline files needing to synchronize with the old server. It took me a while to figure out how to correct this problem since you have to go two different places to fix it. First, Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> Synchronize. Here uncheck the old server folders that were marked for offline files. Then click Synchronize. Now double-click on the computer icon in the notification area, click settings, then delete, select the second combo box to delete the temp offline files, click OK. It should delete the files. Now here is perhaps a bug with the Windows offline file sync. If you click close and close the synchronization window the computer still thinks that it has files to sync with the old server. So what I did is uncheck the "Use Offline Files", then click Apply, then check "Use Offline Files", then click Apply. That made the little computer icon in the notification window go away and now the computer doesn't want to sync files with the old server anymore. That only took 1/2 a day to figure out! :-)