I recently took over managing a small office network (which I didn't set up) that includes a few laptops on a Server 2003 domain. The laptops automatically mount a user folder off of a Server 2003 fileserver on login to a domain account and are configured to have the folder made available for offline use for when the users are out of the office.
On XP, this worked more or less flawlessly, and how you would expect--files synced and were always available consistently for offline use.
Except I recently replaced one of the old laptops with a Win 7 laptop, and have had nothing but problems with Sync Center. I set up the folder in question to sync appropriately and be available offline, which worked fine. (Unlike what seems like a lot of people, I am NOT seeing the problem where the "Always available offline" menu item does not appear.)
However... when the user creates new files/folders, or saves files from Outlook that were emailed to him, some significant percentage of the time they default to NOT be available offline. This is, understandably, maddening for the user, because he'll get home and discover that he can't access the file he just created earlier in the day.
The files can individually be set to be available offline by right-clicking and selecting the option for each, but I can't seem to findany way via Win2K3 Domain policy or Win7 client setting to get this to default toon for everything in the folder, like it did with XP.
Is there some way to do this? Why is this not a problem for more people?