I'm a sysadmin on a school network. Everyone has a roaming profile (My Documents is part of this, not a folder redirection) and all the teachers have their own laptops. When some teachers use their machines off site, their changes (rearranging folders, deleting files) are not being propogated to the server. I've tried setting the "synchronise on logon" in Group Policy, I've also tried various other items found on the web to no avail.

Is there some glaringly obvious setting I've missed in Group Policy/Active Directory that makes the local profile override the server copy? I know there's a "stop local changes propogating to the server" option, but I want the opposite!

Group policy settings only apply to overall function of offline files. The client has to set the offline files on the shares that it connects to. You could implement it through login scripts with a registry file. You could make regisry file that sets the settings for //server/profileshare to the settings you want and have a log in script apply it. The link below describes all of the functions of group policy and offline folders. My suggestion is to send an email to all the teachers and explain how to change the settings.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...

Thanks for the reply hollowman. The teachers don't have administrative rights so they wouldn't be able to run a registry file. Sending an email around looks like the only solution, I just need to make sure every single step is worded right for the technophobes!