Configuring Offline Files

Offline files provide automatic synchronization between files stored on a server and those stored on a laptop or other portable computing device. This provides a high level of robustness for the user, and also solves the backup problem of critical files. Additionally, it gives the user the chance to check-in and to work with files. There is only one instance of the offline files cache, accessed via the offline files applet from Control Panel; this is shown in Figure 11-1. But there are a number of WMI classes supported by the WMI provider; they are imaginatively named the OfflineFilesWmiProvider.

The offline cache location on the fixed local disk.

Figure 11-1. The offline ...

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