I have problems similar to whats documented in:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2002109, but I have dell servers running server 2003/2008. What causes this. It seems like all I get is conflicts and errors with offline files since we have had vista and 7 pro clients. MS needs to really look into this. I have struggled with this for a long time. I have tried pairing vista 7 clients with 2008 severs and get the same conflicts. I have also tried to exclude tmp files from being cached. This breaks saving Office files to the location all together.Any offline files experts out there that have cracked this nut? Thanks for your time

I had similar issue but it was little different... Issue was, Word 2010 would create a .tmp file when the user uses a document from a shared drive; he/she's able to edit the document as normal, but when he/she saves it, it doesnt save it in the UNC path, although transparent to the user, but it occurs to have only saved it in the user's cache on his/her machine, and multiple .tmp file gets accumulated in the UNC location. Found some solution after searching on the web, however don't remeber the URL where I found a solution. However, I had saved the details on my laptop Posting the details below, not sure whether it would help in your case ! The quick fix to completely disable Offline Files was to set both the (Client Side Caching) CSC service & CSC driver to 'Disabled'. ;======================================== ; Disable Offline Files (CSC driver + CSCService) ;======================================== ; Disable Offline Files Driver - CSC [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\CSC] "Start"=dword:00000004 ; Disable Offline Files Service - CSCService [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\CscService] "Start"=dword:00000004 Before you disable the service, you might also want to look at clearing the Offline Files cache (C:\Windows\CSC\ folder) otherwise it will use up a bit of disk space. Set this key, then reboot. The FormatDatabase key is deleted & the cache should be emptied. ;- Requires Offline Files is enabled (otherwise the key doesn't get deleted) and then requires a reboot. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\CSC\Parameters] "FormatDatabase"=dword:00000001 Thanks, Santosh (MCTS W2K8 AD and SCCM) “ To Infinity and Beyond…