Hello, I am testing out Folder redirection and I am running into a very strange issue when Windows 7 detects a slow link, logs it in the event viewer but the files stay online and opening anything is painfully slow over a VPN. Occasionally the files will actually go offline but nothing different is log in the event viewer. Here it what is being detected in the event viewer This is logged every 2 minutes. Information 7/1/2012 11:05:12 AM OfflineFiles 1004 None Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-OfflineFiles/Operational Source: Microsoft-Windows-OfflineFiles Date: 7/1/2012 11:05:12 AM Event ID: 1004 Task Category: None Level: Information Keywords: Online/offline transitions User: domain\user Computer: HP Description: Path \\storage1\Redirect transitioned to slow link with latency = 30 and bandwidth = 0 Here are the relevant settings in GP Network/Offline Files Policy Setting Comment Configure Background Sync Enabled Configure background sync: Sync Interval (minutes) 360 Sync Variance (minutes) 60 Maximum Allowed Time Without A Sync (minutes) 0 Blockout Start Time (HHMM) 0 HHMM is a value where HH must be between 0 and 24, and MM must be between 0 and 59. Blockout Duration (minutes) 0 Enable Background Sync for shares in user selected "Work Offline" mode Disabled Policy Setting Comment Configure Slow link speed Enabled Value entered is [ bps / 100 ] --> Example: 128,000bps, enter 1280 Value: 10000000 Policy Setting Comment Configure slow-link mode Enabled UNC Paths: \\storage1\Redirect Latency=20 Policy Setting Comment Enable Transparent Caching Enabled Enter the network latency value above which network files will be temporarily cached on the client. Enter network latency value in milliseconds 60 Policy Setting Comment Subfolders always available offline Enabled Ensures all subfolders are available offline when a folder is made available for offline use. Policy Setting Comment Synchronize all offline files when logging on Disabled I am running Windows 7 Pro SP1 and the Domain is 2003 and the files server is Windows Storage server 2003 R2. Thanks

No one has ever seen this issue?

Hi, When you access that folder you configured Slow Link mode, Can you see the Work Online button on the toolbar of Explorer? Or you get a Work Offline button rather than Online? If you get a Work Online button, this means you already went into Slow Link Mode. Juke Chou TechNet Community Support

Hi, When you access that folder you configured Slow Link mode, Can you see the Work Online button on the toolbar of Explorer? Or you get a Work Offline button rather than Online? If you get a Work Online button, this means you already went into Slow Link Mode. Juke Chou TechNet Community Support