Hello,

We are using Group Policy Preferences to map a drive for our users.  Windows 8 users who make this drive, or some of the files\folders in it, 'Always available offline' are finding that the network drive disappears completely if they do an offline reboot.

Windows 7 users are fine - their drive\files\folders continue to be visible and available even after an offline reboot.

Our domain is Windows 2008 R2.

I've had a look around for suggested solutions to this issue.  So far I've tried re-initialising the offline file cache and ensuring that hotfix 2795944 is installed on the Windows 8 machines as these seemed to fix similar issues for other people.  However, neither have worked for me. 

Can anyone suggest anything else that might solve this issue please?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Ros

Hi,

Please modify the following registry for test.

Warning: please backup the key first when you make any change to your registry.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"EnableLinkedConnections"=dword:00000001

If the issue persists, try to uncheck the option "Reconnect" in Group Policy.

Hi Roger,

Thanks for your reply, but I'm afraid your suggestion hasn't worked.

I added that DWord value ([HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"EnableLinkedConnections"=dword:00000001) into the registry and rebooted while connected to our network.  When I logged back on, I'd lost my network mapping completely.  I ran a gpupdate /force to reapply the group policy.  When I logged back on, the drive mapping was back but incorrectly - it was mapped to the root of the 'Users' directory on the file server instead of users\username as it should be.

I deleted the registry key, rebooted and my drive mapping was back to users\username as expected.  However, it still loses the mapping as soon as I do an offline reboot.

The 'Reconnect' option is not checked in our Group Policy.

Ros

Hi,

We are having the same issue, did you ever manage to fix this?

Thanks!

Same problem here ! 

Microsoft released a hotfix for Windows 8 and put it into the February rollup update for 8.1.

The fix corrects how Windows 8/8.1 works with the enabledlinkedconnections reg key.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878604

• Proposed as answer by Phage_dfu 14 hours 46 minutes ago

Microsoft released a hotfix for Windows 8 and put it into the February rollup update for 8.1.

The fix corrects how Windows 8/8.1 works with the enabledlinkedconnections reg key.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878604

• Proposed as answer by Phage_dfu Friday, March 28, 2014 8:03 PM