Windows 10: Sync Center and Network Drives 2021

I ma using FolderRedirection GPO on a Windows Server 2019 Standard, most of our client computers are Windows 10, we have a few that are Windows 8.1.


Some client computers of users who use heavily network drives which are provided by a centralized QNAP Linux-based NAS are experiencing the following:


I found this on another locked thread

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/sync-center-and-network-drives/6b22ff59-0687-4092-bd9c-e3f29353541a

"I have been having a strange problem where Sync Center seems to be storing network drives as offline folders.

Even though I am connected to the network all the time and the network drives never go offline they still become unavailable.

The network drive appears in the sync partnerships but I have not set these up and have been unable to remove them even when turning offline files off and back on again.

The only Sync which should be there is the folder for eel1651 the rest are network drives which it should not be trying to Sync. It is causing files to become unavailable even when I am currently working on them, so I can't save them..."


I am using "net use" as netlogon scripts to mount different shares from the NAS, I mount them as a drive "P:\," but two of our sever users needs to constantly access one of the shares in that NAS. Every few days sometimes only hours the Sync Center adds that drive as a sync partnership and it renders the P:\ drive useless since it only lets the user see very few files.

I tried enabling the "Remove "Make Available Offline" for these files and folders" from the FolderRedirection GPO adding every NAS Shared folder, I also tried the 'Remove "Make Available Offline" command" from the same GPO to no avail, it keeps coming back.


Every few days sometimes hours, I have remote-in, disable the "Offline Files," restart, the login as Administrator, browse to 'C:\Windows\CSC', play around for a while with the permissions, and remove the additional namespace "\\10.0.0.66\Legal" and then I log out, go back to the user to whom this is happening to, re-enabled "Offline Files" and then when I restart ut is gone.


And, it comes back later, for the user that was having the same issue, somehow it just did not happen again after resetting his Windows back to default, then it just stopped. But, with this other user, I already reset the computer back to default twice, and the issue keeps coming back.


Please help...

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Sync Center and mapped network drives

I have seen a few posts for this already, but none seem to cover my problem and none of the solutions - save disabling all Offline Files has resolved.

My current setup is as follows:

Server environment:

Windows 2016 Domain

Group policy configured for 3 mapped drives to separate NAS device

Group policy configured for roaming profiles to server folder

Group policy configured for folder redirection for local folders (documents and pictures folders) to server folder

NOTE: We are a small organization, so group policy applies to all users.

User Environment:

Windows 10 Build 1903 - fully patched

All computers are laptops of identical make/model

My problem:

My problem seems to be somewhat random in nature. Our employees work both onsite and remotely. From either local or remote locations, when trying to access a mapped network drive, there will either be no files shown or only a few files/folders shown.
This problem can also come and go, meaning sometimes, when you access these mapped folders, they work just fine and other times they do not.

Things I have done so far:

1. From within the Sync Center, I have deleted folders/files listed in the Mapped Network Drive section of this tool

2. I have issued the following registry command to rebuild the database Sync Center (reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Csc\Parameters /v FormatDatabase /t REG_DWORD /d 1)

I have had some success with both of the options above on some PCs, but this is still a problem on others and will re-appear on PCs which have had the changes applied. Additionally, there are users who have not exhibited any problems whatsoever with mapped
drives.

I apologize for the vague nature of this request, however, I wanted to see if there were some other suggestions I have not tried.

 

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