Hi All,
Thank you in advance for any responses, we would appreciate any assistance! In any case, here is the issue we are experiencing. We have DirectAccess setup and working using ForeFront UAG without any issues. On all of our laptop clients we have folder redirection (and thus offline files setup). Our problem is as follows. BEFORE we had direct access if a user was off the network, they simply worked with their offline files cache and synced when they came back into the office or logged into the VPN. This was great because the performance for accessing their redirected My Documents was great when they were in the office and great when they were out of the office. Unfortunately, with DirectAccess, whenever you are online, you are on the VPN and thus their laptops are trying to use the redirected My Documents location on the server and NOT the locally cached copy. Performance is fairly terrible when they do this, causing lengthy wait times to save a file or 'not responding' applications while it is saving.
To try to 'get around' this issue and force clients whenever they are not in the main office or any of the branch offices to use the offline cache, we have been experimenting with the 'Configure slow-link mode' GPO. However, this policy isn't exactly resolution we were hoping for. We have tried setting it to a variety of options but none seem to work (it is currently set to Value Name = "*" Value = "Throughput=11534336, Latency=20"). The problem this policy seems to create is that while what we currently have set DOES appear to mostly keep the machine in "offline" mode while you are on the guest network, if you connect to the corporate wireless network and do a largish (200MB or so) file copy in My Documents, this causes you to get pushed back "offline" despite being on the corporate wireless network. Even further, once the transfer is finished even though it is supposed to check every 1 minute to see if it is in slow link mode, it sometimes takes 30-35 minutes after it was moved to "offline" mode to determine that it is "online".
So, is there a way that we can set the a GPO to make the laptop client determine if it is working with its My Documents offline or online based on something that is more "consistent" than throughput or latency, like say what IP address it has or subnet that it is in? Basically we just want it to be like this: if you are in the corporate office or any of the branch offices (wired connection OR wireless connection) you are working in "online" mode with the redirected My Documents. If you are outside the corporate office and using Direct Access, you are operating in "offline" mode. Is this possible?
Please let me know if you require any additional information/details/clarification and I would be happy to provide it! Thanks!