OneNote 2007, Offline Files, and Redirected "My Documents" folder

[Sir_timbit]

Hi all,

Help, I've been reading the articles here and I'm still stuck on the proper
way to configure OneNote for use with offline files.

Here's my situation. I'm a tech looking after a school with 150 laptops for
student use. The laptops are identically imaged with XP Pro SP3, IE8, with
Office 2007 including OneNote 2007, and all current updates, patches, etc.
Students use the laptops in an all-wireless environment, and can also take
the laptops at home for the evening.

For the default profile (which is based on the local administrator's
profile), I've configured the "My Documents" folder to point to a network
share that only that user can access. So for example, instead of c:\Documents
and Settings\student, it points to h:\Students\%username%

I then enabled Windows Offline files, and then made the newly redirected "My
Documents" folder available offline. This seemed to do the trick, but as the
school year progressed we started having more problems with corrupted OneNote
notebooks, or notebooks that were accessible by other students. It was very
odd.

So my question is....how to you configure OneNote so that this works
properly? I'd like to have it so that if a student uses a different laptop
(which happens from time to time) that OneNote would access the copy on drive
H.

How do you configure the default profile so that the file locations all
point to each user's own folder on the server (which is also configured for
offline access for when they take it home.)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Sir_Timbit

 

[John Guin [msft]]

Check out David Rasmussen's blog about this situation:
http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmuss...oubleshooting-part-1-windows-file-shares.aspx

He addresses this situation in item 4.