Article 288991 Redirected Folders won't allow offline folders

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I'm having trouble with Article ID: 288991
"Enabling the administrator to have access to redirected folders"

The process works fine with one exception. The users can not make their
redirected folders go offline to the CSC (Client Side Cache) folder.
Therefore if the server is down, the user will lose access to their
redirected folders.

If I don't implement article 288991, the redirected folders will
automatically become offline folders as they should by default. Also, the
"Make Available Offline" option (found by right-clicking the My Documents
folder) is checked off and grayed out as it should be.

If I do implement article 288991, the My Documents folder is redirected, but
the "Make Available Offline" option is not checked off and is black allowing
me to select the option. If I manually select the "Make Available Offline"
option, synchronization starts, but immediately fails with "Access is denied".

Checking the folders Security tab shows the user has "Special Permissions".
Clicking advanced tab shows the user has "Full Control" of "This folder
only". (This is presumably the result of setting full control to Creator
Owner as the article instructs). The user is listed as the owner and the
"Effective Permissions" shows full control for the user.

If I make the user a Domain Admin, they can then manually make the folders
go offline. Removing the Domain Admin security right allows the offline
folders to be synchronized. This by the way seems to be my only
circumvention to implementing article 288991.

System is Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP1 with Win XP PRO SP2
clients.

Any one know what might be wrong?
 
I should point out that my of my circumvention to make the user a Domain
Admin lasts as long as the local profile remains. If it is deleted or the
user logs onto another workstation, the offline cache is lost once again.
 
Note: A second test of my circumvention to make the user a Domain Admin
resulted in the files automatically going offline cached and didn't require
having to manually click "Make Available Offline" (which btw turned gray) and
remained gray after I removed the Domain Admin security setting.

I noticed that after I removed Domain Admin and logged off and on, I found
the user had access to everyone's offline files on the machine!!

A "gpupdate /force" and reboot resolved that mess however.

Also note that I have found this “bug†on three independent servers.
 
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