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#133827 4-Nov-2013 13:11

Hi There!

Can Surface RT make use of Offline Folders? A client is considering one and wants to Sync Word/Excel documents from her desktop "my docs" (No she doesn't want to sync that via the cloud).

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#926963 4-Nov-2013 13:19

Windows RT doesn't support Offline Files/Client Side caching

The preferred work around is to use a new Windows 8.1 RT feature called Work Folders, which replaces this CSC, is much more reliable, synch faster and is mobile broadband aware, is cross-platform but that requires those files to be sitting on a Windows Server 2012 R2 file server

A workaround I've seen other customers use is Schedule Tasks in Windows RT calling a ROBOCOPY command line script

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#926972 4-Nov-2013 13:21

nathan: Windows RT doesn't support Offline Files/Client Side caching

The preferred work around is to use a new Windows 8.1 RT feature called Work Folders, which replaces this CSC, is much more reliable, synch faster and is mobile broadband aware, is cross-platform but that requires those files to be sitting on a Windows Server 2012 R2 file server

A workaround I've seen other customers use is Schedule Tasks in Windows RT calling a ROBOCOPY command line script

Thanks. Server isn't an option (We have played with Work Folders here and it's ok).

I found the robocopy script thing, which may have to be the work around.

Thanks for the assist.

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#927119 4-Nov-2013 17:09

With SkyDrive in Windows 8.1 (Both RT and x86), you can make available any file or folder 'Offline' or 'Online only'. So could just set the files needed to be set to 'available offline'.

Do whatever you want to do man.