A newsgroup customer recently asked us how to synchronize his Offline Files with a
server after the server had been renamed. Offline Files in Windows Vista provides
scripting support to enable users to write custom scripts to perform such tasks. To
illustrate this, one of our Offline Files developers created a script that uses the
“rename” functionality offered by the scripting model to rename the path in the local
cache from the old server to the new server. 

I’ve added the script as a blog
article. Use the following syntax to run the script on each affected client.

cscript CscRenameItem.vbs /OldItemPath:\oldserver /NewItemPath:\newserver

Some notes on this operation:

• The script must be run on every client with data cached from the original server.  

• The script doesn’t rename the item at the time it is run.  It merely records
  the “old” and “new” names.  A system restart is required to apply the change. 
  When the system is restarted, Offline Files renames the server entry in the local
  cache according to the parameters provided to the script.  Once the restart is
  complete, Offline Files will automatically synchronize the contents of the cache with
  the server of the new name.

• This processing does not validate the existence of the “new” name provided. 
  If you provide the name of a server that does not exist, the affected files will remain
  in the Offline Files cache, unsynchronized with any server.  

• Our example shows a rename for a server.  The UNC paths provided can also reference
  a shared folder.

You’ll need to restart Windows Vista after successfully running this script. After
the restart, the files cached for \oldserver will
now be cached for \newserver. 

–Jill

The
Filing Cabinet : Updating your Offline Files cache in Windows Vista to point to a
new server

A blog reader recently asked us how to synchronize Offline Files from the command
prompt instead of from the Sync Center as described in a previous
blog post. Good question! Synchronizing Offline Files from the command line is
performed using a WMI script. We have published two example scripts that illustrate
how to do this.

The scripts are:

CscSyncAll.vbs –
Sync the entire cache
CscSync.vbs –
Sync a particular UNC path

Note that most of the text in these scripts is for handling script switches and formatting/reporting
progress. The code to actually perform the sync is relatively little.

–Jill

The
Filing Cabinet : Synchronizing Offline Files from the command line

Inline Search v 1.2 is an extremely useful free add-on for Internet Explorer that
mimics Firefox’s search behavior. It turns searching in a web page into a non modal
research experience coupled with a find as you type facility. It integrates flawlessly
into IE (version 5.5 or above), giving it that little extra that makes you a lot more
efficient when you are looking for a specific piece of information.

Source: IEForge – bends IE
to your will | InlineSearch / HomePage