To enable the Always Offline Mode

  1. Open Group Policy Management.

  2. To optionally create a new Group Policy Object (GPO) for Offline Files settings, right-click the appropriate domain or organizational unit (OU), and then click Create a GPO in this domain, and link it here.

  3. In the console tree, right-click the GPO for which you want to configure the Offline Files settings and then click Edit. The Group Policy Management Editor appears.

  4. In the console tree, under Computer Configuration, expand Policies, expand Administrative Templates, expand Network, and expand Offline Files.

  5. Right-click Configure slow-link mode, and then click Edit. The Configure slow-link mode window appears.

  6. Click Enabled.

  7. In the Options box, click Show. The Show Contents window appears.

  8. In the Value name box, specify the file share for which you want to enable Always Offline mode.

  9. To enable Always Offline mode on all file shares, type *.

  10. In the Value box, type Latency=1 to set the latency threshold to one millisecond, and then click OK.