Offline Files Availability on Continuous Availability Shares

This policy setting determines the behavior of Offline Files on clients connecting to an SMB share where the Continuous Availability (CA) flag is enabled. If you enable this policy setting, the "Always Available offline" option will appear in the File Explorer menu on a Windows computer when connecting to a CA-enabled share. Pinning of files on CA-enabled shares using client-side caching will also be possible. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Windows will prevent use of Offline Files with CA-enabled shares. Note: Microsoft does not recommend enabling this group policy. Use of CA with Offline Files will lead to very long transition times between the online and offline states.

Policy Details

Policy Name

Pol_EnableOfflineFilesforCAShares

Registry Key

Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\LanmanWorkstation

Value Name

AllowOfflineFilesforCAShares

Supported On

At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10

OMA-URI (CSP)

ADMX_LanmanWorkstation/Pol_EnableOfflineFilesforCAShares

OS Build Version:10.0.22000, 10.0.19043.1202, 10.0.19042.1202, 10.0.19041.1202

CSP Version:10.0

Conflict Resolution:LastWrite

Allowed Editions:

EnterpriseEnterprise NProfessionalProfessional NEnterprise EvaluationEnterprise N EvaluationEducationEducation NEnterprise SEnterprise S NEnterprise S EvaluationEnterprise S N EvaluationHolographic BusinessPro Single LanguagePro ChinaPro WorkstationPro Workstation NPro For EducationPro For Education NEnterprisegEnterprisegnServerrdshIotenterpriseIotenterprisesCloudeditionnCloudeditionIotenterpriseskIotenterpriseseval

Policy State Values

Enabled: 1

Disabled: 0

Available Languages

en-us