In an Active Directory domain environment, you configure the “Prohibit ‘Make Available Offline’ for these files and folders” Group Policy setting to prevent domain users from making files or folders available offline. When this Group Policy setting is applied to a Windows Vista-based client computer, the Always available offline check box is still visible in the Properties dialog box of the network share.

However, when a user tries to make the network share available offline, the action fails. Additionally, the user receives the following error message:

This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the set associations control panel.

Note: The Group Policy setting successfully removes the Always available offline check box on a Windows XP-based client computer.