I enabled shared configuration for 2 Windows Server 2008 64 bit machines. That appears to work OK.
I then tried to implement offline files to prevent a loss of service whn the common share goes off line. I did make the registry change to make the cache read-only and I loaded the desktop experience...the offline files appear to be operational.
However, when I try to restart the server I get Event ID 9000 (The Application Host Helper Service encountered an error while reading the data for SID mapping. Please ensure that the application pool name data is correct in the configuration file.) and the W3SVC does not start.
I can manually start the W3SVC and everything works OK.
When I remove the configuration share from the offline files, everything starts working again.
Any suggestions will be appreciated