F
Frankster
Here's a few things I encountered today while doing DST updates. Just
thought some folks might be interested. I just took care of this today. It
was a little more complex than I expected.
MS reference page: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_topissues
The Daylight Savings Time changes start March 11th. Probably oughta be
getting ready now. Vista is good-to-go. XP, W2K, W2K3, Outlook (and others)
will require updates. XP and W2K3 should come from the normal MS Update
site. If not they are easily manually downloaded and applied (follow link
above). No reboot required.
Windows 2000 is a PITA (registry changes). XP SP1 verses SP2 require
different patches for each, but are easy.
Outlook is interesting... This is just FYI for anyone who might be affected.
It turns out that, since MS doesn't support remote PST files (they only
*support* local drive PST files, in case you didn't know that), for those
operations that use remote server-stored PST files (like me) it's a PITA.
The Outlook DST update tool will look for the PST file that the *local
logged on user's* profile is pointing to, and only work on that PST file.
And, it has to be on the local disk. So... if you have remote PSTs, or want
to update one that is not yours (i.e., as Administrator), logon using an
account with NO Outlook PST profile configured (or invalid such as on a
mapped drive). This will result in a prompt where you can point to the PST
file you want to run the utility against. This cannot be on a mapped drive
however, it has to be local. I could not find any way to tell the utility,
upon startup, (via command line switches) what PST file I wanted it to
update.
-Frank
thought some folks might be interested. I just took care of this today. It
was a little more complex than I expected.
MS reference page: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_topissues
The Daylight Savings Time changes start March 11th. Probably oughta be
getting ready now. Vista is good-to-go. XP, W2K, W2K3, Outlook (and others)
will require updates. XP and W2K3 should come from the normal MS Update
site. If not they are easily manually downloaded and applied (follow link
above). No reboot required.
Windows 2000 is a PITA (registry changes). XP SP1 verses SP2 require
different patches for each, but are easy.
Outlook is interesting... This is just FYI for anyone who might be affected.
It turns out that, since MS doesn't support remote PST files (they only
*support* local drive PST files, in case you didn't know that), for those
operations that use remote server-stored PST files (like me) it's a PITA.
The Outlook DST update tool will look for the PST file that the *local
logged on user's* profile is pointing to, and only work on that PST file.
And, it has to be on the local disk. So... if you have remote PSTs, or want
to update one that is not yours (i.e., as Administrator), logon using an
account with NO Outlook PST profile configured (or invalid such as on a
mapped drive). This will result in a prompt where you can point to the PST
file you want to run the utility against. This cannot be on a mapped drive
however, it has to be local. I could not find any way to tell the utility,
upon startup, (via command line switches) what PST file I wanted it to
update.
-Frank
