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Guest
Hi,
Either I'm being an idiot and doing something wrong or the arrogance of
Microsoft is once more trying to curtail my productivity. Either way, any
help in resolving this issue, or in how to report a bug to these fellas would
be great.
We are migrating to an outsourced exchange service (from an in-house lotus
notes system), owing to the premium costs of using an outsourced exchange
service, we are having to store all data locally (in pst files).
As we use roaming profiles and also (some people) laptops, and want the data
to be backed up, we want to store the data on a fileserver but have this data
available offline (laptop users only).
For some bizarre reason, XP refuses to allow the pst file to be held offline
- claiming that "files of this type cannot be made available offline".
It perfectly allowed us to use Lotus mailbox files offline, with zero impact
on Lotus Notes.
Is there a way around this? Or a method to raise this as yet another
'feature' that is stopping people here working? (such as the 30Mb limit on
personal files that can be roamed in NT4 server - hence the fact we have to
store all our files in offline folders if we want to roam, as opposed to in
their profile area)
Any help appreciated
Note to microsoft - stop trying to make your software clever - all that's
happening is it is becoming less and less flexible. Take a leaf out of the
business operating systems, they allow you to accomplish far more, in less
time.
Either I'm being an idiot and doing something wrong or the arrogance of
Microsoft is once more trying to curtail my productivity. Either way, any
help in resolving this issue, or in how to report a bug to these fellas would
be great.
We are migrating to an outsourced exchange service (from an in-house lotus
notes system), owing to the premium costs of using an outsourced exchange
service, we are having to store all data locally (in pst files).
As we use roaming profiles and also (some people) laptops, and want the data
to be backed up, we want to store the data on a fileserver but have this data
available offline (laptop users only).
For some bizarre reason, XP refuses to allow the pst file to be held offline
- claiming that "files of this type cannot be made available offline".
It perfectly allowed us to use Lotus mailbox files offline, with zero impact
on Lotus Notes.
Is there a way around this? Or a method to raise this as yet another
'feature' that is stopping people here working? (such as the 30Mb limit on
personal files that can be roamed in NT4 server - hence the fact we have to
store all our files in offline folders if we want to roam, as opposed to in
their profile area)
Any help appreciated
Note to microsoft - stop trying to make your software clever - all that's
happening is it is becoming less and less flexible. Take a leaf out of the
business operating systems, they allow you to accomplish far more, in less
time.